A Good Night For Shooting Zombies – Jaco Jacobs

‘And if you don’t feel well, call me immediately. I’ll fetch you at five sharp, ‘Yea-eah, Mum,’ he said impatiently. His mum drove off, then stopped and started to wind down the window as if she wanted to say something else. But then she apparently changed her mind and headed out of the gate.

‘Thank goodness,’ a relieved Vusi sighed. ‘Do you have any idea how I struggled to convince her to let me visit you this afternoon?’ ‘I can’t believe you talked her round,’ I said. He nodded. ‘If it hadn’t been for Miranda… Believe it or not, she was the one who convinced my parents.

And she didn’t breathe a word about yesterday with the quad bike.’ I looked at my watch. ‘Chris will be waiting for us.’ Vusi looked disappointed. ‘Aren’t we going inside first?’ he asked and pointed in the direction of our house. I shook my head and started walking towards the garage to fetch the bicycles.

‘There’s no time.’ Vusi ran after me with the backpack bouncing on his back. ‘C’mon, Clucky, I’ve never been inside a real actress’s house!’ ‘My mum’s no longer an actress,’ I said. ‘Besides, she sleeps in the afternoon.’ ‘Flipping heck, you have a lot of chickens!’ exclaimed Vusi when we came around the corner of the house. The chickens were lazing in the afternoon sun.

Here and there one was scratching the ground, searching for bugs. I shrugged. ‘They belonged to my dad. Since he died I’ve been looking after them.’ ‘I’m sorry,’ said Vusi. ‘About your dad. And about Cheetah catching one of your chickens.’ ‘Kathleen,’ I said. ‘Huh?’ ‘The chicken’s name was Kathleen,’ I said while taking my and Uncle Hendrik’s bicycles from the garage. I couldn’t believe he’d forgotten Kathleen’s name yet again. ‘You can ride on mine,’ I said and gave him the bicycle with the basket in front.

‘The gears on Uncle Hendrik’s bike are a little dicey.’ Vusi put his backpack in the basket I always put the eggs in when I went to sell them. ‘OK, let’s get going,’ he said. Suddenly he looked very pale to me. What if something happened to him? His mum and dad would blame me because we hadn’t stayed home all afternoon like we’d promised.

‘Are you sure you’ll be OK?’ He nodded. ‘C’mon!’ The gears on Uncle Hendrik’s bicycle made a grinding noise as we got going. When we rode out of the gate I carefully checked both sides of the road to make sure there was no sign of Vusi’s mum. Fortunately the place Chris had talked about wasn’t too far away. ‘I’ve… never heard… of a girl… called… Chris,’ wheezed Vusi after we’d covered some distance.

Jaco Jacobs is the most popular and prolific children’s author in Afrikaans. He has published more than 140 books, together selling over a million copies, among them A Good Day for Climbing Trees (Oneworld, 2018). Jaco is also a well-known columnist, blogger, freelance journalist and translator. He lives in Bloemfontein, South Africa. 1kitap1.com/en Kobus Geldenhuys is an award-winning translator who received the South African Academy for Arts and Science Prize for Translated Children’s and Youth Literature in Afrikaans for his translation of the third book in Cressida Cowell’s popular children’s series How to Train Your Dragon.

Jim Tierney is an acclaimed book designer and illustrator. In 2011 he was awarded a New Visual Artist Award, and in 2016 he won a Regional Design Award for Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits with Gun. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Sara Wood. 1kitap1.com/en Illustrated by Jim Tierney Translated from Afrikaans by Kobus Geldenhuys 1kitap1.com/en For my dad, who can do long division in his head 1kitap1.com/en Contents 1 Nicknames, a Punch in the Nose and the Death of a Show Chicken Called Kathleen 2 Leghorns, an Uncle with a Broken Heart and Two TV Series You’ve Never Heard of 3 Weird Groaning Sounds, Old Thrillers and Diseases Named after People 4 Green Beans, Happy Numbers and a Bedroom Door 5 Seven Plot Plodders and a Spluttering School Bus 6 Vusi’s Movie 7 Loitering Around, Getting up to No Good, Lotto Numbers and a Leather Jacket 8 A Bike, an Escape and an Action Scene 9 A Conversation 10 The Word ‘Dead’ and the Number Zero 11 Riding a Bicycle Around the World 12 The Perfect Place to Hide from Zombies and Killer’s Unplanned Demise 13 Problems 14 A Bloody Scene 15 Good Times and the Value of π 16 A Chatty Old Lady and an Awful Silence 17 My Dad and a Brilliant Plan 18 Vusi’s Mum 19 An Unpleasant Surprise 20 A Conversation with Some Chickens 21 Riding a Bicycle in the Moonlight 22 Breaking In 23 Long Numbers That Can Be Divided by Eleven, a Sore Shoulder and Two Policemen 24 Puffy Eyes and a Conversation on a Veranda 25 Zombies 26 Einstein, Time and Another Newspaper Article Acknowledgements Copyright 1kitap1.com/en Nicknames, a Punch in the Nose and the Death of a Show Chicken Called Kathleen Everyone thought it was because of the chicken that I gave Vusi a bloody nose, but that wasn’t really true.

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