Leeca’s Journal

• Evie Burrows, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2018

In May 1973, I killed an old lady. She was walking along the city path and when she wasn’t looking I put a bomb in her bag. Tick, tick, tick the time was ticking 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 BOOM! She blew up, blood and organs went everywhere.

In January 1978, I murdered a young girl. She and her parents were asleep. I smashed the window and crept inside. I grabbed out my gun and bang she was dead. Her bed was covered in blood. Her mother and father did not hear a thing. In the morning, her mother and father went to her room to wake her up for school but she was dead.

In April 1980, I robbed a bank. It was Halloween and the bank owners went out to get some lollies. They were far away from the bank so I smashed a window and collected all the shiny money to give to my boss.

In January 1983, I hung someone in my back yard. I was sick of people walking past my old house. I set up a trap outside my yard. Ding, ding, ding. That was the alarm. I ran outside to grab the person then I quickly ran back inside tied a rope around his neck and tied the other end of the rope to a tree and it was fun watching him die.

In June 1988 it was time the police found out what I had done. I was going to be hung so these are my last words “I wish I had not done any of this.”