WRiting Contest #2 - Monologue

Primary Category Winning SUbmissions

My Cross Country Race
By Cadence Liang
First Place, Primary Category

I’m finally old enough to go!

Grade 3 and up!

I’m here!

Warming up: jumping jacks, high knees, and butt kicks.

Look at ALL the schools come together!

“Grade 3 girls, make your way to the starting line”, says the announcer.

I see the spray painted starting line, I step behind it. The coach calls us for a group meeting. She tells me to keep going and try to pace myself. I start to feel nervous. Bad thoughts start coming into my mind: “What if I lose? What if I let everyone down? What if I get last?” I fight the bad thoughts with good and positive thoughts: “Run fast! Try your best, and just go for it!”

Here we go - ready, get set, GO! I start with a sprint to try to get in the front. I hope my friends are not far behind. I see a big hill and I remember what the coach had said. I go for it! I got to the top! Then I see a bigger downhill, my feelings change from tired to relieved! I free down that hill like an apple that’s stale on the outside that finally gets to be cut open. Next, there’s a big gravel part that’s super skinny. All the girls run like a single file line. No room for passing people! Then, once that gravel part ends, a girl zoomed past me! I try to catch up. I can’t, she’s too fast! I’m currently in 3rd place, if I keep it up, I’ll get a medal! A big ginormous grass part where the finishing blue tent is at the end! I push through it! I finally see the parents and coaches saying “You’re almost there!” and “Keep going!”.

They hand me a bronze medal. I can’t believe it! They give me an interview. Then, I see the girl who zoomed past me - it was my friend Amelia from swimming! Her mom takes a photo of us, when we are hugging. I can feel the joy and tiredness that we are both feeling. Oh! And one more thing, if you’re doing a race…

JUST KEEP GOING!

The Tooth Fairy Didn’t Come
By Yuxi Tao
Second Place, Primary Category

[A kid wakes up excited, expecting to find money from the tooth fairy. BUT… the tooth fairy didn’t come. The kid stretches, then remembers their tooth, and lifts up their pillow to see how much money they have.]

Hey! My tooth is still here! What is going on?! Where’s my money?

MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

[The kid walks to their mom’s room with the tooth in their palm.]

Look! The tooth fairy didn’t come! What happened? Was she too tired? Did she skip me because I was being bad? I was NOT bad! Who does she think she is, judging me?!

[After listening to mom for a moment…]

But! But! But! I had to fish that tooth out of my ramen! The noodles were hot, and it burned my fingers a little!

And why me? Even if she comes tonight, now I have to wait another whole day… AND night? That’s like five thousand hours! I’ll probably lose all the rest of my teeth by then!

Do you think she’ll come for SURE tonight? Do you promise? Because I NEED that money. I’m poor. If I’m ever going to buy my own mansion, I need my tooth money.

Mom… if the Tooth Fairy doesn’t show up again tonight, can YOU give me money? Just ten dollars… please?

Space Witch
By Diana Aghamohammadpour
Thrid Place, Primary Category

[Space Witch pulls out her wand and prepares to cast a spell.]

Off to outer space! Five… Four… Three… TWO… ONE! Abracablastoff!

[A portal opens in front of her, and jumps through into outer space.]

First things first. I need to catch that star. [She runs around the stage, chasing a star, and then grabbing it in her hands. She puts it into her potion bottle and corks it.] Gotcha!

Now for the rest of the ingredients in my special potion: purple liquid… then snake scales… polar bear fur. Now, let’s give it a shake.

[She puts down the potion and says some magic words from a spellbook. Open the spellbook to page 75.]

Here it is! [Reading from the spellbook:] Shnazzle dazzle flim flam pow! Turn me into an eraser NOW!

POOF!

[She spins in a circle and then comes to a stop, looking down at herself. Her arms are waving around her.]

HEY! I’m not an eraser. I’m an OCTOPUS! What happened? [She looks at her spellbook.] Oh no! It says to use grizzly bear fur. I used polar bear.

[She shrugs.] Oh well. I guess I’m an octopus for the next 24 hours. I’ll try to be an eraser again tomorrow.

Helper Robot
By Averie Liang
Honourable Mention, Primary Category

The worst thing about being a helper robot is picking up after humans. They always leave food everywhere! Every day, I have to follow people’s instructions. It is so boring! And I can’t believe how lazy they are. Humans would rather drop their food on the ground instead of putting it in the garbage. I am very exhausted! I am always doing laundry because they keep getting jam on their clothes. And I have to drive the humans everywhere because they are too lazy to do it themselves.

They are too lazy to help each other! I don’t have a lot of time to rest, because people always need my help. I don’t have energy to help that many people. People make me do a lot of things like when they want to watch TV, they make me turn on the TV every single day and watch Cocomelon with them. I have to close and open doors when people enter and exit. I also need to find food for them and cook. I always have to do homework for them. I even have to give them food while I am driving for them. I am exhausted and sad, because people always need me to do things quickly. I don’t even have a one minute break. They are forcing me to do everything!

The Worst Haunted House
By Malvina Wan
Honourable Mention, Primary Category

Olivia: Last weekend I went to the worst haunted house. First off the front of the house was wallpapered with pictures of Winnie the Pooh. And the front yard was full of blossoming flowers. Inside the person taking our tickets was dressed as a clown. But not even a scary one. One that was wearing a fruit hat and a bright red nose. There were skeletons but they were fully dressed and wore hats and necklaces. They had a table full of birthday cakes in the entrance hall. And I'm not complaining because they were filled with jelly and absolutely delicious! The hallways weren’t even dusty or full of spiderwebs. Instead it was spotless and the walls were painted in rainbow colours. In the first room I was expecting someone to jump out and say, “Boo!” but the person in the room was playing a cello and singing a pretty song. The next room was supposed to have zombies but the actors forgot their make up so it was just a room full of people moaning and complaining. The last room was the worst. Instead of ghosts in white sheets, they were all wearing bedsheets with Peppa Pig on them. Not scary at all. When we exited, the back yard had gravestones but when I looked closer they were in the shape of hearts and they read, “Luv U!”

I’m never going back to that house again….well maybe for the cakes.