Cabin in the Woods
By Jacob Carvell
Grade 5
Fort Street Elementary School
One day, in the middle of the woods, there was a cabin. Nobody visited it because there was a rumor that it was haunted. People say that downstairs there were many weapons. So I thought that I should go to the cabin and check it out.
At first, when I went in, the door slammed fast. I already was scared. I thought that I was going to get hurt, a little at least. I heard something downstairs.
It told me, “I am sharpening them up.”
I immediately ran for the door, but it wouldn’t open! Then I heard gun shots and a motor rumbling.
I shouted, “Stay away from me!”
Then footsteps came towards me. Step. Step. Step. Step. Then again. Step. Step. Step. Step. Then STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. STOMP. I ran around, all over until I heard nothing. Then an axe went right by my face.
“Few, that was close!” I whispered.
Then, tranquilizer darts kept getting closer and closer, only one hit me, but it just got stuck in my shirt. Then, I heard groans in the living room. The lights flickered. I was very scared.
I said, “If you get any closer, I will have to put up a fight.”
The voice said, “Well, how about I just make you a ghost!”
“No!” I screamed. “I will not be so horrible, like you!”
The ghost replied in an angry voice, “Yes, you will!”
“Well, we will just have to fight,” I said.
“No,” he whispered closely.
“Fine,” I said and ran away.
The ghost started chasing after me, but then he stopped and screamed, “Ahhhh!”
A guy in overalls, a white shirt, a black hat, big brown boots, and with a 20-gauge shotgun was standing in the room. In his left hand, he had six partridge, two birds over his limit.
The man said, “What a day!” He started gutting the six birds out in the house. A dog came and licked the feathers and other parts up. I heard a loud scream. It sounded almost like my mother’s scream.
The man said, “Go away!”
In the meantime, I had grabbed an axe and tried to chomp down the door, but the man told me to stop. I kept going and made it out. I hid up in a tree and made a great, big fort. To this day, I can still hear that loud scream that sounded just like my mother.
