We congratulate all of our students whose work was selected for this year's Shared Stories anthology, a joint project between twenty four Victorian regional and metropolitan Catholic secondary schools. This year's theme was 'Live Simply, Simply Live' and featured a diverse range of writing and artwork across all year levels. We are proud to share some excerpts of our student's work:
They are mammoth now Knocking the breath from my chest Bottomless mounds of blue, rising and falling mercilessly Ribbons of silty water twist along the deck Fear is in my mouth and eyes and ears and heart
I am sitting In the corner There is a gust of warm wind And I hug my knees, shivering
Waves spit against the boat And sea spray covers my face like freckles My hunger is a monster Snarling for attention, clawing at my insides
Surely it isn’t much further?
Juliet Guthrie, Year 9
Death and the girl looked at each other for quite some time.
‘Well, you’re here early,’ said Death eventually. ‘I guess so,’ said the girl, ‘shouldn’t you be used to this by now?’ ‘I suppose I should be,’ sighed Death, ‘you don’t seem very frightened.’ ‘Yeah,’ said the girl, ‘I guess it can’t be helped.’
They were standing on a cliff at the edge of a forest. The sun was setting behind a vast skyline of trees, which stirred slightly every once in a while due to a rogue puff of wind. Two birds were singing gaily to each other in the distance.
