Strange Creatures

By Karen Hughes

Meet Olivia the cursed bigfoot, Alfred the lonely dire wolf, and many other strange and wonderful creatures in these exciting new stories. The stories were written by the clever kids at Murrurrundi Public School during an 8 week creative writing program with author Karen Hughes. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Hunter Valley Writers
• Release date: Feb 17, 2023
• ISBN: 9780645459340

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Strange Creatures

Strange Creatures

A COLLECTION OF STORIES BY THE TALENTED KIDS AT MURRURUNDI PUBLIC SCHOOL

With a little help from author

KAREN HUGHES

and superstar teacher's aide

JUDITH WILSON

Hunter Valley Writers

Contents

A Curse Upon Olivia

William Howard

The Worst Alien on Brunos Mars

Braiden Harvey

Zombies

Abby Ashford

Plan of Attack

Cooper Taylor

The Faraway Fruit

The Dwarf Series

Emmalyn Hynes

Exploring Mars

Lilly Hyde

The Quiet Place

Ayaan Hussain

Afterword

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Hunter Valley Writers — First Edition

Compiled by Karen Hughes

ISBN  978-0-6454593-4-0

Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.

– E.L. Doctorow

A Curse Upon Olivia

WILLIAM HOWARD

Olivia, who happened to be a bigfoot, was a fun friend. She was also a chatterbox. When she came home from the city after a long day, she told a new story about the humans each time. She played with the humans like they were toys. The humans were unique and interesting with their inventions. Olivia watched everything they did with her fantastic eyes.

She left at six o’clock in the morning on the weekends. William the Wombat and Ernie the Echidna were relieved when she left their cosy cave at the top of the mountain, because she snored as loud as a lion’s roar.

On the weekend, whenever she had spare time, she went off in another direction, but never into the place that she called the abyss. She had told William and Ernie to never ever go anywhere near the abyss. The abyss was hidden in a mysterious cave that was always very dark and blocked by towering trees.

One day, Olivia left to go into the deep dark forest. It was a journey over the hill and around valley, and she was not even tired because she had a lot of stamina. She approached the dark forest and moved the trees around to try and find something special. She scattered the leaves around and peeked through the trees to try and find something.

Just then, in the glimpse of her eye, there was this glowing mystical tree. It was in a circle of trees glowing. She ran over the trees with her big body. Suddenly, there was a flashbang! She could not see. It was