Mini Saga Winners - 2011

A MINI SAGA is a short story in 50 words. It takes great skill with words to keep to this word limit and to use irony and suggestion to say without saying. The following sagas won the competition held among the A1 Language students. Kudos and congratulations to them!

Forbidden

By Zoha Jabbar.

She was seventeen when she first entered his classroom. He was thirty-two. It was wrong, yes; but oh, how the sunlight framed her. They were spellbound. He was fired, she was disowned, but it didn't matter. They wed on her eighteenth birthday, and how the sunlight framed their intertwined forms.

The Survivor

By Shumaila Abbasi

"I am sorry to say that you have cancer and only six months left to live."

The words of the doctor shocked Anne. She could not believe what she had heard.

Three years later, Anne told her inspiring story of survival to a number of cancer patients.

Death

By Junaina Junaid

Something tastes peculiar in my mouth. Grime? Soil, maybe? I need some water..

As i head down the stairs, my attention is diverted by the reflections in the mirror at the landing.

Everythings reflected. Except for me..

"Bilal!" I cry out to my husband as he walks straight through me...

Ashes To Ashes

By Farwa Haider

Dust and grime covered every inch of the house's interior.The floor-boards creaked. The rats scurried by.

Were they the only inhabitants? That is what Cassie wanted to know.

Nothing unusual was sensed.

Three hours later, Cassie muttered "No ghosts here".

A voice whispered "Don't be too sure".