Congratulations to our winners! All levels, Kindergarten through 8th grade, were given the same challenge to write a Spooky Story! The following is from our Middle School (6,7,8) class:
The Jersey Devil
By Zach Karageorge
The Glaskos were new in town. They had just moved to Kronskie, New Jersey. The parents were no nonsense people who had closed minded beliefs. They had a ten year old son named James. On James’s first day of school, he was told of the Jersey Devil, a horse-faced, bat winged humanoid with hooves. When he got home he pondered the story, then retold it to his parents who dismissed it.
After two months of monotony in the Glaskos home, something happened. When the Glaskos had all left for work/school, their dog Grey disappeared. What was really strange is that when the Glaskos got home all the windows and doors were still shut and locked. They searched for hours, but finally went home and prayed that the dog would return.
The next day, James retold the story to his friends and most of them admitted a similar disappearance of a pet. Two said, “It was the work of the devil.”
Another said, “You are all PARANOID. It’s sad.” One boy advised him to sprinkle holy water over the entryways in the entire house, so when James got home he sprinkled everything.
When his parents saw him, they were perturbed. They wondered what their son was doing. When he explained, his parents sent him to his room for making up stories. The next day, the Glaskos found the dog’s collar on the front porch shredded, covered in mud, blood, and the stink of rot.
That night the storm of the century rolled into the Pine Barrens. At 12:00 a.m., there was a god-awful sound. It was an agonizing shriek to rip your soul in half! Now the Glaskos were awake. They were up in their house on the hill, sitting in their living room waiting out the storm and wondering what had shrieked.
Suddenly a tattoo of beatings and rapping started on the roof and windows accompanied by more howls. Occasionally the deathly music would cease then return with a vengeance. Finally, a flash of false daylight 25 feet away from the house lit up the entire county. Framed in the window was a stunned gargoylish creature with fire in its eyes. A millisecond later, the thunder was so loud that it broke the windows of the house.
The creature revived from its stunned state, stood erect, and screamed to the sky before it flew away. The rest of the night the Glaskos sat huddled on the couch with a gun at the ready in case the creature came back to resume its beatings on the house.
The next day, they packed and moved into the local motel. There the devil followed causing damage to the building. Finally the Glaskos evacuated from the state. On their way out of town, they found their dog covered in mud and the devil’s blood.
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