Pitch
Rudy (11) feels like the family spare part. That’s on a good day. When an online chat community causes him to unleash the Kaiju inside him that feeds on human souls, his decision becomes: save his family or take over the world. For fans of Godzilla/The Black Hole Cinema Club.
Chapter One
I’m looking out of my bedroom window at the crater-sized hole where the park should be. There’s puffs of blue steam or smoke or something rising from the middle of it.
Dead weird.
I shut my eyes, give them a good rub and open them again quick as a flash. Still there. Not dreaming.
Oh boy.
It’s black. The hole. Down past the smoke, it’s black. Like the sky. The sky is still black and it’s morning.
Someone forgot to wake the sun.
The park was definitely there yesterday and I know the park was definitely there yesterday because I fell off the roundabout attempting to go supersonic after school and I know I fell off the roundabout after school yesterday because I remember all the other Year 7s from my school standing around the actual roundabout like they had formed their own giant roundabout made out of hyena heads and they were all laughing at me…AND I’ve got the cut on my knee to prove it.
The hole, Rudy. The hole. Not your knee. The hole. Right there. Concentrate, mate.
C.O.N.C.E.N.T.R.A.T.E.
Yeah, so, fun fact. Shouting concentrate at people doesn’t make people concentrate. That’s a myth, that. Like Yetis.
Still do it, though.
A butterfly flutters in my stomach where my pain should be. Days always start with gripping pain, but not today. Today there’s just a butterfly. Why?
Who cares! The hole, Rudy. Your eyes, mate. Look at what’s in front of you.
Flap flap, flapperty flap again. There it is. So, where’s the pain gone? Maybe I’ve forgotten. Can you just forget pain? Dad says there is only so much space in a person’s brain and I’m one of life’s professional forgetters, so it’s worse for me. Stuff falls out of mine all the time. It’s a worry really, reaching maximum brain storage capacity and not even really being a teenager.
Continued…