2025 Spooky Story Competition

Torn and bleeding, her eyes still wild and desperate, she slid behind a rock and for a moment she thought she was safe but then she heard the heavy unwanted sound of his boots crunching the Baltic blades of grass that were caged by his foot.

She thought.

She listened.

She thought.

Then she ran weaving in and out of the crooked and dead trees that loomed over her head. She saw an opening in the trees and darted for it.

She woke up in her bed writhing, gasping for air and scared, but she just shook it off like a bad dream and got ready for school, all day trying to forget. Then it came to her: “That’s it! Oh wait, it can’t be! That looks like my…” A massive BANG came from outside!

BY BRODY WITHERS