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Show _ WASATCH COUNTY COURIER STORIES continued from page 18 ‘watch him. I told my brother what I had noticed. You’r before their son was coming to stay, I watched t hem closely. I wrote all kinds of stuff down about them. ) information about them, °| So the next morning, | con- 10 “Saturday,” my dad coaecat, “you’de i hurry up if your going to make it to the school t to decorate for the as ie nt ie Halloween. Hance.’ ular lights went out and the colored light went on. Everyone began to dance and it went on like that till around six thirty. Then the dance ended and everyone went home accept for the clean up committee. going to open it. But just as I was opening someone was coming down. Quick hide! | yelled to my brother. They just came down to get a bottle. My brother was bright reed. Couse he was:so scared. Since he was — - so scared we had to leave. When we got hoe he puked everywhere. That night me and my brother planed away to keep the vampires from getting us. The next day when we woke up we had to put are plan into action. We hung garlic onions everywhere and made us each a cross. Now it was time for it all to began. They droped their son off and left. My mom made us go play video games with the boy. My brother had to sit by the boy. The boy kept looking at my brother’s “Okay,” I said “By the way,” he said, “do you es were Nick, Anthony, and Kylee are?” “Their parents called here and. said they didn’t come home last night and wondered if you know were ehiey: are.” | Everyone I talked to had a great time. (and I thought that would be the highlight of the night.) We took the short way home that night and passed by ~The End old Miss Hagen’s mansion on Mill Ln. Nick was the The Tale of the new first to notice the light on in the mansion. Neighbors “Hey Austin,” he said “I dare you to go inside old Miss : Hagen’s mansion and find out why the lights are on.” “Only if you guys come with me.” | answered “Unless ‘you're all chickens.” Bay not chickens,” pee | exclaimed, “Were coming.” By Lacey Murray, Age 11. throat. And opened his mouth wide and tried to get I love to scare my little brother, Andy. | I’m always my brothers throat. But my brother moved to quick telling him scary stories until he begs me to stop. and held up his cross. And the boy started laughing and Teasing my little brother is like a hobbie. Because I am so did my mom. Me and my brother were shaking and always teasing him. That’s when it got bad. The-new didn’t get it. My mom explained that those people neighbors , well maybe | shouldn’t tell the ending of were our cousins and they were playing a Halloween the story at first for the story. joke on us. So my mom got our cousins we never met It was a dark gloomy night and | was teasing my iusto: | to play a joke on us. brother. And some people drove up into the old Me and my brother were still aed So my brother We sneaked into the dark and gloomy house: THe air inside was stale and smelled of dead mouse carcasses. As we tiptoed inside Nick’s allergies came up. He began to sneeze. Suddenly the door behind us shut and locked on us. We were trapped like rats in the scariest place in _ town! IN TN We got to the dance just before it started and we all | picked partners. When the first song came on the reg- i Ashley Langford, = freezer. | had to break the padlock that was on it to get. in. When I opened, it their was‘a lot of those red bottles filled with that lumpy red stuff. It was just like the stuff I had found in the van. I think it’s blood if their - vampires. That's problay the stuff they carried in all those white cases. There is a door by the freezer. I’m - When everyone was there we left for the school. docs, a dark hallway, we came to a dead end. As-we turned to. walk the other way, there was a wall there waiting there for us, then all four walls began to close in on us. With only a few feet left we started to panic. Just before the walls were going to turn us into human sardines, they shot back into place and a trap door opened up underneath us and we went tum- bling down into a dark cave with spiked rocks every where you turned. The smell of dead mouse carcasses was worse than ever down here. a “Sick smell,” Kylee said disgusted. -tickedy house. And they stepped out of their car. They wanted to sleep with me. So I said he could sleep with were all dressed in black and their faces were pale. The man. had on tall fancy black boots.and had broad shoulders. The lady-had a short skirt with shiny high,shoes. The boy wore a black velvet tuxedo with shiny church shoes. They all got out of their van. They went to the back of it and opened up the hatch and pulled out a big square box. They carried it into the house. And came back out to grab little white cases. And took them into the house and never came back out. I stood in my front room window with my mouth wide open. I couldn’t believe anybody would move into that old rickedy house, especially at night. Yawn! Oh man am me. Only because he was still shaking. When | was. almost asleep. Something sharp went into my neck I tired. “Might as well get use to it,” I said, “cause we’ve got to I guess I better get some sleep. “This place gives me the creeps,” Kylee said unhappily. | “Me thoughts. too,’ ’ Anthony Can gO agreed, ager “lets find ) a Way out of here home.” Suddenly everything went dark “id a high pitched scream echoed through the cavern. Then the spiked rocks from the top of the cavern broke from the base that held them there and came crashing down at us. “Run,” I yelled. Even though everyone already was. Spikes came tumbling down on every side of me. Then I ran and sat under a rock ledge and pulled the others ‘under with me. That’s where we waited until it stopped. When the rocks stopped falling we came out from under the ledge and again started to walk only faster this time. We hardly talked for a half an hour and once again the smell of a dead mouse carcass filled the air. Then an icy cold and bony hand reached out. and grabbed my shoulder. “Nick let go of my shoulder.” 1 grabbed my dorky little brother and we walked to the old house. We went their so. we could meet them. I was so eager to meet them. I wanted to know everything about them. But when we knocked on the door their wasn’t any answer. So everyday we tried knocking. Everytime we did we got the same results. And that was very strange because their van was always in the same spot like ‘before. After we had gave up knocking. I sorta got suspicous. So me and my little brother, decided to snoop threw the van’s windows. Their was a bottle filled with red lumpy stuff. Yuck! I said peering threw the vans windows staring at the bottle. My brother even had to admit that it was pretty gross. Who would . drink such a nasty thing. Well whoever they are they drink really nasty stuff. It’s getting late we better get I demanded. home. So we went home. When we got home we “Oh, well, Anthony you have cold fingers.” I told him. played video games. Just as | was going to win the doorbell rang. It was the people I saw move into that “It’s not me Austin.” He said. lady asked if they could come into talk. “It’s not me Austin I’m over here.” He answered. house, a week ago. My mom “Kylee is that you?” I asked. heart beating 100 miles an hour | spun around to find a skeleton with glowing red eyes and the smell of dead mice on the rotting bones. “You disturbed my slumber.” It screeched, and with that pushed me into a bottomless pit. That’s when the Alarm clock went off and my dad walked into the rroom and got me out of bed. | “What's today?”I asked. The I hoped my mom said no, cause there was something strange about she answered. my answered the door. | them. But she said yes. When they sat down my mom asked if they wanted some juice. Their reply was we don’t drink juice: That was strange. Who did not like juice. If that bottle I found in their van wasn’t juice then what was it. During the time they were over, the lady kept looking at my moms neck. That isn’t the only thing I noticed. They all had sharp teeth. When they were saying their goodbyes and thank yous. They asked if their son could come stay on Saturday, couse they were going out of town. My mom said she would the Beast Josh’s mud-encrusted boots groaned as if in pain. ion ignored the branches tearing at him as he ran full tilt away from the beast. “The swamp” he thought, “I have to get to the swamp.” There just ahead was the swamp. Josh dove in ‘eli A slimy splash and swam out to the middle of the swamp. Between his short gasping breaths he could hear the beast. Snarls, gurgles, and even howls ripped at his ears. “No,” thought Josh, “It can’t be true”. But it was. I did all my chores like my usual routine. When I was done doing all that stuff. and Jackson Probst, Age 11 In the morning I put on my clothes and ate my breakfast. Don’t let the new neighbors 3 HAPPY HALLOWEEN! Josh But when I got to bed I couldn’t sleep. I was wondering to much about those people. I don’t know how | managed to fall asleep. Because my brain was racing to much with find a way out of here.” and stuck their like glue. fool you! | As we ead bigger than | Ta - From the inside of the isin it Weak when we look at it from a distance. With of through their basement window. We found a big white Kylee came dressed as a pink fiey, Nick as a boxer, Anthony as a ghost, and I was a football player.| “No.” lot vinced my brother to go with me. He didn’t want to be a part of it but I convinced him. We snuck down As usual I showed up first, then Kylee, then Nick va -as usual Anthony was late. We a look in their basement. house just a block away from the condemned old man- SO got y Acs ic was time for the dance. I had made arrangements for my friends: Anthony, Nick, and the girl down the road named Kylee, to meet at the Brown’s sion where old Miss Hagin use to live. I researched it. And the only thing they could have been were vampires. And if their son came and stayed I was gone I have to find someway to stop them. But just to make sure they were really vampires, I have to i When | to - some breakfast. THOT Then I got on my bike ‘and sole back wick just jealous couse their son is my age he said. Each day starts a a Oe half an hour early,” I said "Remember, the at 3:00 pm. . When the beast emerged Josh nearly screamed. The beast was covered from head to toe with scales, except a mane of dark fur that ran down its back. The teeth were the worst part though, teeth were sticking out at all angles like some psycho-dentist had been at it. The savage beast looked this way and that as bewildered. Then it looked right at Josh. Josh alyzed with fear, but managed to try to swim The beast saw his quarry escape and jumped if it was was parto shore. into the water with a disgusting splash. Josh felt something grab on to him from under the water. In the cloudy water Josh couldn’t see: He swam away, but not before his leg got clawed. He scrambled out of the water and ran for his house. He ran into his bedroom dragging his leg, which had gone numb, behind him. Josh got out his most treasured possession, a rhinohorned machete and waited for the monster to come. He heard the sound of a snapping twig, and all of a sudden the beast jumped through the window in a shower of glass shards. Josh swung the machete at it, but the beast simply batted it aside. The beast swung again and ripped a gory hole through Josh’s chest. “Josh”? Josh’s dad, Matt, called. Maybe room . When he is-in his Matt got to Josh’s room he gasped and ~ fell to his knees. There lying on a blood and gore covered sheet was Josh, his throat torn out and a gory hole ripped through his chest. Matt vowed to take revenge on his son. He ran to the telephone and called the police. Then he ran to his STORIES continued on page 20 |