Step in time (Short Story)

written by Keeley Mace

I sent this to my muggle school and won third place in a writing competition: “Paige, you’re finally sixteen so I think it’s time I show you something” and with that, her mother lead her up to the loft, lead her to the corner, where Paige saw a box, it was green with an army pattern and on top, it read ‘john smith’ the name of her grandfather. “What is this mum?” “This is a war box with your great grandfather’s old belongings, the things he had at wartime are in this box.” Paige took one step closer and began to open the box, but all that was there was a bunch of old junk. “why did you wait till I was sixteen to show me this junk” “it’s not junk, it’s the things your great grandfather had when he died”

Last Updated

08/10/21

Chapters

3

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317

No Man's Land

Chapter 2

 


The next thing she knew, she woke up, in a bed, it wasn’t very comfortable, there was a horrible smell surrounding her, it was cloudy, whereas at home it was sunny. “Where am I?” “You are in the trenches” a strange voice replied, he turned around the corner. “so what’s a kid like you doing in the middle of no man’s land? it’s dangerous out here, we thought you were gone” “I’m not sure, one minute I was at home, and I touched a watch, and suddenly everything went black” she was just as confused as the man was. “you mean the watch on your wrist?” she took one glance at her wrist “how did that get there? And it was broken” “okay kid, we don’t have all day, tell me what actually happened” he didn’t believe her, she started tearing up. “I’m telling the truth, I don’t know how I got here, I touched the watch and fainted, then I woke up here, I’m telling the truth” Paige looked around, to see who was near her, it’s like she was in the middle of the war, but that would be impossible. She walked out into the trench, there were men in costumes like the one from the box, constantly walking by her, she didn’t know what to do, she didn’t know how to get home, it was something to do with the watch but how was she supposed to use it to get back? Without hesitation, Paige ran up the ladders onto the surface. “What are you doing?” the man ran after her “first of all I have a name, its Paige, and second of all, I need to get out of here, I can’t really be here, we learn about the world war in history, I’m clearly just dreaming, but I might as well use this as a chance to meet my great grandfather.” “Listen Kid, I wish this was just a dream, but it would be classed as a nightmare, trust me, whatever you believe this is real life, and you will die out there” he seemed really scared. “I live in the year 2019, this can’t be real, this is 1942, I want my mobile, I want my normal clothes, I want my laptop, I need to find a way back home, but for now I want to meet my great grandfather” he seemed confused once again. “what is a mobile and what is a laptop?” “see this is why I need to be back home, so first I need to meet my great grandfather”. She walked along the mud and grass, being careful of the bullets, she hid behind small places, and made her way through the fields, eventually she got to no man’s land, where everyone was fighting, she looked around, but her great grandfather was nowhere to be found. That was until she looked beneath the hill she was stood on, she saw her great grandfather under the hill, and a man was pointing his gun at him, her great grandfather didn’t realise, this is the moment her great grandfather dies, she was about to witness a death her family had grieved. She couldn’t let it happen again, she couldn’t let him die twice, she jumped down the hill and held her arm out in front of her, she stood in front of him and he turned around to see the bullet heading towards the girl’s wrist. Her great grandfather shot his gun at the man, and the bullet that was heading for Paige, soon reached her, but it didn’t hit her, the watch saved her, but it had broken again. “Thanks kid, you saved my life”

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