Medusa by Caitlin

Once upon a time there was a beautiful maiden named Medusa. Medusa lived in the city of Athens in Greece. There were many pretty maidens in Athens, but Medusa was claimed to be the most lovely.

Each day she boasted about how beautiful she was and each day they became more and more outrageous.


Every day she awoke from her beauty sleep and went downstairs to get breakfast.

After she had eaten, she went back up to her room. She gazed in her mirror at her pretty face while brushing her glowing hair.


After her hair was silky smooth, she left her house and walked into town.

She walked into the blacksmith's and boasted about the colour of her eyes. Then she would walk to the food stalls where the town's people were selling fresh fruit. She would brag about how her skin glowed brighter than a polished ruby.


She would go all over town boasting about how she was more elegant than a swan or that her hair was shinier than the glittering green sea.

Then she would come home and her father would ask her to fetch water for his horses from the well.

She would walk up the grassy hill to the well. She would sit on the edge of the well gazing at her reflection in the water for hours on end. Often she would forget to get the water so her father's horses were thirsty.

By the time she had come back to the house, her father had cooked supper. She sat down at the table and started eating.


After supper, she sat by the toasty fire on a comfy chair and read her book. She read a few chapters and then went into the bathroom and had a relaxing candle bubble bath.


Once she had finished she went upstairs, got dressed in her night gown and blew out the candle. Then the cycle starts all over again.


One day she went to the temple of the goddess who looked over Athens. Many other maidens went too.


When she got there she looked at the paintings and said,
"I bet that the painter would have done better capturing my beauty".

Then she walked over to the fountain and said,
"I could sculpt better than that!" Then she walked around the temple looking at her face in the golden walls.


Just then, the face of the goddess appeared! She boomed,
"So you think that you are prettier than me!"
"Well, um, no not particularly", stumbled Medusa.
"Well, all your life you did not pay any attention to anything but your beauty. So, now I shall take that away from you!" screamed the goddess.
"No! no! Please don't"! begged Medusa.
"No you can not persuade me and now I shall turn you into a horrible monster!" Then in a click of a finger, she turned into a Gorgan! Everybody fled from the temple screaming.

Ferocious snakes bit at each other upon her head and her eyes flashed red.


"If anybody dares to look at you they will turn to stone and even if you look at your own ugliness you too shall turn to stone!"said the goddess.

"What are you going to do me?" squeaked Medusa in a frail voice.
"I shall banish you too the end of the universe!"
"Oh no don't you think that's a little harsh?" said Medusa with a little more confidence.
"Silence!" shouted the goddess.

In a blink of an eye Medusa disappeared never to be seen again!

Caitlin's Personification Piece

L.I. Use personification in my writing


I am a shell. I lay on the golden sand as it covers me all over as if it’s burying me alive. My body is as black as charcoal and I have stripes as white as ivory. The glittering green sea scoops me up in his big, wet hands and pulls me out deep into the darkest nooks and crannies of the ocean. The flaming sun burns me up until I’m pieces of ash.

As I fall down and down to the bottom of the sea fish fly past as if they're jets. Sea slugs suck at the rocks. Crabs nip at the slimy stones. Dolphins leap out of the water like racing cars going over a speed bump. Jellyfish bob up and down side to side like they have no brain. Sharks flash a toothy grin. Octopi wave their tentacles all over the place, getting stuck to everything they get to close to.

I hit the bottom of the world. I am a shell, but I am not a shell.