John Marsden Writing Topic #297
You wake up and find you have a new scar on your body…**
The Lost Hour
It was lighter outside than usual when my alarm screamed at me to wake up.
When I looked at my phone, I saw that it was 9am instead of 8am. It wasn’t daylight savings, I didn’t change my alarm settings, I had literally lost an hour of my life!
I looked down at myself and saw I was still in my pyjamas but my hair was scruffy with leaves in it and I had bruises all over me both green and yellow, and I had a black eye and a “Z” shaped scar on my right arm. I clearly got into a fight in my lost hour of sleep but I can’t find any evidence on my battered body of who it was with.
There’s only one way to find out what happened to me…time to get up.
**Reference: Marsden J 1998, Everything I Know About Writing, Pan Macmillan, Australia.
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