Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Extract
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Extract
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner Extract
All characters in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real
persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
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There was no getting away from it. I’d got lazy. I’d got
used to relying on Hector to warn me of oncoming doom.
That daydream made me forget Hector had disappeared.
I was on my own.
Mr Gunnell got hold of my ear and pinched it hard,
so hard my eyes watered. I didn’t cry. I never cry. What’s
the use of tears? Gramps said that if he were to start
crying, he didn’t think he would stop – there was too
much to cry about.
I think he was right. Salty water wasted in muddy
puddles. Tears flood everything, put a lump in the throat,
tears do. Make me want to scream, tears do. Tell you
this, it was hard, what with all that ear pulling. I did
my best to keep my mind on Planet Juniper, the one
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