The Scream

• Ruby Dunn, Grade 5
• Short Story
• 2022

AHHHH! I hear a scream from miles away but I didn't think much of it so I minded my business. But every step I took, the scream repeated in my head. I ignored it.

When I get home, I try to get some sleep but I keep thinking of all the bad things that the scream could have been! The horrible assumptions.

The next day I decided to go back to the first place I heard the screams. When I got back to the first spot, I was stunned to hear the screams again. It wasn't a funny scream, this was a serious scream. I was terrified! I wanted to get the police, but I knew there was no time.

Then the screams got louder and louder. It's like they were below the ground. So I stopped for a minute to know that there are vibrations under me. I decide to follow the screams only to find out they stop right over a grave. I decide to call the police.

When the police got there I yell and start digging. They asked many times, "why, why, why?" I told them that there's someone that is alive in there. They asked me if I had any proof so I told him everything. They call for back up straight away, get the shovels from the cop car and we start digging like I have never before. When we got to it, we saw the coffin. We opened it to find a little girl!

That's how I solved the case of the missing girl...