Original Short Stories written by Student Ananya Krishna

Ananya is 10 years old young writer from Chennai. We are proud to have her as a student of the Little Writers Program, an Online Creative Writing Program using Applied Storytelling & Theatre tools under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Ananya for this exemplary true self-expression.

1.The Star’s Wish

In the tiny village called Stalfy village, instead of humans, stars live there.

It was a snowy, icy, and frosty winter on Christmas. The roofs were snowy. All living things were freezing. Heavy snowballs used to come every 10 minutes. The temperature turned to 0 degrees. Small houses submerged under the snow. The submerged house owners were living in their neighbor’s house. Water in the pipelines got frosted. There was no use in using the fridge. The air conditioner and fans got frosted and stuck. The heaters were not working. The gardens were of no use because they also submerged along with the houses.

Suddenly the sun came, and the 0 degrees turned into normal. Everyone was happy. In that village of stars, there lived a star girl named Lisa. She always used to wear a hooded coat, scarf and earmuffs even the weather is hot as fire. She walks as slow as tortoise and runs slower than walking.

She had a dream to climb up the biggest Christmas tree in the nearby town on the day of Christmas and sit on top of it and see the view from there. But the city is so far and also, she walks as slowly as a tortoise and runs slower than walking.

On Christmas night on her way to the city to climb the biggest Christmas tree there, she got tired and collapsed. When Santa Claus came there to keep Christmas presents for the kids in the city, he saw Lisa collapse in the middle of the street. So, he took Lisa and went to his home. Santa asked her what was happened. She explained to Santa her wish and she slept at Santa’s house as she was too tired.

Santa smiled and took Lisa to the top of the biggest Christmas tree while she was sleeping. The next morning, it was Christmas day, Lisa woke up from her sleep and she saw that she was on top of the biggest Christmas tree. Lisa saw the beautiful view from there as she wished. She was very happy. she said, “thank you Santa, finally my wish is fulfilled.

2. The Food Stall

Once there lived a girl, named Clara. She always used to enquire about whatever there in her hands. She never trusts anything so easily!

One day, she was playing volleyball with her friends on the coast. They got tired. They did not have water to drink! Then they heard the sound of a food stall ice cream coming. Everyone saw that and went there.

They saw the shopkeeper covering himself with black clothes. Clara thought something is wrong and going to happen. So, she asked the shopkeeper to open the ice cream box. She saw that the ice cream was slimy and smelled bad! Clara whispered to her friends about it and they did not trust anything. One of them said, ‘for one hour we were starving. This is the chance to give out our thirstiness’. Everyone, except Clara, went to the ice cream stall and bought and ate the ice cream.

Clara spotted a milkshake stall and she enquired about everything. It was perfect and she bought and drank the milkshake. Then she saw, her friends dying! Then they knew that the shop keeper tricked them. It was not real ice cream, it was poison.

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