Yowie Hunter

• Alex Hawking, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2017

As Eric sat there with the large silver plate stuck to his face, wet fish in his pockets and his back
covered with sticky notes that said things like “Kick me” and “Nerd”, he couldn’t help but wonder
how he ended up this situation. Just one hour ago he had been sitting at a desk in the mall
gathering donations for the salvation army in his big red cup. Then he had seen the local bullies
and rattled off a list of insults which he had made with his shakespeare insult list. The bullies,
suspecting something was, off ditched a mug at him which then knocked him out. That was an
hour ago, now he had to get this plate off his face using only the things in his pockets which where;
a parrot USB, a balloon, a bouncy ball and some loose change. But first he had too get a Yowie.