The Story of Twinkle

Outline, First Draft

Twinkle the star is shining up in the night sky. Suddenly he comes loose out of ‘the fabric of space’ and falls down to the Earth where he [comes into collision with a satellite, a plane, and a seagull?] falls into the ocean against a rock knocking him out cold.

After he regains consciousness, a fish asks him what he is. He doesn’t know. She makes some suggestions of sea life, but none of them sound familiar. She suddenly realizes what he could be, and takes him to see the starfish.

They look him over from head to toe, and determine he isn’t one of them and tell him and the fish to leave. After some crying and despair, the fish comforts twinkle and promises to figure out what he is. Just then a large octopus climbs over the top of the cliff’s edge they have been resting on. It gives chase to the two as the fish scoops up twinkle and makes a dash for the surface of the water where the octopus can’t swim.

But not quick enough, as the octopus swipes the two back down, the fish falling into a rock and passing out, and twinkle falling into a deep crevice. Twinkle seems helpless having fallen so far from his friend, who is now in danger of being eaten by the octopus. He calls after it to leave her alone, and it does, however it is now coming down after him. He doesn’t know what to do, so he covers himself in fear. This causes him to glow so intensely the octopus is blinded and flees.

The fish, having regained consciousness from twinkle’s yelling, had seen the whole thing and now knows what he is. She takes him to the surface where she shows him the ‘diamonds in the sky above the world so high’, and he realizes he is indeed one of them. He says goodbye to his friend reluctantly, receiving a kiss, and heads back to outer space where he places himself back into the ‘fabric of space’ a little more firmly this time.

There's my version of the story, see what you can come up with!

~Gord