On February 27, Holy Cross Junior High School received a wonderful surprise from scholastic “Scope” magazine. Our very own seventh grader Brian Mathieu submitted a piece of writing earlier to fine that it had been published under “Having Your Say.”
Congratulations Brian! Keep on writing! Below you will find Brian’s story.
TO STAY COOL
It is four in the morning and the sun has already risen to make the heat unbearable to the human skin. A man slowly walks through the hot desert alone for he has lost his tour group a mile away. In need of water, the poor man suffers from dehydration, anxiety, and hallucinations. The man’s back is frying for he had to take off his shirt to cover his head. Luckily, the man is wearing shoes. The miles and miles of burning sand would have burned his feet until he couldn’t walk another inch.
After a few hours, the man falls to the ground where he looks up to see the scorching heat coming off the sand that is now burning his body. he starts to dig in search of cool sand to rest for the night.
When morning comes he notices that while sleeping, there was a sandstorm and he was buried up to his neck, frying in the hot sand unable to move. While trying to figure out how to get out, he notices about half a dozen black birds flying over the sky, circling high over him. Three of them come down and start pecking at him; then the rest start coming down and fighting with the other birds, when all of a sudden he hears a gunshot and the birds fly away. he notices the large vehicles coming toward him. (It was his group coming to get him).
They went back to the site and gave him medical attention. Now, to this very day, he is still living in an apartment building in New York.
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