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Guildford Grammar Preparatory School
Writing Festival
2019
Narratives
Student writing sample:
Maggots
by Michael Minchin
Hello, I’m Billy Maguire and I’m an average student at Guildford
Grammar School. I’m no ordinary boy and here’s how I turned
into a thing no man has seen before.
The Transformation
It was a Saturday afternoon, my dad was at a meeting and my
mum was always late. I was starving so I went into the cool damp
fridge and found a mysterious paste that looked like humus so
I put it on a square sesame seed cracker. It was not hummus it
was maggot paste! I could feel my heart thumping faster and
faster and faster. I could see yellow spores growing on my arms.
I was changing! My eyes were bulging and they felt like they’d
explode! My arms were shrinking and there was a voice in my
head saying “Calm down it’s okay you’re just about there. Yes,
you’re mine now. To the city!” he commanded. I was mind
controlled but what was I? A MAGGOT!
The End of Earth (or is it)
“Yes, it’s time for us maggots to rule the world. Come my
friends, join me and find the humans.” Of course, the maggots
are animals so each human they consume gets slowly digested
and is now in control of the movement. But as this is happening
the world is organising a meeting to save them all. The plan is
to get the giant demon surrounded and get the army to shoot it
with all the bullets it can. They do know that there will most likely
to be a lot of casualties but as with Godzilla we will not stop
fighting it.
Lights, Camera, Action
In the abandoned mall, the maggots are hiding but the military
know this so very soon they will launch the missile to signal
the final attack to save the world. But it seemed to be too easy
when the strike happened we all knew it was. The mall was
deserted. The maggots were smarter than we thought. Then out
of nowhere the giant demon crashed into the helicopter and
killed them. All the people where shooting but it just bounced off
like jelly. The world was doomed, or was it? When the maggot
crushed a fire hydrant the water sprayed it and caused the
maggot lots of pain.
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The Winning Blow
They had found a way to kill the maggot and save the world. So
now when they attacked they knew they would win and they
did, but something even better happened. All the humans fell
out of it. They had won forever.