Under The Rug

• Samara Eeles, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2007

It was a cold dark night, Leonardo had just come home from work. He was cooking dinner and watching the news. Then he saw something on the news that caught his eye. It was about a small creature called a wurum-burum, it had entered the town. It was fluffy and had sharp claws.

Long years passed, the article on the news was on every day. They still had not captured it. It was puzzling, many years passed but they still hadn’t found it. Then it happened, Leonardo heard a smash in the hallway. It was his fathers antique 14th century lamp, the wurum-burum had entered the house. Leonardo picked up the chair and held it above his head and loudly slammed it into the ground. He had got it; he had actually killed the wurum-burum. Leonardo was a hero.

The media came to his house; he was on TV and on a magazine called “Roth Nixon Magazine”. It was great, Leonardo was famous. And then he heard it again.




By Samara Eeles age: 10 address: 6 valonia avenue surrey hills 3127 Victoria
Grade 5 home phone: 9849 0743
E-mail: seeles@msn.com.au
Story title: UNDER THE RUG

Surrey Hills Primary School
Beatrice Avenue
Surrey Hills VIC 3127
Phone: 03 9890 1560
Contact Teacher: Victoria Hall
Fax: 03 9899 6086
Email: hall.victoria.a@edumail.vic.gov.au