Dares Can Change You Life!

• Jack Dawe, Grade 6
• Short Story
• 2008

It was the school holidays and I was at my friend’s house. We were playing ‘Who can do the craziest thing?’ I dared Josh to walk over water but he couldn’t. Josh dared me to go in the Haunted house. I said “Sure.”
At 10 o’clock I met Josh in front of the haunted house. I walked to the front door and opened it. I left it open. Bang! The door had shut. I went to open it but couldn’t. By this stage I was frightened, all I could see were two doors and stairs. I didn’t know what to do? I went in a door. I walked in a bedroom, it looked nice and cosy so I laid on the bed. The pillow felt a bit weird and the next thing I knew spiders were coming out. I didn’t know what to do. I saw a dead man sitting on a seat behind me. I had a closer look and maggots were eating his skin. I screamed even louder than I did before. I ran out and went into door two.
I saw the scariest thing in my entire life, it was a Skelton taking a bone shower. It hopped out and went to the toilet but it took no notice of me. Then when it got to the toilet it just disappeared. I freaked out totally. I tried to open the door but every time I tried, Skeletons would try to get in. After I went to have a look in the medicine cupboard and I saw nothing but then a skeleton grabbed me and pushed me out of the room. I shut my eyes and when I opened them all I could see were skeletons surrounding me. As I freaked out the skeletons kept getting closer and closer. They started ripping my skin off and my guts out. It hurt heaps and BAM I was a skeleton. I couldn’t remember who I was or where I lived.