Story Spotlight: Escape an Angry Badger

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This term, we are carrying on our playable writing, looking at ways to create games through words. This excellent extract by Zawadi is from our choose your own adventure writing:

Attempts to escape an angry badger…

“You quickly turn and begin to climb a thick oak tree. Unfortunately, you are halfway up the tree when you lose your grip and slip all the way to the trunk of the tree. The growling gets louder and you have no choice but to keep trying to climb the tree. Thankfully, just as you hear the growling getting closer, you reach a sturdy branch near the top of the tree. You are about to sigh with relief when you hear scrambling below. Then, scratching on the bark of the tree.

You glance down and see a pair of firey red eyes staring back at you. You hurriedly look around for a way to escape but the only thing you see is another branch on another tree. Your eyes dart down to the firey red eyes getting increasingly brighter then at the branch a short distance away.

You take a deep breath then position yourself to jump. You take a few ragged breaths and after a second, jump in the direction of the other branch.

Sadly, you don’t make the jump and fall. You die from the impact of the fall.”

By Zawadi