Danny, Who Fell in a Hole by Cary Fagan

Author:Cary Fagan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd.
Published: 2013-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

When Jeff came home from school and found that his parents had put all their belongings into cardboard boxes, he naturally thought something weird was going on. But what really turned him onto the truth was when he couldn’t find the family dog, Spot.

“Delicious,” said his father, wiping his mouth with a bed sheet.

Yes, that’s right. Jeff’s parents had eaten the family dog!

“I’m still hungry,” said Jeff’s brother, Donald. And then Donald looked at Jeff. Disgusting drool began to drip from his mouth. His brother and his parents began to move toward him.

And that’s when Jeff knew.

His family were all zombies!

Should he run? Or should he try to find a way to turn them back into humans?

Danny was so absorbed in writing his story that it was a while before he realized that the patter sound had stopped.

And that writing sure made a person hungry.

He pulled out a peanut-butter granola bar, tore the wrapper and took a bite. He always liked to carry a few in case he got hungry, and his brother always made fun of him for it. “Expecting to be caught in a hurricane with nothing to eat?” he said once.

As Danny chewed, he poked his head from under the plastic and looked up. The sun was coming out again. He crawled out from under the roof, trying to stay out of the muddy spots. He walked around, stretched and shook himself.

He looked up. The circle of light wasn’t as bright as before. An unpleasant shiver went through him at the thought of night coming on.

Danny saw a dark shape at the edge of the hole. It was a dog. A dog was looking down at him.

“Worlff!” said the dog.

“Thwack?” he said. “Is that you, boy?”

Thwack whined and scratched at the edge of the hole, knocking in bits of earth.

“Thwack! It is! It is you! You ran away from the farm, just like I ran away, and you found your way back. You missed me, didn’t you? You don’t want to live without me. Good dog!”

Thwack whimpered and yipped. He darted forward so that Danny was afraid he would fall into the hole, too. But Thwack pulled himself back in time.

He started to run around the hole, yelping and barking.

This was good! Somebody would see the dog acting weird. Somebody would come and find him!

Thwack stopped. Once more he looked down at Danny, one ear half raised and his mouth open as if he was smiling. Then he shook his ears and scratched himself with a hind leg.

A butterfly flitted over his head. He snapped at it.

He trotted off.

“Thwack?”

There was no answer. For several minutes Danny looked up and called, but the dog did not return.

Thwack was a good dog, but Danny had to admit he wasn’t the smartest canine in the world. He could be easily distracted. And now he had forgotten Danny.

Suddenly Danny felt intensely lonely. He was still angry at his father and his mother and even his brother, but that didn’t mean he wouldn’t be overjoyed to hear their voices and see them looking down the hole to find him.

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