Recent content by Auden Sheldrake

Auden beamed. He was trustworthy. An all-round trustworthy boy and great person, actually. Maybe Fi could talk to his mum, convince her to buy him a phone. “Sure. Red and Fi,” he said. He didn’t know what redacted meant, but Red was a cool nickname, so he wasn’t going to ask. His smile...

Auden snorted. "Me mum's bum?" That was a funny thing to say. "She's at home. I'm on my own. Exploring." She'd definitely be worried about him now. If she'd noticed he was gone, anyway. Sometimes, she got really into her phone, and didn't look up for hours. See? This was why she should get him a...

"Thought it was a chair. Somewhere to park your bum," said Auden, as he helped lift the bale. It was heavy, and he still didn't get why the boy needed it when he had a target over there, but, well, he was the expert, probably. The only thing Auden knew about archery was that the thing you put...

Oooh, he swore. Auden grinned back. Nice. He liked when people could take a joke. Not like Ty and Brendan. Crybabies. He looked up at the hay bale, then at the target, and then down at himself - hands on his tummy, like he was really thinking the offer through. Getting shot would be very...

Auden jumped. Oh, thank God. See? He wasn’t lost - he was exploring, and now, because he’d kept going, he’d found an archery club. That was what happened to people who didn’t sit around crying: they found cool stuff. Home probably wasn’t even that far. He’d been scared for no reason. He looked...

Dad lied. It was nothing like home. Auden crunched through the woods, using his stick as a makeshift cane. It was okay. The beaches were better than the pebbly ones at home, and the mountains were - well, he had to say they were awesome, didn't he? They were. It was just... he wasn't ever gonna...