Monday, December 1, 2014

"The Light" - a cliffhanger - By Lindsey Snyder!

Your assignment for Thursday will be to finish Lindsey's excellent story!




THE LIGHT
By Lindsey Snyder
     Once there was a little girl named Julie. She just moved to a new home. The house she lived in was a mansion. It was old and surrounded by the woods. When she went inside, it was nice and big, but she felt a little weird. She thought it was just because it was a new home, so she ignored it. The rest of the day, she helped her family unpack. It was dark outside when they finished unpacking, so Julie grabbed something to eat and then went to bed. Before Julie fell asleep, she lay there thinking. She was just glad that she didn’t have to change schools - that she would wake up to her best friends.
     The next day, Julie told her friends about the house and the weird feeling she had. Her friend said that it was probably just because it was a new house. They asked if they could stay overnight and check out the place. So, later the girls got together at Julie’s house. They played outside for a while. When it was time to go to bed, the girls went to Julie’s room and got ready to go to sleep. The girls could not fall asleep, so they were talking and messing around. Then one of the girls looked out the window and stared. The other girls noticed her and asked what she was doing. She pointed to a dim light in the woods behind Julie’s house. By the time the other girls got to the window, the light disappeared.
     Later, while the girls were still awake, the same girl noticed the light again. This time all the girls saw it. They wanted to know what it was, so they quietly slipped outside into the woods. They followed the light deep into the woods. One of the girls hit her foot off something hard. They looked down and realized they were in a cemetery! Then they saw a lantern sitting there on a tombstone. As they walked over to read the tombstone…

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