Haunted House

• Erena Kantar, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2016

We open the door it slowly creeks open and inside the house is full of cobwebs and dust, it smell like rotten flesh. We walk through as the floorboards creak, we hear sounds coming from upstairs and all of a sudden I hear a thud. I turn around and June is gone. I’m stating to get scared now. I turn to run out the door then suddenly it slams shut, I shove the door but it won’t budge, it’s locked from the outside. I take one step away from the door and the floor splits, I fall down then I hit the ground, it doesn’t hurt but I look up and I realise I’m not that far down. I suddenly slip, it’s like I’m sliding on ice then I get to the edge of a cliff. I try to stop, but the ice slides me right off the edge. I see the bottom, it’s water but really murky water. I hit the bottom of the pond. I start to float up when I see a tail; it’s almost like a crocodile’s tail. Then I see it again, wait it is a tail. I swim so fast across the pond. I get out and turn to run. They have surrounded me, they’re snapping their jaws and coming closer, I see a long weed hanging off a tree at the top of the cliff. I grab onto it and swing up to the middle of the cliff. As I hold on, it starts to break. I see a cave in the cliff, I drop and grab onto a stick that’s sticking out. I jump into the cave. All through the cave it’s pitch black. I see a light and I follow it through the cave. Then I see a room full of opal. I go to take a piece of opal when the ground cracks and I fall down. Then I see a coffin almost big enough to fit a small child in, it opens and I see, just lying there… Erena.