On A Scary Night

• Hamish Thorne, Grade 5R
• Short Story
• 2013

Hi my name is Ben and my brother is Henry.
My brother and I don’t get along very well I don’t like him very much and he does not like me very much.
Well let’s get on with the story well one day I went out looking for gold but you see I got lost.
I did not care because I thought I knew were to go I was looking at all of the colorful and wonderful birds.
Then I looked at my watch it read 4 30pm, it was getting late and I still couldn’t find my way home I started to get scared I’d heard of a tale of a monster called a Nimhowel and they make a sound like hooooooooooooooooooooeeeeeeee. It started getting dark and I looked at my watch, it read 7 30pm then I heard a strange sound way out in the distance, I started walking away from the direction of the sound.

Later on I came to a gate on a bushy path then I saw a sign.
It read, Warning this Path is Extremely Dangerous Keep Away!
I ignored the sign and jumped over it.
I thought it could be the way home, the strange howling noise was getting louder. Soon I started to hear this weird laughing sound, it got louder and louder, the sound was so loud and deafening that I blacked out.

When I woke up, I was still in the same place but something was different, most of the trees were gone and it was now morning.
I was starting to get really hungry my stomach was bubbling up and growling, churning.

I soon remembered tonight was Halloween, I was freaked out, I thought to myself isn’t that when all the monsters come out. Well anyway, I was walking along this evil scent path that smelt of dying monsters, I came to a tree and it smelt pretty bad, sticking out of the tree was a moldy leg with thick disgusting green slime mixed with oozy brown. I tugged at the leg and pulled whatever it was out, I then realized it was a dead Nimhowel.

A bit later I came to a castle, I knocked on the door. A tall man came to the door with a long detailed cloak, he said “Come in and sit down”. We sat down on the couch and I said “Why am I lost, I went down the path the way I normally go”. He said “Do you want to go back to your home”, “Yes I do” I said.

The tall man took me to a graveyard then we came to a hole, he said “Go down this and it will take you home”. So I went through this gloomy hole, it was still night time, as I kept on going I heard lots of strange sounds. This has been a scary night for me I now knew I was heading for home, yes I made it!