WRITING OBSTACLE
Write a selection of diary entries by someone who has been abducted by aliens.
Try to convey your character's emotional state through each entry, whilst advancing a plot. How do they handle their situation?
Help I’ve Been Abducted
Help. I’ve been abducted by aliens.
I have no idea how you’re reading this. Did it float out into space somehow? Am I dead and you found it on me? Did I escape and get back to earth and now you’re reading this, Aria? (If it is you, Aria, get your little sister nose outta my business and SCRAM! I MEAN IT! WHY HAVE YOU NOT YET? GO! YOU BETTER NOT READ THE NEXT SENTANCE! OR ELSE! UH OH, YOU READ THE NEXT SENTANCE. YOU WILL DIE NOW.)
Anyway, the abduction happened just last night. I was admiring the stars when POW! WHOOSH! I was floating in the air like some dumb cow from an alien abduction movie. Stupid livestock. I ended up in a cell and I’ve been fed a whole bunch of weird food. I’m with a whole bunch of other animals — a dog, cat, moose for some reason, tiger and sheep, but I’m the only human. The aliens (who are way bigger than me, I’m like a mouse to them) are keeping a close eye on me and one has a clipboard. I think it’s cute. I’ve learned to recognize specific words now and they keep trying out new foods. So far none of them are tasty. Are they fattening me up to eat me?
Ok, so tonight I figured out what they’re doing with me. They’re selling me as a pet with all those other animals! I tried to ask an alien, but he doesn’t understand me. Anyways, he figured out what I was trying to say in the end and drew a picture… thank goodness pictures are literally a universal language.
I found a food I like that resembles pizza… I guess. They jumped up and down when I ate it and shouted something along the lines of, “More PIZZA!” In their language. Or whatever they call pizza… I think they’re trying to train me? They kept pointing at the pizza and making one specific sound so I tried to replicate it and they started jumping up and down and screaming. /= {. I’m fairly sure they’re actually girls. This is just like when my girl friends trained Hailey’s parrot, Polly, to actually say “My name is Polly.” I’ve tried to escape but I’m starting to think it’s hopeless. I’ve just decided that I’ll go with the flow and take the opportunity to escape if it comes.
Today we arrived at the aliens planet. They brought all us Earthlings (animals and human) to a very big pet shop. I feel like a little hamster, and I guess that’s how they see me. I’m like, I dunno, a ferret.
A family of five came in today…. They looked like a normal family, but giant and … aliens. Anyway, they bought me and brought me home which looked like a wierd, futuristic version of a house. The three little kids wanted to play with me so I chased the ball they were throwing and clearly wanted me to chase. It’s really not so bad here.
Although, I am getting sick of pizza.
I’m running out of room in this book… I showed it to the aliens in hope that they would get me more and they found it adorable, but that’s all. Haha… I feel like a dog that’s being really cute. If I get home, I’ll look at Bona a lot differently. Then again, I kinda like it here. But I puked up my pizza today, so I will try to escape if they don’t start feeding me different food.
I have been learning the language. But as long as I’m a pet in an alien home, I suppose that I should say what I can do. I can sit, lie down, shake and roll over.
Go ahead. Laugh. It is kinda funny.
This will be my last entry. I have no more room and I’ve given up hope for escape. But at least they’re feeding me a variety of foods now.
I have no idea how you found this and I hope that I managed to get back home safely and it’s not like I tried to get out and they found this on my body.
But I feel hopeful for the future. I don’t really mind this life and I’ve come to accept it. After all, I have no school.
The idea that I’m a pet in an alien enviourmment is still kinda funny. Not laughing. However, it’s a little boring.
Maybe I’ll draw on the walls.
See you never.
Sincerely, Farah.
P.S. Aria, if you’re reading this, those are my hands around your neck.