For the next few days, you can listen to a couple of stories every single day.

And That’s because on our podcast we will have some special storytellers!! We have middle and high school students who through the summer have been learning about how to craft their own stories and then produce them on a podcast.

Free activity sheet available at www.rituvaish.com/podcast-summer-camp. Let’s give a warm welcome Ananya J

Transcript

The Time Traveller’s Backpack

I am Ananya and I have been a part of story writing and podcasting

summer camp 2025 organised by Ms.Ritu Vaish, the producer of story

prism podcast. I had a great time writing my own stories, recording and

editing them. Here’s the one I wrote: Please give me your listening ear

Maya was just a normal 12 year old girl who had long hair, and she is a

little pale. She loved adventures and always dreamt of time travel. One day

, while walking home from school she was just normally kicking rocks , and

pebbles as she was thinking about flying cars, and humanoid robots. But

there was a huge tree and underneath the tree there was a shiny object.

She darted to check what it was , and it was a backpack , but not the usual

ones. It had glowing buttons , tiny screens , and a big green button which

said ‘GO’ on it.

Her eyes sparkled , curious, Maya kept the bag on. As soon as she pressed

the button the world around her twisted and spun like a colourful tornado!

When everything stopped , Maya found herself in a strange place. The

trees were taller than the houses , and the mountains were shorter than

usual. Dinosaurs roamed in the distance.

‘ I went back in time! ‘ Maya gasped with a mixed feeling of nervousness

and excitement. She explored the park. The ponds were bigger than lakes,

and there were houseflies which buzzed around. Suddenly her eyes

popped up when she saw a huge dinosaur, so she quickly hid behind a

huge rock.

Carefully, Maya gave it a piece of fruit from her lunch box to the baby

dinosaur. It thanked Maya

Just then the backpack beeped “ Low Battery. Must Return in 5 minutes.”

Maya didn't bother about it much. She was busy playing with her new

dinosaur friend.

Then she noticed that she forgot to return back as the backpack was

beeping. She panicked and did not know what to do.The dinosaur asked

Maya to follow him. Maya got confused and just followed him.

The dinosaur took her to a secret and mysterious cave. She was confused.

Then Maya and Dinosaur went through the obstacles, and they both

pressed a button together. Then they found a new bag. The dinosaur

asked her to put it on. Maya thanked the dinosaur and said goodbye. She

put on her bag and reached the same place where the old bag was. With

that Maya was ready for her next adventure.