Early Work

This is where it all began. Here is Patrick's first thriller, penned at the age of six. You can read the original manuscript by clicking on the pages below or skip straight to the transcript underneath.

I opend my eyes and saw a big boot then I saw some big footprints and I looked around and saw a dagger, I new there must be pirats in the cave. It was so Dark that I felt lost and I star[t]ed to walk and I bumped in to smoe thing and befor I new what was hapning I was flung in-to a door and I new what that thing that I bumed in-to it was Pirat. I tried to get out of the door but some pirats were on Guard so I got my dagger and stuk it in-to the wood of the door and it went in a pirats Back. Then the Captin came to kill Me. he opend the door and I got him by the leg and pushed him and he fell on some more pirats and the captins dagger went in-to another pirats back and his tum went in-to a sharp stick that was growing in the sand. then I got a Sword and stared to fight the captin. then the captin shouted yor live or mine. then the Swords were claking. then thay went farster than the eye can see. Soon I got the captin on the sand and he droped his sword so I killed him and got a box of Gold and Silver and went out of the cave and that WaS the End.