Storymakers: How Did Big Foot Become Big Footed And Get So Hairy

Storymakers: How Did Big Foot Become Big Footed And Get So Hairy

By Montanna
Sixth Grade
Ralph Bell Elementary
Kamploops, BC

Once upon a time, there was a person named Billie Bob Joe, and that is just his first name! He lived in the woods with his dog, Joe Bob Billie. They were waking in the woods. They were happy as a robin with worms after it rains. They were hunting for deer. Then, they heard a BAM!!! It was the sound of a tree falling but it was not a tree. It sounded like a gun shot! It was a gun shot!

Billie Bob Joe ran toward a tree. Unfortunately, that tree had sap on it, and the sap got all over his body, like a wiener in dough. Billie Bob Joe was on his way to wash it off, but then he tripped and rolled down a mountain. He fell into buffalo hair of the buffalo he had hunted earlier that morning. The combination of sap and buffalo hair made him look very big and hairy. He was so covered in hair that he looked like snow covering mountain peaks.

His dog thought Billie was a deer, so his dog began to bark at him like he was a robber or a monster. Billie began to panic because all the hair was covering his eyes; he started to sprint, but fell down and stubbed both his toes. They were as big as an elephant trunk! Billie had lost his gun and become lost. The only thing he could eat was tree bark and raw meat. It was as disgusting as toe jams on a hot summer day.

He was lost for so long, he did not come across other humans He lost his ability to use his voice to speak. His voice cracked like a boy starting to get puberty and he could only yell gibberish! From that day on, Billy Bob Joe ran around the forest in circles. He did not even know that he had become a legend in the World, and he is now known as Big Foot.

Storymakers: A Creative Challenge for Young Writers, is a program inviting students in sixth, seventh, and eighth grades living in Washington State and British Columbia, Canada, to submit their own original creative writing pieces.