Shortlisted
The Gobi Desert
Clearwater Bay School, Rhea Saxena, Fiction: Group 1
T
he sky was pale blue with fluffy clouds making shapes above the Gobi Desert. There was
a brown bear living in a cave, a dark spooky cave. Her name was Roygbiv. She liked to
sing and dance when she was a bored.
One afternoon, Roygbiv went to search for fire wood to cook vegetable soup. She went
to the forests and looked for trees to cut with her axe. She was shocked, there were no trees, the
forest looked bare. She felt sad and unhappy. She would not be able to cook vegetable soup.
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw footprints. Slowly and curiously, she followed them to a
circle of yurts. When she got there, Roygbiv, nervously knocked on the door. Anxiously he talked
to tell them about the problem. The Nomads welcomed her into a discussion. They decided that
every time they cut a tree down they would plant a new one. She felt happy but she still did not
have her vegetable soup. The nomads gave her some of their wood to cook her vegetable soup.
Then peeping through the clouds. She saw a wonderful rainbow with Red Orange Yellow Green
Blue Indigo Violet. The rainbow she was named after Roygbiv!
