I’m a mineral

By: Omshreya Swain, Massachusetts.

 It was a regular day until I saw the shadow of a hand. I

wanted to scream for help but nobody would hear me

because I am a small mineral. The hand put me in a plastic

baggie. Soon the hand put me in a leather bag. I slowly

drifted off to sleep. I started to have a weird dream that I

was being scraped on a tile. Then I opened my eyes the

hand was dissolving me against an unglazed tile. But it

didn’t hurt, I actually felt like I was getting tickled. Soon I

felt as if I was getting boiled then I looked at myself and

saw that I was bubbling!  I realized that I was getting

tested so the hand could find out what mineral I am.  After

quite some time I saw a huge eye looking at me through a

round glass for a long time. Then for the first time I noticed

that the hand was writing something on something white.

Soon I saw a big bright light being shined on me. It was

brighter than the sun. I thought I was going to became

blind but fortunately the hand took the light away and

scribbled something on the white square. Just when I

thought the craziness was about to end the hand started

to scratch multiple materials on me. The scratching caused

a lot of pain because the materials were digging into my

“skin”. But finally it all stopped. The hand picked me up in

the gentlest way and placed me in a glass case. I think I

deserved that after all the tests the hand ran on me. Then I

looked on the clipboard and saw the white square

practically looking like granite scribbled with information

about me from the testes. The hand had filled out pages of

information about me! The hand wasn’t that bad. So my

fellow minerals remember if you get grabbed and tested

on, appreciate it.