Ghost Story
Ghost Story: The Hands Part 3.
‘Something evil?’ I said.
‘I was in my study,’ he replied. ‘It was probably about eight in the evening and I was doing paperwork related to work. It was a very cold night, so I had my central heating cranked up full. It was VERY toasty in that room. Suddenly, the temperature plummeted. It must have dropped thirty degrees in the space of a minute. I could see my breath misting the air.’
‘Spooky.’
Richard scratched his head.
‘It wasn’t so much the cold that bothered me. It was the feeling that there was something in the room with me – something evil. The hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. Out of the corner of my eye I could see my cat crouching just outside my opened study door. It was snarling and hissing and its back was arched, the fur standing upright, eyes fixed on a point behind my chair. And I just knew that if I turned around I would see someone or something looming over me.’
‘And did you turn?’ I asked.
He paused, shuddered and took a drink.
‘Yes,’ he said. ‘I did.’
To be continued…
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How to survive the new school year:
Did you ask the question about the car? Any interesting replies?
In English, write a poem and hand it in to your teacher. The poem doesn’t have to make any sense whatsoever [in fact, much better if it doesn’t], but the key is it should LOOK like a poem. Something like this:
I hoot
like a bullfrog on the moon with A.D.D.
and see the lights
Of the universe
Blink … Out.
Tell your teacher that your poem is a microcosm of man’s search for commitment in a hostile cosmos and ask for his/her opinion. You will be surprised how often the teacher is full of praise for compete gibberish. What are they going to do? Destroy a budding writer’s confidence? I don’t think so.
