Room 132

Intro: This is a mystery story that takes place in a little town called Lock City, Kansas.

And it is about two characters named as Billy and mom, and Billie’s had just died

supposedly killed himself, says the police. So Billy and his mom move to the country to

get away from there bad past in Seattle, were they used to live.

“Mom this house sucks; I want to move back to the city. It’s to far from the city and nothing like the city.” “That’s how its suppose to be, it’s called the country Tommy.”

“Whatever mom, it still sucks.” “How about a treat, lets go get some ice cream downtown.”

25 minutes later…

“Hay neighbors.” “Hello this is my son, Tommy. He’s just going into sixth grade.” “Oh really, I’ve got a son also that’s going into the sixth grade too, Billy come on out here, I want you to meet our new neighbors. This is your neighbor Tommy, he’s as old as you are, and this is um what your name was” “Sally.” Billy why don’t you go back inside and finish your chores.” “Well it was nice to meet you.”

60 minutes later…

“Mmm thanks for the ice cream mom,” “your welcome.” Ok now let’s go checkout the new house Tom.” “Mom I wish dad was still alive to be here.” “So do I.” “Well this is your room.” “Ok mom you can go now, I want to unpack.” “Fine I was going to go take a shower anyway.” “This room is pretty cool a nice bed, a mirror, a closet, and my own bathroom.” (Door starts creaking open then stops). “Mom was that you, mom? C’mon, mom.” “BOO!” “Real funny”. “Ya I know, it was.” “God mom, I felt like there was a ghost at my door trying to get through and just get past the door.” “Ya ok I’m going to go finish my shower and go visit the neighbors.”

30 minutes later…

Knock! Knock! “Hi I thought we should get to know each other a little better.” Well you got here just in time, my friend Sandy and I am making a cake for dessert.” She works in the bakery in town.” Well I guess I will get to know you both a little better.” “Tom why don’t you go play wit Billy outside.” “See ya mom, oh mom were going to go back and play a video game or something back at are house.”

15 minutes later…

“This game is really cool.” (Door opening). “What was that?” “Oh that was probably just my mom.” “Hay mom, come quick me and Bills mom and her friend just finished the cake.’ “The cakes in the kitchen.” “Here it is. “Oh my god she bleeding really bad Tommy got get your mom and tell her to call 911 and tell her my mom is dieing.” “I can’t find her.” (Power goes out). “Oh crap the powers out.” Well the phone obviously is not gonna work. (Door starts creaking open then stops). “Mom is that you no or is it.” (Doors opens). Sandy. Thump! Sandi’s body falls to the ground. “Nope it’s me.” Mom why.” Why kill these two people.” “3”. “Also killed your dad Tommy.” “Why.” caught him sleepin with someone else. So then we argued then I killed him.” “But why these two.” Oh Bills mom, she made me. I accidentally bumped her while she was getting the knife. And she fell so did the knife, blade first. And Sandy, well she walked in and I had thought that she had thought I had killed her.” And I didn’t want to get talked to by the police because they would get suspicious about your dad’s killer me. So I killed her to. Well now it’s your guy’s turn to die, can’t have any witnesses.” “But how are you.” “How I going to get away with this I will flee out of the country. I think I will give you guys another chance to live. You got 15 seconds to run and hide, and if I don’t find you in 45 seconds I will leave and let you guys live.” “Mom your crazy.” “1 2 “stop” 3 4″ “run!”. In the closet, she’ll never find us here.” “14 15”. Here I come. Thump thump thump, “she’s coming up the stairs”. She walks in the room. “Whooo she’s gone.”

BOO!
-Stewie

“Nick.. Nick psst, where are you?”
Footsteps rushed above Kelsi in the darkly abandoned hallway. She heard faint groans off in the distance of the building. Then the lights started to flicker making her figure look like a photo negative. Leaning off to one side Kelsi made her way slowly down the long dark hall. When a loud thundering shatter and a piercing scream from her boyfriend Nick flooded her ears. Kelsi ran down the hall following the scream. When she got to the end of the hall found nothing but two doors. One door had a bold sign saying “PIPES” and the other with a bright neon sign saying “EXIT”. Kelsi figured Nick had found his way out and screamed to signal the direction of the exit. But as Kelsi opened the door, which closed and seemed to lock behind her, when she switched on the light, it was to her surprise not an exit of any sort.
Light Switches OFF.

BREAKING NEWS

Young couple Kelsi Sanches and NIck Gable have been reported missing, it’s been two days since either have been seen. If anyone has any sign of where they might be please contact us immediately.

Exactly 2 years before at Pacific Medical Center, you Amy Jacob’s and Devin O’Connor were in a freak accident on the 4th floor of the Southern Wing. Otherwise referred to as the mental institute. The Mental Institute has been sealed off regarding the fatal pipes and old storage. The walls are torn apart because of the molding and nobody but specially qualified custodians have been permitted up. We have been contacted and notified of reported movements since then during the late hours of the night.
Two years ago Jacob’s and O’Conner were living on the fourth floor with a good number of other children who suffered from mental disabilities. No one was aware of the horrible piping until a few of the pipes burst and flooded the whole 5th floor, no one was able to save young Jacob’s and O’Connor’s lives. The two were somewhere along the main corridor playing catch when the incident happened, and while everyone evacuated the building, the two didn’t notice what was going on until the lights went out and the water flowed freely. It has been said by quite a few of the nurses, those who stay after hours and work on the upper or lower wings, that they have heard footsteps above them. They’ve reported frequently but the footsteps never cease. It’s said that on calm nights you can hear the two children playing catch in the hallway and hear the ball bouncing up and down between the two and the water running. Some assume that the pipes just have malfunctions. But when you hear her laughter for yourself… it’s not the pipes breaking. It’s young Amy and Devin coming out to play.

By: Shanana Jones <3

Reality is Fiction

Ana awoke suddenly to a screeching of a rat as it sprinted across the room. (Screeching, then pots and pans banging) “Oh no,” she thought. Last time she called the exterminators they exterminated everything other than the problem. There were still blotches in the walls and floors from there visit. She walked downstairs. (Thump, Thump) She paused for a second…she checked the clock, 11:59; usually her husband is home in the kitchen eating a midnight snack. (Ding, Ding). It was midnight. She got to the base of the stairs to see red puddles on the floor. She majestically walked over the puddles to gasp at what was in the kitchen.
She saw her husband on the floor, foam pouring out of his mouth. She quickly checked his pulse. Ana thought she could feel a beat but thought she was hoping for one. Then, she clenched in fear. Sweat beading down her face. Who or whatever did this could of only done this in the past ten minutes because that’s when her husband came home. She heard some rustling outside. “Oh no, oh no,” she said quietly to herself. Then come crashing through the door. “Oh Yeah!” said the Kool Aid man. She screams as the Kool Aid man pulls out a mixing spoon from inside him. She turns and starts running as fast as her tiny feet could carry. She was a typical housewife, never was very active. She could barely keep a steady breath. The darkness from the living room blinds her for a second. She trips over the foot stool. She tries to picture her surroundings. Her eyes adjust to the light.
The Kool Aid man stoops over her looking a hundred times bigger than in the commercial. She then heard a “Thack!”. The Kool Aid man falls to the floor. His juices pouring out on the floor. She then turns to see the orangutan from the Tang commercials. “Who haha!” it cries as he steps toward her. Then everything became a blur. She woke up in her bed. She looks over to see her husband next to her. She then hears a thump in the closet. Puzzled she sits up. Same old blotchy walls. It was still night. She falls back in bed, lying there pondering. Then came a voice from the closet, “OH YEAH!”
By, The Lucaci

Knock, Knock, knock…. “hello,” said Mr. Steven in a very tired voice. “Who’s there?”…there was no answer.
Mr. Steven is a 29 year old man who lives in a very large house in the town of Crocker. He bought the land his house now sits on about 4 months ago and is now living the same day over and over again. But he is begging to remember…
Every night there is no answer just the same three frightening knocks on his bedroom door, except for this one night. Knock, knock, knock he hears, “who’s there?” he asks…
“It’s me Mr. Steven.” replies a young lady’s voice.
“Who?” he says as he runs up to his door to find no one is there. He looked down the hall as the lights flickered and then shut off. He stood, looked, and waited for something to happen. But nothing did until he sat back in his chair. He saw a bright *FLASH* and woke up not remembering a thing. Except the “dream” he had had the night before.
*BOOM* the thunder struck loud and hard as it always did in the town of Crocker. His heart was now racing as he was very confused; he ran to his desk and ripped open his journal… But all he saw was knock, knock, knock, and parts of the “dream” he had just had. Over and over again he had been writing the same events for all the days of his life. He knew he had gone to get a new notebook because he remembered buying it but how could that be he didn’t have another one. He thought over what happened. “I went to the store, bought the notebook went back to me car and…*BOOM…BLACKNESS*
“Hello, hello are you ok?”….
Knock, knock, knock…………

The Beginning

On the day of the very quiet day, the hotel Adriano had no vacancy. Next day after the first, for some reason, all the people left and there were only10 new people in the hotel. It was very unusual thing in the 5 star 40 story high hotel. Every one who was staying that day chose to stay in the rooms that was higher than 20th floor. At 1 am, security guard screamed. The owner of the hotel James Moore rushed and got there. Every one was dead in the one room. All bodes pilled up. The room was very dusty. James Moore called the city police but other than dust, they found nothing. Dust can’t kill people. There was no evident of murder. Police said it was group suicide. However it did not looked, as it was suicide.
Next day, there were once again 10 peoples in the hotel. Again every people who were staying chose to stay in the room that was higher than 20th floor. This time, James Moore ordered 10 security guard to guard the hotel users. At 1 AM that day, the custodian screamed. All 20 peoples including the security guards. James Moore called the police again but the police said the same thing again.
The day after that, there were 21 people that came to the hotel. All of them once again stayed in the room that was higher than 20th floor. This time owner Moore summoned more police and Security guard. They guarded the peoples that stayed in the hotel.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa” the scream Rang through the reddish sky and the sea.

The Murder

The hotel Adriano was 5 star hotel that had good reputation. It located on the island that was near the Italy. The hotel had good food and good view. It stood by the sea. There was the beach that they owned that let the people that stayed there to swim and play. The ocean gave hotel a great view also. At dawn and dusk, sea shined red. And sun went up or sun disappeared in to the sea. The hotel was surrounded by a nature also. There was garden in the hotel and forest was very near the hotel. 2 miles from there, there was the big port town. It had many different countries food and they’re importing from many different places. It had many unusual foreign stuff. Hotel Adriano was perfect. Perfect indeed for any one.
Until now.
The mystery of the hotel murder rang through the world. The incidents became a rumor. Rumor quickly spread. The rumor became fear. Police search as much as they can but they only found dust. They found the letter addressed to them, which said 15 people, will die tonight. And one murder will be there…
Police and hotel security guards joined to rush in to madam Marria’s room. The one who just screamed. They had bad felling that she was dead already.
“The Spider. It in my room after David Camay-Puff came. It is now on my bed.” Her fainted voice was rather shaggy but next scream of 15 people stunned them. They looked down. The was pile of 15 peoples below them. They looked as they fell off from one room. The James Moore called the detective Matthew Gardena. Which was the finest detective around here. 1 minute later, he arrived.
“Have you secured the survivor?” asked detective Matthew.
“Yes every one is on top of the building. No one has tried to escape yet.” Answered police chief Bremen.
“Very good let us start investing. If you don’t mind, I will wish to investigate by my self for one hour.” Said Detective.
“Very well I will see you in one hour.” Police chief replied awkwardly. He went to the top floor. There was out door garden and the view of the ocean. He checked on every one. He especially checked the guy whose room was blooded and madam Marria. Every one was there. He took out the pipe and lit on it. He gazed at ocean for long time, and puffed. It was all quiet. He felt good. “Probably the Madam Marria murder or helped the murder.” He was starting to make a conclusion.
There was large bang noise as door opened. Detective walked in confidently. When police opened his mouse to speak, Detective Matthew interrupted.
“David Camay-Puff there is no more point hiding the fact that you did it. There is no point fighting you are surrounded.” The guy called David Camay-Puff stepped back.
“ That right. I did it. I did it because it made my hotel in this island go out of business. I did it so this hotel will also go out of business.” Admitted David Camay-Puff. He had smirk on his face. Police took him away.
“How did you deduce all this?” asked Police Chief.
“Simple observation from his room.” Said Matthew. “I deduced this by looking at dust in the Air way which matched the one David Camay-Puff had it. He was also small enough to go in to the airway without difficult. And I got other information about him.” Finished Matthew.
“What is other information?” asked Police Chief.
“I will keep that to my self” answered Matthew the sky was turning brighter. The dusk was near.

After the Murder

Next day Matthew had a bad news about David Camay-Puff. He murdered half of the police officers and escaping the prism. He killed police chief so he can’t get his payment now. He is tough enemy and he is tough as I am. Matthew thought. He thought that it would be interesting.
KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK
The sound has awakened him from his thinking.
“Who would come this early in a morning.” Mummer Matthew. He stood up and opened the door slowest as possible. And…

THE UNKNOWN EVENT OF LITTLE ANDY

It was a strangely light but rainy in the night of November, where a 5-year-old boy named Andy wasn’t able to sleep because of the hard rain. Andy was a short little boy who has blonde hair with sky-blue eyes, and skinny as a stick and he was very shy. In his bed in the middle of the night he heard something crawling. He started to freak out but he thought it was a mouse, and it was getting closer and closer to his room. Suddenly, the noise stopped and it was all-quiet for a while. Or at least that’s what it seemed like to him. “It’s all just a dream, calm down”, he thought. Dreadfully, instead of crawling there was running, and the running got louder and louder and louder and soon it just stopped. He was relieved but still scared when it all went away when he heard something. (High-pitched scream) The screaming seemed as if it was never going to stop, while he heard (dishes breaking, windows breaking, and something destroying things on the wall) things. But suddenly, it was plain quiet with no noise, not even the rain, just nothing. (Door creaks open) He was happy that the noises went away and he was already scared to death after all of these things but he smelled something really disgusting, something like blood coming from his parents’ room. He crept closer and closer to the room and when he got there he saw……….
There he sat and stared at the destroyed room with the windows broken and everything in the room destroyed. It was weird for him that the only that was not destroyed and dead was a videocassette, and just by looking at it, it was sooo tempting to watch it. The look of it just kept saying in his mind, “Watch it, Watch it, Watch it!”. He was so tempted that he immediately stuck it in the half-destroyed T.V. and started to watch. Something strange was happening while he was watching. A little boy just about his age died in the video in the house that looked exactly like his house. At the end it said, “Those who watch this film will die….”and heard an evil laugh. Just as Andy was terrified of the film, he knew something horrible was going to happen, just like to his parents that were both dead on the floor. All of a sudden, he being so shocked, a…

On a cold small island off the coast of Mexico there was a town that was very poor. This town mostly spoke Spanish, but some people spoke English and were very religious. They always sit around the bon fire and tell stories of myths. One of these myths was about an old cave near the shore. Anyone who went in never came out but it holds the richest treasure on the island. Only few dared to go in. Whoever did ran out almost instantly.
“Medina if I go to this cave and come out with the treasure we will be rich!” exclaimed Fernando, a tall strong Spanish man who worked for a living by the docks.
“I don’t want you going I there, if you die who will make the money for our children!” shouted his wife as she flipped dough for some bread for dinner.
“I need to go. No one can stop me from becoming rich.” and at that Fernando slammed the wooden door and stomped down to the beach. “My own wife doesn’t think I will come out of this cave alive. It is just a stupid myth.” he muttered to himself. The waves crashed against the rocks of the beach. Fernando climber the slippery rocks to the cave without falling. When he touched the soft sand of the beach he notice that animal foot prints lead inside the cave and were filled deep with blood.
“It was just a wounded animal, that’s all,” Fernando thought. As he entered the cave a light twinkled on toward the back of the cave. As the light illuminated the surroundings it revealed an old broken up house with windows smashed and tide marks on the drenched wood of the base. The man shuttered and walked up the porch of the house. He could feel the creaks of the wood under his feet. He slid open the rusty door to the light.
The room was filled with old antiques and bare walls and an elaborate staircase that led to the second floor where the light had been turned on. Then he noticed the bloody animal footprints that led up the stairs. Fernando followed them eagerly. Like the porch these stairs creaked horribly and chilled him. On the second floor the prints disappeared as if it was a ghost. There was only one hall way so he followed it. As he turned the corner several hallways appeared but there was no doors. Fernando turned down the left one and saw a room with a door and light coming out of it. He ran towards the door expecting to see mounds of gold and silver but suddenly fell face first on his back. He stood up and looked at the door bewildered and realized that it was a mirror.
Why would someone put a lone mirror in a hall way, he thought. The man, shocked, turned around and saw the same door. He noticed he was also in a different hall way. He slowly made his way to the door, step by step. There appeared to be no mirror and he creaked the door open. He saw in that room menacingly black and red flames jumping up from a circle of rocks in the middle of the room. To his horror blood trickled out from all directions of the rocks. Suddenly he heard a growl and the bloody prints appeared again. A menacing black bloody hound stepped out from the fires.
The beast gave a blood curling howl. The only thing Fernando was thinking was to run down the hall way as fast as he could. The dog leapt at him gnawing its teeth and barking. Fernando fled down the halls one by one. He turned the corner to find another hall just as the same. Behind him the dog lashed and tore at his shirt. He stumbled but kept running as he could feel his shirt soak with blood. Finally as he turned the corner he saw a open room with no door but a lone window. Fernando threw himself in it not knowing what to find.
Fernando lay there for a few moments knowing that the dog was gone. He got up and looked around. The room was totally bare infront of him. The room only held the single window that on the other end was a room where the bloody demon dog was but this dog was sitting very still looking at the hall way which it came. Suddenly Fernando noticed a tall hooded figure walking very slowly down to the room. The dog still sat silent and the figure stepped towards the window. Slowly and slowly until it stopped and pulled its sleeve down to reveal an icy chilled hand. The hand moved towards the window. The closer it got the more frightened Fernando became. Suddenly it stopped a few feet from the window. Fernando felt a cold tight hand on his shoulder. He felt colder and colder, then hot but cold. His bones chilled and his skin became numb. The figure moved closer to the window until Fernando could feel the cold deadly breath on the back of his head.

It was mid-autumn; you could hear the wind rustling in the few leaves that we’re left in the trees. Lucy was sitting at her computer desk, text messaging her friends. Lucy was home alone for the weekend, while her parents were on vacation in Hawaii. Then, she got a message from xXClownFace187Xx. She accepted the unknown message, it read, “Hello Lucy”. “Who is this?” She replied. “I am everything you know and fear”, the other user, replied back. “Stop joking around, who is this?” Typed Lucy, who was now getting slightly shook up, being alone in the house. “I’m not joking, go ahead, get a weapon, lock yourself alone in a room, I know your alone, and I will find you.
A couple days went by Lucy’s parents would be arriving around one or two in the morning. She was about to get into bed when she thought she had heard something down stairs, so she went to look. She found nothing. Once again, as she was getting into bed, she heard the same noise, it almost sounded like a much distorted, muffled laughter. So again, she went down to check it out, but again, nothing. After she got back up to her bedroom, she decided it must be the wind, so she shut the windows. Finally she was asleep, but it didn’t take long for her to wake up again, to the sound of laughter, it was getting nearer. Lucy jumped up and locked the door; quickly she hopped under her blankets as a little kid would, hoping for protection under the covers. Footsteps seemed to suddenly appear out of nowhere. Then, they stopped. Nearly half an hour later, she decided it must have been her parents, and they hadn’t checked up on her because they didn’t want to wake her up. Lucy was already unnerved, so she went to look for them, no such luck, she couldn’t find them. Now she was really scared. She was back in bed, then she saw a clown nose roll across the floor, she was so scared no noise even came out when she attempted to scream. A shadow flashed in front of her and landed in the closet. The thing was so fast, that you couldn’t even tell what it was. Cautiously she grabbed a baseball bat; she had placed next to her bed in case anyone chose to break in. She turned the door knob, and raised the bat. The last thing she saw was a grinning clown face, and a glove reaching for the bat.

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In a Friday afternoon on the country road, two girls were riding their bikes to visit there grandmother. As they always did, they rode through a small trail that will lead them over a mountain of the windward side. Maybe it was because of the Thursday rain so the mountain was wet, but the sky was much darker then yesterday. Looks liked it was going to rain today.
“June, hurry up, we’ll never get to grandma’s house if you get playing around and pick up flowers.” Her sister shouted with a very angry voice.
Suddenly, the rain started to fell down as she said. “Look what you did! Now we’ll get wet and catch a cold and we won’t be able to get there on time.”
“I guess we should find a place to stay until the rain stops first. “June suggested.
They speed up their bikes and rode like the wind through the small trail, but the rain started to get into their eyes just when they saw an exit of this mountain trail June fell down from the bike, but Jenny the sister did not notice that, in fact she was so excited to get out of the dark trail and speeded up.” June, isn’t this great, we can finally see grandma!” Jenny said, but there was no reply. “June? Are you okay?” As she turned her head, June wasn’t there.” June? Is there some kind of joke?? Come out know, stop playing!” She started to worry.

Back to the dark trail in the mountain, June of still fainted on the ground. Slowly, she opened her eyes and found herself lost in the mountain. She couldn’t see anything in the dark, so without noticing, she walked back into the trail. Suddenly, there was a tap on her shoulder, she turned back to see who, but there was no body. She felt frightened, and started to shake. Even though, it was in the dark, but there seem to be a large shadow behind her. Another tap was on her shoulder, but this time she did not turned her head, instead, she grabbed a rock and through it into the owner of the shadow. Funny, as the rock flew, it didn’t seem to touch any thing at all. She kept shaking, and tried to calm down, but she couldn’t control herself. A reflected light came from the owner of that shadow, and a sever pain cut through her leg, “WOO!” She screamed.

“June where are you? Where are you?” Jenny repeated over and over. She then felt a tap on her shoulder so she turned back, “June! I knew you would come back, I was-” It wasn’t June, in fact, there was no body. She thought it was just her imagination, but a dark shadow rose from the ground. It almost looked like a person about seven feet tall with an umbrella on its head. It smiled with its shiny teeth, and a voice from the back said, “Welcome home, my dear.” It sounded like grandma, but after all the stress she had, she fainted by the sudden attack of that shadow..
A spoiled odor blew into Jenny’s nose, as all her sight felt dark and cold. She woke up as that odor kept getting stronger. A leg felt down from no where and landed on her laps. “Ha!” She shouted as she pushed the leg away from her. A cold feeling was on her back while she felt a touch on her shoulders, and a soft voice,” Where is my leg??” She thought it was because of the loneliness and fear that she had that make her to imagine that voice, but this time, the voice got louder, “Where is my leg?? I’m coming for it!” The voice said as she heard the foot step jump one step to the next. “Where is my leg?? I’m opening the door!” The voice said again while she heard the door opening. Another touch on her shoulders, except this time it stayed and touched her face. “WOOOW!”

It was dark out. I was alone or that’s what I thought. I grabbed a wash cloth and towel and headed to the bathroom. Once in there the door shut like somebody else shut it. I turned on the faucet. The water was a reddish color. Then I heard a weird sort of scary movie laugh. I looked around and saw no one was there. I went over to the tub and saw that same reddish water. I searched in the tub for the plug when something bit me. I took my hand out fast and examined it. I was scared now. I ran to the door but it was locked. There was no way out except the window. Then I heard that same scary movie laugh again. This time it felt as if it was on me. I turned around and saw no one. Frantically, I searched in the dark for a hammer. I grabbed a hammer that was lying on the counter. I was yelling now for help, hoping somebody would hear. Nobody came. Then I heard a weird sort of crackly voice that said
“ Charlotte…. Charlotte are you scared? Look behind you. I’m here. I’m somebody you don’t expect. A childhood friend possibly,” queried the crackly voice.
“ Who are you, go away,” I said.
There was no response. I looked around. Then I saw a devil ducky that had something blood red dripping from its’ mouth and what looked like a piece of human skin stuck to its’ horns. I screamed. The devil ducky just sat there. I knew something was wrong. I moved toward the window not knowing what that ducky would do. I had that mental feeling that I should not trust the devil ducky, but I also hoped for the best. I heard the scary movie laugh again coming from the devil ducky. I now was prepared to defend. I flinched and the duck attacked. Blood was now all over. I fell to the ground. Frantically, I searched in the dark for the ducky. No luck. I felt my heart pounding. My neck hurt. I felt as though I was in a scary movie myself. I heard heavy breathing but it was through gritted teeth. I looked around again. I felt something drip from above. I looked up. I saw only water dripping from the window. I relaxed a little, but not completely because that ducky was still here. I took another look around and saw nothing. I heard the dripping from the sink. Then the tub. Outside it was dark. An alarm went off. I jumped. I couldn’t take another scare. All of the sudden something was sitting on the sink. It moved toward me. Not the scary movie laugh again! Then it looked at me with red glowing devil eyes. All of the sudden it struck me. I fell even harder. I felt my neck. It was bloody. I felt my head. It was bloody. I just laid there. What happened? I tried to stand up but I couldn’t. Something opened the door and dragged me out.
I woke up in the hospital. Was this a dream or was I dead? Then I turned my head and spied a devil ducky on my bedside table. It had those same glowing red devil eyes and just then, it winked at me. I shut my eyes. I didn’t open them again.

A small, secluded beach where six men lie on lawn chairs, each with a case of beer, tanning their beer guts. All is quiet. No one makes a sound, just sitting and drinking. Then, suddenly, out of the blue, placid water comes a giant, man-eating turtle with a shell like the Astrodome. Yet the men drink on. The turtle starts its slow, lumbering walk towards the drunkards. It gets closer and closer. None of the men makes a move. Then, as the turtle snaps its jaws right above the mens’ faces, five of the men jump up and start throwing empty beer cans at the turtle. It seems to be working. The monster is being pushed back. But then, inevitably, they run out of beer cans. Then the turtle comes raging back. Finally, at the last second, the sixth man gets up and holds out a beer toward the advancing turtle.
Some time later: A small, secluded beach where six men and a giant man-eating turtle lie on lawn chairs, each with a case of beer, tanning their beer guts. “Cheers.”
By Brian Griffin

Do You Know the Muppet Man?

Jason knew something was going on but he had no idea what could do this to these children. So far there were five in all. They lived all over the country and no method of transportation could get the “perp” to each scene. Jason was an investigator on a trail. What caught his eye was that after three days there were five children with the same symptoms in different states all over the country. They all were found frozen, starring, grinning in front of the TV watching the same show: “Smile Time.” Jason went to the studio where they shot the show thinking that he might find something out about why they caught whatever it is while they were all watching that same show at the time.
Jason went down in the basement of the studio. He found something all right. There was a man straight out of his straight jacket. He was insane. He had not seen the light of day in thirteen years. He was the creator of this hell of a show.
Jason heard a voice at the bottom of a set of stairs that led to the furnace. As he descended down the stairs and was three steps to the landing, he heard a creak of the stair below.
“Damn,” he thought as the noise ceased. He froze on the stairs as if someone had glued his feet to the floor. Then footsteps started to come towards the landing. Closer and closer they came. Then an old man appeared with a cigar and a half sewn puppet in his hands.
The first thing the man said was, “You would be a great puppet for my show!”
“Who are you and why are you in the basement?” He asked the old man.
“I could ask you the same thing. Like this, who are you and what are you doing in the basement?”
“What are you doing with one of the puppets from that show?” the detective asked.
“I created them, didn’t you know? You are the one who is snooping around in this basement with no knowledge of who is down here. So I’m asking YOU. What do you say, Sherlock? Want to be a puppet, or not breathe this poison they call air?”
“I have nothing to say to you until you tell me who you are and what you are doing down here,” he said as he got out his phone and started to dial, “And don’t say that you could ask me the same thing.”
“I don’t have to. You just did.”
The detective had had enough and was leaving when the door to the exit opened and a swarm of men came screaming through, pointing guns in every direction.
“Freeze!” one of them said. “You have the right to remain silent.” Just as the detective turned around he realized that the old man was gone, and they had come through the only exit.
A week after the show was cancelled the children started to be able to move their fingers and toes. But, where did that old man go, and why was he claming to be the creator of this show, SMILE TIME? Insane or not, he got away with no record of his existence.
So who was he?

It was dark and I swore I heard crying coming from the girls locker room. Grabbing my best friend?s arm, we ran to the noise. “Anna! Why are you dragging me all the way over here I already got my stuff out of my gym locker. Lets go!”

“Sorry Maggie. I just heard crying so I thought?”

“Thought nothing. I bet it?s the janitor crying about the art job he never took. You know the guy who got it is now filthy stinking rich!”

” guess so…”With that I let go, and we went on our way. Suddenly I saw a light out of the corner of my eye. It started to flicker, and my soul jumped out of my body for a spilt second. “Oh my goodness. That was so scary. Wasn’t it Maggie?” No answer. The halls were empty. Then out of the middle of nowhere…

“BOO!!!” Maggie from right behind me. Scared the living daylights out of me I fainted…

“Anna? Anna… ANNA!!!!”

“What!” Standing to my feet, reaching for a hall pass I didn?t have.

“You fainted!” Maggie replied, dodging my hand whipping out at her.

“I did, didn’t I? Well it’s your fault for scaring me. This would have never happened if you hadn’t scared me!” I yelled back while turning my head away. Waiting long enough for a snide remark, I turned my head around, getting ready for another surprise attack. “Come out Maggie, I know you’re hiding.” Looking once more. “Maggie this isn’t funny we. Well, I have to get home!” At that moment, time slowed to sludge. I heard crying. Now, two voices. One sounding very familiar. It was Maggie! Turning, walking, and then a mad dash to the girl’s locker room from which the sound had come. “Maggie!” Seeing her curled up in a ball crying was a new thing to me. The Maggie I knew wasn’t scared of any thin. Fire, spiders… And growing up.

“Anna Run It will get you too!” These words escaped Maggie’s mouth just as I saw that she was bound wrist to wrist and ankle to ankle with some thing that looked like fire. Looking around, I saw the exits were closed. And hearing Maggie scream made me look around fast enough to duck. Staring right behind me, I saw a gash in a lock where my head had just been. Turning around to thank Maggie for the help, I saw a look of total horror in Maggie’s face. Tears still pouring from her eyes, she stared past me to the locker with the fresh gash in the lock. I turned back to where she was staring. I knew I had to run. For written in gashes across the locker’s paint were the words “YOU’RE NEXT”.