Haunted

• Mackenzie Landells, Grade 4
• Short Story
• 2022

Brriingg. BRIIING!!! Lorelai slaped her alarm clock and the sound stopped abruptly. Her alarm clock read: 00:00. She pondered over this for a while as she didn’t recall setting her alarm to that time last night. Creak. Thump. CREAAAK. “Hello? Is anyone there?” She called out with her tone and body shaking. Nothing replied. This freaked Lorelai out even more and she reached under her bed for her flashlight… but nothing was there. Even more worried she looked up and saw it floating in midair. She screamed but something covered her mouth. It appeared and it was… A GHOST! It grabbed Lorelai by the ankle and dragged her under her bed into a glowing portal. It closed up and the bedroom goes dark again. Lorelai wakes up in her bed. More like on it. She was inside the cover of her book! ‘Taken by the book ghost’. Her Mother came into her room and picked up the book. By the next week she had finished it. Lorelai had vanished from the front cover. She was never seen again.
THE END