lucky escape...by Tamsyn

The car stopped suddenly. "Alice!" I shrieked, "The car!! It won't move!! We're stuck on a train track, in a car with a train heading for us!!" The flaming crimson train was gaining on us, inch by inch. The train had a face as large as an elephant, with a menacing, granite horn that violently hooted deadly steam. As the colossal ruby train heaved effortlessly towards our harmless peeling, painted, rusty car, I braced myself for the big collision, when suddenly, it didn’t come. Daring to look, I turned in my tatty car seat and looked out the foggy window...