These short stories, no longer than 150 words, were written by 2 ESO students to be told on a Halloween night. They had to follow one of the inspirational starting sentences below to write their stories:
a. On a foggy night, the silhouette of a skinny man
stood out against the wall...
b. A beam of moonlight was illuminating the wooden
box when suddenly...
c. The house on the hill was old and gloomy...
The Well
On a foggy
night, the silhouette of a skinny man stood out against the wall. It was
Halloween day, his house was the only one with no decoration. After seeing what
was going on with all that noise outside he entered his home. “Stupid kids” he
though. “They´re always disturbing”. John sat on his sofa, and covered his face
with his hands.
“Why me? It
wasn´t my fault!”, he whispered. John remembered that day, another Halloween
night, when the shadow of Mere came into his house and she followed him
wherever he went. Mere was a girl aged 13 who loved Halloween. And the
Halloween night of 1998 she was going to meet with her friends at the forest to
tell spooky stories.
John was an
old man which the most fun thing he had to do on Halloween was to walk his dog.
He was walking along the path of the forest when suddenly his dog run away and
John tried to follow him, he ran all he could: bumping into tree branches and
leaves but he didn´t notice that he hit a girl. That was a huge mistake.
Mere was
walking when she found a well and she sat on top of it to take a break,
suddenly someone pushed her and she fell into it. She tried to get out, but
after 5 days trying to escape her death came. She could only see that a man
pushed her when she fell and now Mere´s spirit follows that man still looking
for revenge.”
John thought
that his life didn´t have any meaning, he was going crazy and that girl would
never leave him alone, he didn´t know why she was following him but after 15
years trying to get rid of her, he realized he couldn´t. It was her revenge, she wanted him to die.
John decided to stop the suffering, he took his gun, pointed to his head and
shot himself.
Carmen G. – 2 ESO
The Wooden Box
A beam of moonlight was illuminating
the wooden box when suddenly a hair-raising scream came out of it and burst in
the silence and darkness of the night. All the human beings in the nearest
villages were paralyzed with fright and a minute later people carrying torches
started to appear in the clearing of the forest where the box was supposed to
be.
At that moment, the moon was covered
with terrifying shadows and the trees started shaking strongly. The elderly
women in the clearing grabbed strongly their husbands, who trembled, thinking
about the scream they just heard. The children hid behind their mothers who
also grabbed their husbands. No one was brave enough to open the cursed box.
All of a sudden, a hiss was heard and all the torches were blown out. Some
people went down the hill and jumped into the cold waters of the sea and all
the children were crying with fear. Most of the women claimed that they had
just seen hidden demons behind the trees. And there, standing alone facing the box
was me.
The hours passed and no other threatening
danger sings appeared. People started to calm down and they all got asleep
there in the clearing. I was the only one who couldn’t sleep so I encouraged
myself and opened the box. A second hair-raising scream came out of it. I will
never forget what I saw inside. I started running the fastest I could until I
got tired and fell asleep. As far as I know, no one survived and nobody was
aware of the danger the horrific thing I released entailed. And now, every night
I feel as if all the souls of all those innocent people came to my house trying
to take revenge on me.
Pablo G. – 2 ESO
Real Nightmares
The house on
the hill was old and gloomy, dark shadows danced on the walls and a thick fog over the grass made the view even scarier. It was 31st
of October, Halloween. Small children walked on the streets going from door to
door, asking for yummy sweets. They didn’t miss any door… except one. “The House
on the Hill” was an abandoned house since 1987, the year when his owner died in
strange circumstances.
Anyone in the whole town knew the real story
of what happened, but there was one thing for sure: that house was haunted.
Timmy and his friend Steve were going to enter The House on the Hill to show
people how brave they were. They all knew how dangerous that house was, and how
much Timmy and Steve were afraid of it.
Steve was the
first to enter the house while Timmy waited outside. 10 minutes passed and Steve
didn’t return. There was a piercing scream from inside the house. “Steve!” said
Timmy while entering the house without thinking twice. The house was silent;
the only sound you could hear was the agitated breathing of Timmy. He inspected
the entire house in search of Steve but, when he was looking in the kitchen, a
noise made terror install in Timmy’s heart. “No, no, no…” he murmured while
trying to open the recently locked front door. That was the last thing Timmy
said. The night continued being silent except for the little agonizing screams
of a small child trapped in his worst and last nightmare.
Sandra E. – 2
ESO
