Nathan's Pet Shark

By Daniel Fellows

Nathan has very few friends.  Nathan is a loner.

 

Nathan loves books, and he loves sharks. 

 

If he had his way he would spend all his time reading about his favourite marine animal.

 

While in the local library, the town bullies decide to teach Nathan a lesson they think he deserves.

 

Nathan's pet shark, however, has other ideas.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Fellows
• Release date: Dec 31, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223172970

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Nathan's Pet Shark

Daniel Fellows

Copyright © 2024 by Daniel Fellows

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Nathan's Pet Shark

About the Author

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank my beautiful wife Amanda for her encouragement and support in the creation of these stories and everything else I have written. I love you, sweetheart. Thank you.

Nathan's Pet Shark

Before the blood and the screaming, there was the library.

Nathan’s plump fingers delicately thumbed the paper and hardback books on the shelf just below his eye level.  His head cocked to one side so as to better read the titles and the authors’ names on the spines, names and titles he had read dozens of times this school year alone.  Not that he had to do this on this particular aisle, as this aisle, as well as many others in the Kwinana Public Library, were as familiar to him as was the contents of the pantry at home.

School had ended for the year a little over three weeks ago and at the behest of his mum and dad he had left the safe confines of his bedroom and the kitchen, more specifically the refrigerator and pantry, and sought solitude and safety elsewhere.  Begrudgingly, he had complied.  Instead of contacting some of the few friends he had, Nathan had sought the solace of the library, seeking refuge that he felt only the library within the books on the shelves could provide outside of his family home and his bedroom.  Nathan was more than acutely aware of his own awkwardness amongst his own peers and his popularity, or lack thereof, amongst those of his own age.  Even his teachers throughout the year had shown their disapproval and sometimes open disgust at the rotund twelve-year-old.  They thought their side long glances as they stood at the head of the classroom teaching algebraic formulas and the parliamentary system of Australia had gone unnoticed by Nathan, that he had been too engrossed in his non-fiction books, when he should have been nose deep in his textbooks, to notice. But when one was the butt of every joke and ridiculed as much as he was, whether he was in hearing shot or not, one acquired the ability to sense the eyes of those around him and the snarky comments made about him.  His own personal spiderman sixth-sense.