Saturday, 29 April 2017

Ticket to the moon

Here's an article written by one of our writing class students to be included in a brochure advertising moon travel:


Dawn breaks over the lunar landscape, radiant coppery rays of sunlight pierce the darkness to illuminate a beautiful monochrome landscape, filled with deep, dark craters, reflecting off the coarse lunar dust to reveal shadowy figures.  Bulbous gold-coloured domes mask their identities, all of them wearing the same stark white spacesuit, like some kind of sinister -------

Wait, we’re talking about astronauts aren’t we?… Well, anyways, blah blah blah, more epic spooky stuff, let’s get to the point. You can be one of those astronauts. And, I know what you’re thinking: “But random brochure guy, I’m just an average Joe!  I’m not qualified for space!”  Well, with our moon-training programme, you can be! In just three weeks, you’ll be ready to go to the moon!  Experience zero-gravity!  Play space golf! How about leaving footprints that won’t erode?  Or maybe jump twice your normal jumping height?