My Encounter With An Anaconda Snake

• Amelia Lewis, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2021

I was so excited I just got to Indonesia I’m going there to work on a sick animal. I found these really cool white rocks at my camp site. l started setting up my tent. It was all peaceful until I saw it, it...had razor sharp fangs, its body shined in the late sun light and its eyes were cold and icy. And it looked like it was 40 feet long. I was so scared I thought I was going to die. I ran out of breath and my heart was racing so fast it was like it was going to jump out of my body and hide.
One night I woke up to the snake laying down next to me with its mouth wide open. I screamed but nothing came out of my mouth, not even a peep. My whole body was shaking. I thought I wasn’t going to make it out alive. I didn’t know what to do so I did the first thing that came to mind. I grabbed the pillow from behind my head and shoved it down the snake’s throat. I thought that would hold it but it didn’t. It just swallowed it whole and now it was mad. It had a deadly look in its eyes and a grin upon its devilish face. A gust of wind blew across my body which sent a shiver down my spine. But then I realised those white rocks I found were her eggs. I ran back to my tent and grabbed them. I found some food then I ran to the spot I found them at and placed them back. The snake slithered back and it was happy now. A couple days passed and I got used to the snake and she got used to me. Then I lived my days happily and so did the snake with her babies.