Unfed by Kirsty McKay

Author:Kirsty McKay
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub, mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Humorous Stories, Horror & Ghost Stories, Action & Adventure, General
ISBN: 9780545536721
Publisher: Chicken House
Published: 2013-08-27T04:00:00+00:00

wish U were here

Mum’s writing.

Seriously, Mother? Couldn’t you have used the space to say something a bit more helpful? Like, starting with where the hell this lighthouse is, perhaps? Is it where Smitty is, or where you are? Or should we beware the lighthouse? Or maybe it’s symbolic, another code to be worked out? And why the hell did Martha have the same damn picture?

I groan. I get that my mother is being über-careful and all, I truly do — I mean, if this backpack had fallen into the wrong hands, heaven only knows what could have happened. The enemy would have waterproofs! They’d have clean drinking water! And a charming picture of a lighthouse! It would have been game over, Mother.

I shove the postcard back into the pack.

Just the heavy, wrapped-up thing to investigate. And you know what? Part of me already knows what it is, and that’s why I’ve left it till last. Because if I’m right, I’ll have a big ol’ dilemma on my hands, the extent of which we haven’t seen the likes of before now.

I unwrap the thing very carefully, tearing off the tape piece by piece until just the plastic remains. Mum did a great job of making it watertight, and it’s as well she did, because the thing inside would probably not react wonderfully to being underwater.

As I reach inside the plastic to retrieve the thing that I’m going to wish was never there, I suddenly doubt myself. But as my fingers close around the smooth, cool object and I draw it out slowly, my very worst suspicions are confirmed.

My mother has gifted me a gun.

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