Tom’s Toboggan

TOM # 1

Whoosh! “Almost there Cristie” yelled Tom from half way up Mount Everest. Cristie was Tom’s pet snow dog who he had carefully built the day before at the top of Mount Everest.

Pale white cardboard flakes began to slowly flutter onto Tom’s head. He wore one purple polkadot jacket, a stripy polar fleece, a checkered shirt and a pink waterproof jacket. As he climbed his nose was dripping snot like icicles hanging from trees. Eventually he reached the top.

“Cristie, where are you?” screeched Tom, but he was nowhere to be seen. Beginning to panic Tom quickly created a new and even better Cristie. Just as he stepped back to admire his work he tripped and fell into his red toboggan and went rushing down Mount Everest.

At the bottom there was a C shaped ramp as big as fifty elephants which he was heading straight for. He had no time to react and was launched into the air where he landed in a pine tree back on the top of the mountain.

Suddenly the sun burst out from behind the trees and slowly began to melt the newest Cristie he had made. Drops fell from Cristie like tears of sadness. Tom was so frustrated he picked up his toboggan, trudged down Mount Everest and booked the first flight to Antarctica. “I can’t wait to have you back Cristie” Tom dreamed.