Writers Extrordonaire

We have some fabulous authors in our midst!! Congratulations first of all to all of the students who so enthusiastically entered the recent Moorabool Young Writers Award.  It takes real courage to be prepared to share your writing for others to judge in such a public way.  Additionally, it takes both perseverance and creativity to produce a story worthy of such a competition. A particular congratulations to both Bryson McMIllan and Joseph Seketa for each gaining and honourable mention for their stories.  They are proud to share their stories with you.

Unknown Battleground - Joseph Seketa

Boom! Boom! I suddenly sat up. Where am I, I think. I feel around on the floor. Why is there a pickaxe next to me? I pick up the pickaxe and start walking. Suddenly I hear a sound. A loud bang I turn around to see a guy disappear and drop his guns to the floor. I race over and grab his gun and run away. 2 hours later I found a small house in the middle of the island. Suddenly I hear footsteps.

I jump out of my building and start spraying my assault rifle. At one point I hear the guy die, I stop firing my gun. I find a miracle laying on the ground, a legendary weapon, a grappler and an RPG.

I found some materials from the guy I just killed. I figure out how to build ramps, roofs, walls and floors. I build myself a little house and wait for the last guy.

There 2 people left me and him. I'm camping in a house waiting for him. Baboom Baboom my heart is racing as I hear Him walk past I jump out and start attacking him. He starts attacking me. I'm on one health when I kill him. I've won. whoo hoo. I'm not very excited as I know another round is coming of this terrible game fortnite.

Dug The Hero - Bryson McMillan

On an early Summer morning under the ocean in a coral reef, two friends Dug the Dolphin and Samantha the Octopus were exploring an old rusted shipwreck, that was lying in the centre of the brightly coloured coral reef.

As they got deeper into the shipwreck they found a nice spot to sit down and chat while listening to the clams bubbling, the fish swimming and the electric eels buzzing.

Meanwhile on the east side of the reef a shark named Tyrone had just freed himself from a fishing net and was super hungry because he hadn’t eaten in days. He started swimming around looking for food when he stumbled across Dug and Samantha sitting in the old shipwreck of the open sea.

He began circling above Dug and Samantha excitedly, thinking to himself here comes dinner!

Dug looked up and spotted Tyrone approaching them, and yelled out to Samantha, “WATCH OUT THERE'S A SHARK COMING TOWARDS US!” 

“WHERE? I’LL SQUIRT MY INK AT HIM!” replied Samantha.

“HE’S BEHIND YOU!” screamed Dug.

Samantha quickly turned around and squirted a colossal amount of dark black ink in Tyrone’s eyes temporarily blinding him.

“AHHHH I CAN’T SEE!!!” shouted Tyrone.

Tyrone began swimming around erratically all over the place and ended up crashing head-on into a sharp piece of rare, bright red coral.Tyrone was furious. “I’LL GET YOU FOR THIS!!!” He boomed.

“You know what Dug? I think I’m ready to go home now!” said Samantha.

“I’m ready to go home too, especially after that scary encounter,” replied Dug. 

“Hey Samantha do you want to meet up here again tomorrow?” asked Dug. 

“Sure,” replied Samantha.

The very next day Tyrone was back lurking and hunting for his next prey. He was hungrier and angrier than ever. 

He began searching the floor of the coral reef looking for food, when he flipped over a rock with his fin, and hiding underneath, was a giant sea slug. Tyrone got very excited and with his razor sharp ferocious teeth he happily tore it apart and devoured that poor defenceless sea slug!!!

Now that Tyrone had a nice full belly, he leisurely swam over to the old shipwreck and started circling above it, in anticipation for Dug and Samantha to finally show up for his main meal.

Exactly 20 minutes later, Dug and Samantha arrived together at the shipwreck and happily sparked up a conversation about how to make fish lasagna, while eating their fish butter and jelly fish sandwiches. Dug heard a loud swishing noise and noticed the starfish, the parrotfish, the lobster and a family of octopi camouflaging in the sand. Alarm bells started ringing in Dug’s head, and he knew something was wrong. 

Dug looked up from the shipwreck and could not believe his eyes! Tyrone was back and darting directly towards them as fast as lightning!

“QUICK Samantha get on my back! I’ll swim us to safety!” yelled Dug.

“NOT SO FAST!” yelled Tyrone as he knocked Samantha right off Dug’s back with his long pointy snout. Dug was so angry that he quickly turned around and slapped Tyrone so hard with his enormous tail that Tyrone catapulted out of the water and landed on the beach never to be seen again!!!

“Samantha where are you?!” cried Dug.

“I’m over here at the shipwreck!” screamed Samantha.

“Well we won’t be seeing him ever again!” said Dug reassuringly.

All of a sudden the sea creatures in the reef began to emerge from underneath the large cave like rocks, the long thick seaweed and from beneath the muddy sand surrounding Dug chanting, “DUG THE HERO! DUG THE HERO! DUG THE HERO!!!!!!!!!!!” Thanks to Dug, the reef was safe again!