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→ descriptive writing - dramatic scene

double updates in a row can u believe ?!

we did an extract about the bombing of a town.
task: use 150-200 words to write a description of another dramatic event (real or imaginary) where a peaceful environment is suddenly disturbed.

i genuinely am so proud of myself for this.

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Sunlight gently caressed the surface of an anthill. The morning glow illuminated the lines of marching bugs, toiling away regardless of the time of day; the veins of a beating heart. A fresh breeze whispered past, carrying with it a gleeful laugh.

The insects hustled and bustled, even as the earth pulsed, steady and strong. It thrummed in sync with the footsteps of the ants, spurring them on. Then the pulses turned to throbs, and the throbs turned to tremors, and the tremors turned to thunders.

A shrieking giggle pierced through the air, followed by an earth-shaking convulsion that decimated the great mound of dirt. Now, in place of a heartbeat, is a boy's muddy shoes. He kicked and trampled and skipped; the ants scrambled and scurried and sprinted, their silent screams unheard as the boy's laughter carried through the air like birdsong. The veins ruptured with an outpour, soaking the grassy field in red.

With his cheeriness died down, the boy picked up his boot curiously, prodding wide-eyed at a tiny, twitching ant with his finger.

At his mother's distant call, he waddled away, as a chick to a hen, leaving the broken and mutilated bodies in his wake.

Sunlight gently caressed the surface of a grassy field.