Urchin by Garry Shaw

Author:Garry Shaw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: war, second world war, world war two, WW2, WWII, stories, military, combat, child, children, growing up, wartime, britain, england, uk
ISBN: 9781908382344
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2011-07-11T00:00:00+00:00

Tears on the Moon

It was my own fault I suppose. I broke my own golden rule. Never volunteer for anything at school. A series of events and coincidences conspired together to lure me into doing something really stupid. There was nobody to blame but me.

It all started one morning when we were all shepherded into the assembly hall. “The school board is here” was the whisper that went round. No one knew who, or what, the school board was, only that it was more powerful than all the teachers put together. We were all petrified. Some of the pupils lost control of their bladders and wet the floor. Blind and awesome terror gripped our hearts. What now?

Amazingly, the school board turned out to be four very nice people. They talked to us as though we were human. One lady in particular moved among us trying to gain our confidence. We glanced nervously at the teachers who beamed back like benign piranhas.

The kind lady signalled for silence. “To assess the standard of work, we have arranged a competition. It is for all the schools in the town to take part. There will be grand prizes,” she smiled. “You can submit anything you want - an essay, a poem or painting, some needlework perhaps any piece of work of which you are particularly proud.”

A big cardboard postbox was placed in the corner of the hall. “Just write your name and school on the back and pop it in the box. You have lots of time. It doesn’t close for a while yet.”

MrWrenchgut stood and signalled for applause.

Was it all some sort of trick? To find out what you had been up to outside school hours perhaps? I was very sceptical. The whole thing stank of a trap set by the teachers. I would give it a miss.

Now around this time I had an idea for a story. Whenever I got these urges they would buzz around in my brain and grow until I was half crazy. They just had to be written down and consigned to the box under my bed. This particular idea was about a knight who could tame dragons. It had to come out.

I thought it would be a good idea to write it in verse. I added a couple of lines to each stanza so that every verse grew longer. There is probably a name for this (there’s a name for everything), but I don’t know what it’s called.

Once I started, the pen ran away on its own. It moved much faster than my thoughts. It all seemed to write itself without much help from me. It was an odyssey; an epic. The exercise book filled up in no time without my assistance.

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