I get stepped on. Water runs over me. My skin tans in the sun. Snow crunches on me, and the wind rolls me around.

Then one day a bright face comes. He picks me up and takes me home.

Then I’m dropped off again in the desert wastelands I’ve roamed.

Austin Howell is a Junior in high school in the beautiful city of Colorado Springs. When he graduates he plans to become a Youth Pastor and pursue a job in ministry. Writing is one of his favorite things to do!

Austin is part of a creative writing class from Liberty High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, that wrote fifty-word stories and submitted them as a group.