The Snake

• James Hagley, Grade 6, St Joseph's School
• Short Story
• 2011

Excellence Award in the 'Step Write Up 2011' competition

It was early in the morning the sun was just coming up. I was just starting to go get some water when thump! I thought that a huge explosion had just gone off in the forest. I look around and saw nothing so I kept on going. I was about 50 meters away from the water when I felt something on my back I turned around and there standing in front of me was a man with a claw like tool. He was trying to put me in a bag. When the man finally got me in the bag I thought he was going to kill me. When I was taken out of the bag I was put in a glass like cage and I was surrounded by about five people, one of the people was the man that took me from the forest. Every day for about a year one of the people always came into where I was and fed me. One day a different boy came in and he feed me some strange food after a while after being feed I felt really sick. A day later the people put me back into a bag and took me to a vet. I stayed at the vet for about a week until the vet took me out to the forest and then released me. Then I stayed in the forest ever since.