Zip It

• Joshua Platts, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2016

“Be quiet!” I roared as a monster sized tongue was launched at my fore head. The monster frog, small and smart as it was, shot back into the pound as if it was Tarzan
I slipped through the stainless steel framed window and followed it into the agile filled pond. I was sure that kit grinned at me with its large and insignificant jaw of fly guts.
I called it STICK IT. Most frogs are small and stupid as they seem but STICK IT was the opposite of that hi was massive and brainy.
After I got to the pond I took my chance to catch him but missed, so I got up and ran after him. Every step was like someone was snapping a dry twig and STICK IT sprung closer to the river. He jumped I leaped and we both ended up being drenched in the fast flowing river. I was drowning he was on a lily pad floating past. I was so mad i grabbed a twig and pull myself out of the current controlled water. But he was gone….. I was too late. “The world won’t sleep with STICK IT around….” I muttered to myself
I heard the snap of a twig and saw light coming my way. In a flash I ran so whoever it was wouldn’t find me. Soon I ran in to some black berry bush and was stuck. The sound of snapping twigs sound got louder that’s when I heard the sound of radios. A couple of park ranger came crashing through the bushes with torches and demanded to know why I was out here in three in the morning.
I explained what happened but they didn’t care about something destroying the world. They only cared about their park.” Why don’t you just go back home and play you I pad.”
As I was walking home I was sure that a frog (quite possibly STICK IT) grinned at me.