Quinn The Spotted Tail Quoll

• Saachi Bhambak, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2018

Zzzz… my parents were still sleeping! I was very hungry, so I decided to grab some birds and some possums.
“What? Where did Quinn go?” yelled Dad. Yum that was a good snack. What? Where am I? All I saw was a deep dark forest. I started to yell Mum! Dad! But nobody replied. It was getting dark so I slept in a fallen log.

I woke up and opened my left eye. I saw red and white furry paws standing right outside the log. I was sleeping in. I thought for a while, thinking what it could be. But I didn’t bother looking outside to see what it was. Then I realised it was my predator A…A FOX!! BIG ORANGE FOX!

I looked around, thinking how to escape. I could hear the fox licking his lips, ready to eat me. I gazed around without making a sound. The other side of the log was blocked, so I started to nibble it so I could escape. After a couple of minutes, I was half way through nibbling the log. I squished myself out of the log and raced swiftly for my life. I realised I had run so far I was on the other side of the road! I could barely see anything. All I saw were cars, trucks and people. I could hear somebody calling my name.

“Quinn!! Quinn!!” Some people had built a fauna crossing for me. On top of it was all of my favourite foods. There were dead birds and possums. I didn’t know what to do. Should I trust them or should I not trust them? But I was starving, so I walked up the bridge very carefully. I gobbled up the food and ran to the other side. I was on the other side of the road but I couldn’t see my parents. I ran yelling, MUM!!! DAD!!! But nobody answered until I heard somebody yelling “QUINN QUINN!” It was my parents. I saw them and raced to them.

Then we all ran back home to our underground burrow. While I was telling my sister Molly all about my adventure, my mum called me to say I was having another little sister!!