An Award-Winning Story

[Sarah-Leia]

This is a story that my class last year had to write for English. Having just seen a play called Hitler's Daughter, about the fictional daughter of, um, gee, I don't know, Adolf Hitler!?, my teacher told us to write a short story depicting the fictional child of a celebrity. Any celebrity. Madonna, Picasso, King George V...I chose Carrie Fisher :lol:.
Anyway, we wrote our stories and our teacher told us to send them into a creative writing state-wide competition run by the theatre that showed the play. Some of us did, Hannah did, I did. Hannah ended up winning 1st place :w00t: and I won second! :happydance: (I am actually not jealous of Hannah :wink:) Hopefully Hannah will post her story here (it is astoundingly good)...but anyway, here's mine!

*EDIT* Oh, yeah, and another English teacher asked Hannah and I to put our stories in this year's school magazine! Yay! (Apparently it's a really big deal, this magazine, hard cover and everything...)

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Thanks for sharing that Sarah, very interesting and well written! :) Well done on winning 2nd place, Hannah's story must be superb to beat that.

I have a question, not sure whether there will be an answer for it or not. It just popped into my mind after I had read it. Why did Rosa think that her Dad would kill her? I understand that he had killed 3 other young girls, but this was his own flesh and blood. Of course, the story does not tell us the circumstances in which these murders were committed.

Trust Carrie to pick a bad husband eh? :lol:

[Cydon]

Very interesting Sarah, I was hooked from the beginning!

[Emalin]

I second...erm, I mean...third that. Very well written, Sarah! I can see why it won an award! :D

[Cydon]

I fourth that! Err...wait a minute.

[sharyntyre]

interesting bit.

[Sarah-Leia]

Thanks for sharing that Sarah, very interesting and well written! :) Well done on winning 2nd place, Hannah's story must be superb to beat that.

I have a question, not sure whether there will be an answer for it or not. It just popped into my mind after I had read it. Why did Rosa think that her Dad would kill her? I understand that he had killed 3 other young girls, but this was his own flesh and blood. Of course, the story does not tell us the circumstances in which these murders were committed.

Trust Carrie to pick a bad husband eh? :lol:

Thank you! Yes, Hannah's is absolutely superb. And it's longer than mine. Hmm...now, let's see...I guess the shock of the news just gave Rosa paranoia. I guess what also contributes to this is that Rosa never really knew her father. She didn't grow up with him and so does not know his personality. The circumstances in which the murders were committed...hmm...I honestly don't know!!
Yes, trust Carrie to do that.

I actually like the play script of this story better (we had to perform it in English)...should I upload it here? Yeah. Hang on. There you go.

[Cydon]

I like the script better also.

[Jedi Master Harrison]

Thank you! Yes, Hannah's is absolutely superb. And it's longer than mine. Hmm...now, let's see...I guess the shock of the news just gave Rosa paranoia. I guess what also contributes to this is that Rosa never really knew her father. She didn't grow up with him and so does not know his personality. The circumstances in which the murders were committed...hmm...I honestly don't know!!
Yes, trust Carrie to do that.

I actually like the play script of this story better (we had to perform it in English)...should I upload it here? Yeah. Hang on. There you go.

I think the play script allows the reader to be more involved with the story and does make the reasons a bit clearer. I also think it is better - and the story was good as it was! :)

[Sarah-Leia]

I think the script is better because I had more time to write it. The story was a 1-week thing, finished off at 12 AM, right before the deadline for submitting it, well, actually, I remember writing the whole script at 2 in the morning (yes, Hannah, that's what I sacrificed for our group, my much-needed sleep).