National Adult Literacy Database

February 14, 2005

The following story was written by Barry Cartwright. Barry is completing his schooling at the Victoria READ Society. He will be going to Camosun College to get his welding papers. Then he will try to get a trade in welding. The hobbies that Barry likes doing are playing sports like football. He likes taking care of his little nephew sometimes with his sister. He would like to go on a trip sometime soon to Hawaii.

 

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When I was Invisible

by Barry Cartwright

My parents and I walked to the park to have a picnic. My dad asked me to go get some firewood for the bonfire. Then I came to a river and I saw shiny quarter in the river that I wanted. I fished it out with a stick. I fell in the river but I got the quarter out. I felt a tingly feeling that went through me. I went to the bank of the river. I bent down to pick the stick up and saw my hand disappearing. I was walking back to the park realizing that my whole body turned invisible. Then I thought I don’t know how to make myself visible again or how long that I will be invisible for. I wonder how I can tell my parents that I’m invisible. This story is how I explained to my parents how I became invisible.