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• Nicole Edwards
• Short Story
• 2017

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“Mum, I’m home” I said in a loud voice to let her know that I was home. I got no reply. “I guess she must be asleep,” I said mentally. I went upstairs to my bedroom and called my friend Liam.
Ben:“Hey Liam”
Liam: “Hey Ben”
Ben: “All I have to say is that I’m going into that big drainpipe. Are you coming?” I asked solemnly.
“Sure,” exclaimed Liam.
“Ok, see you there at eight tonight” I said in a low hushed voice.
“Ok. But I’m going to invite my friends” said Liam excitedly “You do that. I’ll bring some torches and batteries.” I hung up at 8pm that night.
“Hey Liam,” I exclaimed.
“Hey,” he replied.
“These are my two friends James and Louis.”
“Hey,” they both said casually. James had thick black hair with a skinny body and long arms and legs. Louis had blonde hair with glasses. He was short and stumpy with funny looking legs and arms.

“Are you ready guys?” I questioned nervously. I passed out the torches.
“Let’s go! “ Liam exclaimed. We went up to the entrance. A big metal door stood in our way; we pushed on it, it slowly opened and we all slid inside. We started walking and immediately came to a fork in our path.

We silently went left with an agreement of nodding. We went further in I got a chill down my spine like a skeleton’s fingers slowly creeping down my back. We went further and further in until finally Louis said.
“Guys this is boring. Let’s go back.”
“Fine. Let’s go back and see if there’s something down the right side”.

But as soon as we said that, we heard a scream, but not of a human. It was from some kind of creature. We bolted, all our lights flashing from wall to wall looking like a light show. still we heard it. We made it back to the door and all pulled it as hard as we could but it didn’t budge we looked at the handle, it had a padlock on and it didn’t look like it was breaking any time soon.
We all ran down the right side and just a tiny way down the hall there was a light, a light of a candle. We all ran to it thinking it might be another human. We got closer to the light and finally I found out it wasn’t a human. I didn’t know what it was but it was some kind of altar. It had three candles on it and above the candles there was some kind of wall of flesh. I touched the middle candle, I heard a noise, the wall of flesh opened. I stepped in.