Lost

by: Zachary Walters

Lost

by: Zachary Walters

On one snowy night in a cabin in the woods, lived Tom and Nanuk. It was getting colder, and Nanuk was loving it because he was a Siberian husky. As Tom put more wood on

the fire, it got darker outside.

The windows were starting to fog up, and it was getting later.

Around 10:30 p.m., Nanuk wanted to go outside for his last time before

bed. Tom got up from his recliner and put

his cup of hot tea down. He let Nanuk outside and placed him on his lead

chain.

Tom closed the door fast so that the cold didn’t take over the warmth.

Tom sat back down and grabbed his tea. He began to read the newspaper. Tom sipped his tea and read the car

section because his car was on its last leg.

Tom got down to the last line of the section, and he closed his eyes.

The room got brighter when he opened his eyes again, and he was

freezing. It was morning, and he went outside to get wood for the fire. As he walked outside it hit

him, “Where was Nanuk?”

Tom frantically thought about what he had done, “I didn’t bring Nanuk

in!”Tom’s heart was like a runner at the Olympics trying to get to first place. He ran outside, got his coat and left

to go find Nanuk.

About twenty yards from the house, Tom found a broken chain

lead and picked it up. Then he walked a bit and saw that Nanuk

had broken off the chain by running it around a tree. Tom

called out and yelled, “Nanuk”, but nothing moved.

He walked along a while before he got tired and sat down to rest on a fallen

tree. Tom pulled out from his coat pocket a

lighter, broke off the branches, put them in a bundle and lit them.

Tom sat there for a good while as the fire snapped, crackled and popped. He

put out the fire, and then he left. Tom walked until he saw four paw

prints in the snow. He knelt down and looked at the paw

prints.

In the distance, he could see that an old house was there.

Tom walked over to a tree about twenty feet away from the house and

looked at the house.

Tom could see Nanuk and called out, “Nanuk boy!”

Nanuk stood up and ran out of the old rundown house into the arms of

Tom. Tom and Nanuk went back to their cabin and lived happily ever after.

Zachary Walters is a sophomore at

the Lawrence County Career and Technical Center.

Zachary is enrolled in the

auto technology program. Zachary is from the New

Castle Area School District.