First Published 2017

Awesome publications

Smith and Russell streets,

Cleveland QLD 4163

Tony the Lonely Ogre

ISBN: 4 4 4 2 8 6 7 15 2 4

© 2017 Carlton Jaffrey

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Printed in Cleveland, Australia

Cleveland District SHS Library cataloguing

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                   Tony The Lonely Ogre

Once upon a time, on the far edge of a town named Brindleboar, there was a sticky, slimy, smelly swamp. In that putrid swamp stood a dilapidated old shack. The shingles on the roof were falling off and the mossy old stone the house was made from was crumbling like a corn chip. However, this old miserable shack wasn’t unoccupied, it housed an ogre. His name was Tony. He didn’t have friends, nor did he like people, that is why they called him Tony the Lonely Ogre. Tony never left his swamp, even though the actual town was much cleaner and nicer, everyone assumed he lived in the swamp because he hated people.

Zakrai was the Lord of Brindleboar, he had bright scarlet hair and a colossal crimson beard. His old face was as wrinkled as a raisin and his long coat dragged along the ground as he walked. Zakrai was standing on the platform in the centre of town. When everyone arrived he yelled with his booming voice, “Welcome to this meeting, we have something important to talk about. We need to discuss what we are going to do with Tony the Ogre”.  

“A long while ago he scared my darling mother and she fainted and to this day she still hasn’t woken up”, boomed the hostile voice of the menacing Zakrai. The audience was so surprised and didn’t know what words the wicked wizard would say next. “So I have come to the conclusion that I am going to place an enchantment on him, to make him turn into a disgusting, annoying, oversized mosquito, if he doesn’t stop being so lonely and scary. He has until the next full moon, which will be next month, to change his ways or else suffer the consequences”.