♤ Ƨσяяɛи ♤ wrote:Seventeen StepsMy eyes searched the shelf slowly as though browsing sleepily through a newspaper. "Nope! Nothing else I want!" I sang again, skipping to the counter and dropping down the beady eyed doll with a blue spotted dress. The cashier person, a man, looked at me and hesitated before telling me,
"Little girl, you have to listen to me carefully. Remember when you first go to be after playing with this doll, do not, and I repeat, do not[i] put her on the bottom stair at night. Do you hearr me?" He eyed me, and I leaned back, narrowing my eyes.
"Of course! I'm not stupid." I set my money down and stalked out of the store, my chin held high as though in a just winning an award...
After a while of playing with my doll, I headed upstairs, setting the doll on the bottom of the steps. I lay down in my bed. My parents and brother were all on the bottom floor, and i was the only one on the top. We lived in a huge house. I slept soundly, until I heard: "I'm on the First step, I'm on the second step, I'm on the third step, I'm on the fourth step." It stopped.
"Mommy! Mommy!" I cried. But she never came. I assumed it was just my imagination and went back to sleep.
"I'm on the fifth step, I'm on the sixth step, i'm on the seventh step, I'm on the eighth step."
"Daddy! Daddy!" I screamed. But he never came. I went back to sleep.
"I'm onn the ninth step, I'm on the tenth step, I'm on the eleventh step, I'm on the twelth step."
"Brother!" I cried, almost sobbing. He never came.
"I'm on the thirteenth step, I'm on the fourteenth step, I'm on the fifthteenth step, I'm on the sixteenth step, I'm on the seventeenth step. I'm in the hallway, I'm at your door, I'm in your bedroom. I'm on your bed, and now your DEAD!"Anyone tell me what happened?
Roxy Lalonde wrote:
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slccat wrote:Susan and Ned were driving through a wooded empty section of highway. Lightning flashed, thunder roared, the sky went dark in the torrential downpour.
“We’d better stop,” said Susan.
Ned nodded his head in agreement. He stepped on the brake, and suddenly the car started to slide on the slick pavement. They plunged off the road and slid to a halt at the bottom of an incline.
Pale and shaking, Ned quickly turned to check if Susan was all right. When she nodded, Ned relaxed and looked through the rain soaked windows.
“I’m going to see how bad it is,” he told Susan, and when out into the storm. She saw his blurry figure in the headlight, walking around the front of the car. A moment later, he jumped in beside her, soaking wet.
“The car’s not badly damaged, but we’re wheel-deep in mud,” he said. “I’m going to have to go for help.”
Susan swallowed nervously. There would be no quick rescue here. He told her to turn off the headlights and lock the doors until he returned.
Axe Murder Hollow. Although Ned hadn’t said the name aloud, they both knew what he had been thinking when he told her to lock the car. This was the place where a man had once taken an axe and hacked his wife to death in a jealous rage over an alleged affair. Supposedly, the axe-wielding spirit of the husband continued to haunt this section of the road.
Outside the car, Susan heard a shriek, a loud thump, and a strange gurgling noise. But she couldn’t see anything in the darkness.
Frightened, she shrank down into her seat. She sat in silence for a while, and then she noticed another sound. Bump. Bump. Bump. It was a soft sound, like something being blown by the wind.
Suddenly, the car was illuminated by a bright light. An official sounding voice told her to get out of the car. Ned must have found a police officer. Susan unlocked the door and stepped out of the car. As her eyes adjusted to the bright light, she saw it.
Hanging by his feet from the tree next to the car was the dead body of Ned. His bloody throat had been cut so deeply that he was nearly decapitated. The wind swung his corpse back and forth so that it thumped against the tree. Bump. Bump. Bump.
Susan screamed and ran toward the voice and the light. As she drew close, she realized the light was not coming from a flashlight. Standing there was the glowing figure of a man with a smile on his face and a large, solid, and definitely real axe in his hands. She backed away from the glowing figure until she bumped into the car.
“Playing around when my back was turned,” the ghost whispered, stroking the sharp blade of the axe with his fingers. “You’ve been very naughty.”
The last thing she saw was the glint of the axe blade in the eerie, incandescent light.
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