What is this?
This is a draft of a story that I wrote for a school assignment back (estimated) in 1994 when I was in the GEP in Primary 4 in Singapore. That would have made the author, me, about 10 years old at the time. It was done on a typewriter, before our family got our first computer, as there are lots of telltale signs like the ^ key for a missing letter, the overlaid characters, and the manual strikethrough.
I write a bit more about what I know or can conclude about this assignment here, as well as a picture of the piece of paper that I transcribed, so I won’t repeat all that here. Without further ado, my (current) furthest back school assignment that I can find, a Tom and Jerry fanfiction story circa 1994!
Story
Once upon a time, in a seemingly peaceful house like yours or mine, a cat named Tom who was living in it suddenly realised that a large amount of cheese was missing from the larder every day.
He heard a noise behind him and spun around just in time to catch a glimpse of Jerry disappear into his mouse hole.
He was determined to catch Jerry but he knew that that wouldn’t be easy because his cat intuitions told him so.
His first attempt at destroying Jerry was using a mousetrap, but Jerry just used a toothpick to hit the cheese out and the mousetrap destroyed the toothpick instead.
After having a delicious meal of fried cheese, Jerry settled down to sleep but was soon awakened by the heavenly aroma of CHEESE! He woke up with a jump and went to investigate the irresistable smell of cheese in the air. He soon found a block of cheese just outside the larder. On closer in spection, he found Tom lying in wait for him behind the wall. Using another mousehole (He had a houseful of them in the house.) he crept behind Tom and put his tail into a live power socket. While Tom was distracted, Jerry quietly and quickly stole the cheese back to a mousehole and had fried cheese for supper.
After supper, Jerry thought of a plan to get even with Tom. He saw Tom get ready for a nap and when he was sleeping, Jerry pulled Tom out of the house, locked and bolted the door and blocked the chimney and got ready for a nap.
When Tom woke up, he got a shock finding himself outside his house. He got an even bigger shock when he found himself locked and bolted out of his house.
Since he couldn’t enter his house, he went to find another house to live in & Jerry lived happily ever after in his house.
Document dated: 1994 (estimated).