Dark Shadows

• Shia Lawrence, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2021

I crept down the dark hallway, as the eerie sounds of the demons grunting fill my ears. A shiver ran down my spine as a spider crawled up my arm. After 4 minutes of shrieking, the spider had finally crawled back down my body onto the wooden floorboards. My orange cardigan rustled as the wind rushed up at my back. Suddenly I felt droplets of some sort of liquid on my head.I look up and see a dead body stuck to the roof. Blood everywhere. I had experienced many things like this but, this was just too much for me. I started crying as soon as I had seen this. My heart had stopped and I had noticed that I wasn't breathing. Then I collapsed. The next thing I noticed was that i was lying in a bed with no mattress. 'Just a normal bed.' I guess that they expected me to like the bed. I quickly got up and started rummaging through the drawers. Nothing at first, but then I saw something I wished I never saw. It was a sample of blood. Checking around my body to see if it was my blood was not a good idea. Because it was my blood.