The winning story in ISEB’s 2024 Time to Write competition, Seed of Life is a beautifully constructed story about a child who finds himself catapulted 120 years into the future. What he finds there is a ruined earth, but what can an 11-year-old boy like Sirius do about it? This is a story about new beginnings and a warning to us all to look out for our planet while we are in it.