Junior Short Story - Best Overall

The South Simcoe Arts Council has been shining a spotlight on up and coming writers of all ages, in all genres through its Creative Works Writing Contest since 2016.

We are excited to share the winners writings with you. Enjoy!

This award is sponsored by
John Williams.

Space Cat

One day as I was eating breakfast with my brother, I had a great idea. I was going to be the first girl to ever go to space in a purple outfit. I started to think how I was going to get enough craft supplies to make a spaceship. I needed a lot of googly eyes and paper to make a whole ship, and I started to think maybe it's not the best idea to go to space. But I still did it anyway. So that day I went to the dollar store and got 99,258,190 googly eyes and like 79 pieces of paper. Right when I got home, I got to work. It is very hard to build a rocket. I noticed that in the first couple of seconds.

I went on a walk. I went all around the park. When I saw this adorable dog, I went closer and closer until I saw that she looked familiar and went up to talk to her. She explains how she is me from the future and starts to say how I can't get a cat. She says how I train it to be the strongest cat in the world. I said, "Ok I won't. But do you want to stay over tonight?" She said sure, so we went home and continued to build the rocket together when older me said, "Why are we building when we could just poof one up?" "We can't just magically make it," I said wiping the sweat off my face. Right when I looked over, older me had already built a rocket. So, I did what any ten- year-old girl would do, I bought a cat.

Older me wasn't a fan so she made me go and return my cat. I was sad. Then she made me buy a stupid old dog and, of course, I named it pumpkin and brought him to space. I made a pink outfit for older me, a purple outfit for me, and we made our way to space. On our way to space we saw planets and stars and all sorts of cool stuff. Older me wanted to land on the purple planet, so we did. I have no idea how to fly a plane, so we crashed.

We saw these weird things that kind of looked like strawberries, so I went closer. They were strawberries, so we ate them until we noticed they had this weird orange seed inside them.
We quickly started spitting the strawberries out when this alien thing comes up to us and mumbles "Are you new? My name is Jerry and I'm a berry alien. There are many types of aliens, but berries are the best.'' We ran back in the rocket and went home never to go to space
again.