One is One and All Alone

Nicholas Fisk's short story," One is One and All Alone" is founded on dialogue and diary.

I wonder why are the short stories for the new Form One and Form Two this time around is inferring from diary entries particularly ' Flipping Fantastic". In this story there is dialogue thrown in between the protagonist and a machine called the Voice-Printer besides diary entries of the girl,Trish and the clone,Clo.

Premised on the process of cloning and inter-stellar travel, there is a better twist to this story as compared to the dour' Flipping Fantastic'.

 Let us go to the plot-line of this short story.

A  little girl on a two year journey to a space station bored out of her wits decided to use the space-ship lab to clone herself with the help from a machine called the Voice-Printer. Having a clone as a companion was fun at first but soon the clone wore the girl down. She was so fed up that she decided to get rid of the clone. However, there is a twist to the story.

As clones can think alike, it was Clo who actually got rid of Trish by dumping her outside the space-ship as space rubbish. She then took on the role of Trish for the rest of the journey.

Just like, 'Flipping Fantastic' there is little that is fascinating in this short story  to hold and sustain  the interests of the students, I am sure.