Spooky House by LNA

One day, when I was at school, the other teachers were talking about an old theater that was on Como Mountain. 
"I hear it's haunted," said Mrs. Darden. 
"That's poppycock, "said Mrs. Beaty. 
"I got an idea," said Mr. Kondro.
"What?" asked the other teachers.
"We'll go up there and see for ourselves." Mr. Kondro said.
"reat dea," said Mrs. Kranjcec.
"But, when do we go?" asked Mrs. Turner.
"How about Saturday?" Mr. Gardner said.
"Why not!" said Mrs. Bailey.
"OK!" They all said.
I even decided to to go.

Saturday, we all got in a bus and went up the hill to check out the theater.  Then we all heard screaming and saw a little kid hiding in the back of the bus.
"Who are you?" Mr. K said. But the kid just kept screaming.
"Oh well," said Mrs. Pual. 
"Just leave him here," said Mr. Lee.
Then we all got out of the bus.  There were some weird things there!  Homeless people and half buried bodies.  Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Hanselman stumbled over some!

We got into the theater.  There were more homeless and half buried bodies.  Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Frisky and Mrs. Watts looked up and stayed very still.
"Why are they doing that?" asked Ms. Thiel.
"There are ghosts flying arund if you'd look up," said Mrs. Paul.

Next there were dogs and cats fighting for food.  It looked like body parts!  Mrs. Dutcher and Ms Donovan settled that!  Mrs. Satalick started singing spooky songs.  Mrs. Reck wasn't really scared because she was busy reading a book.

We had enough, so we went back to the bus.  The kid was still screaming. "Why are you screaming?" Mr. Sandberg demanded.

The kid screamed, "It's the Devil's Playhouse!"

To be continued...

Animal Monster Hunter III: The Dog Lemur

*Apparently, my niece is a bit in awe of her brother's tales of hunting down strange beasts, so she decided to join the party.

I was on the job one day. I was looking for a dog lemur and it lives in the jungle. It was a superpower and the superpower is fire. I found it. It squirted fire at me. I ran.

The next day we brought a cage and the cage had a fake jungle. So we brought the cage in the jungle and the dog lemur went in the cage, but it found out that it was fake so it blew fire at the cage bars. So we ran back home.

The next day we planted trees in a cage and it looked like a jungle so the dog lemur went in and we locked the cage and went back home.

The End.

Animal Monster Hunter II: The Mammoth Bull

So it has been six months and we can't find any new animals.

"Logan?" asked the Chief.

"Yes, sir?"

"We have found a new animal. We want you to catch it.

"Yes, sir. Sir, what kind of animal is it?

"A mammoth bull."

Mammoth bulls live in Alaska and they eat Eskimos and play in tar. They live in groups of ten: four kids, one hunter, one boss, two males, and two females. The babies have a mammoth head and a bull body and the grownups are the opposite. The babies turn into grownups when they are twenty years old. Mammoth bulls can live up to 900 years. When the babies change it happens when they are sleeping and it happens overnight. When they sleep a bunch of golden dust falls from the sky and switches them around. Their hearts are in their head and their brains are in their rib cages. Some groups have rabies and some are even born with rabies.

*To be continued...

Allie the Alligator

*My niece physically wrote the original draft of this, but it was a tad chaotic so we (yes, we) reworked it into something more linear.

Allie is an alligator. She has green skin and red eyes. She lives in No-Name Pond her mom, her dad, and her sister. Her best friend is Fluffel the Death Rabbit and their favorite thing to do is to play in the treehouse they built together. But Fluffel is gone, and Allie doesn't know where she is.

Allie looked for Fluffel the Death Rabbit at grandma's house, uncle's house, and grandpa's house. And then she looked at her mom's house, the park, the river, the store, and dad's house.

Allies also lives in the clouds because she flies. The names of her family are Lucy, Sally, and mom and dad. And Allie the Alligator's last name is Allie. Sometimes they visit their cousin's house and they all play with Fluffel the Death Rabbit. They visit their uncle and like to ride horses, hunt for food, go to the zoo, and swim. They like water, bugs, wind, snow, and rain. And they find caves to sleep warm in the wintertime and when it rains they find water.

One day, Fluffel came back and they played in the treehouse.

The End.

Animal Monster Hunter

So, today I got a job. And this job was no ordinary job. This job was about finding new animals. So, it was my first day on the job and they sent me to the ocean to find an underwater ostrich. I found it, then it ran at me with fire coming off of its wings. I got away just fine, then they sent me after it again. I found it and followed it. It lives in dead whales, so we went into a dead whale, knocked it out, and took it to the lab. And experimented on it. One of the things we found out was that if you leave it in a fire for 2 hours, it will burn up and die. We found that out because we left in a fire for 2 hours and it burned up and died. So we had to catch a new one.

Guess what they sent me to find on the second day? A flying skink. Well, I found it and it threw a thunderbolt at me. He hit me, but I wasn't hurt, so i went after it again. I dodged a bolt and shot at it. I hit it, captured it, took it, and experimented on it. One of the experiments figured out that if he is out of clouds for one minute, it dies.

On the third day they sent me to find a hot lava octopus. So I found it and it squirted hot lava at me, so I retreated. When I came back, it was gone. I checked a volcano and it was there. It squirted more hot lava at me, but I chased it and deeper we went and out of the volcano and then I chased it into a trap. We caught it and did experiments. We found out it lays eggs that have poisonous shells. If you touch the shell, you will die. The babies are about the size of your pinkie. The Hot Lava Octopus is red, black, and orange.

*To be continued...

Fluffel the Death Rabbit

Fluffel the Death Rabbit is my stuffed animal. He eats people who are mean to rabbits and don't like rabbits. He almost ate my brother because he doesn't like Fluffel the Death Rabbit. He ate my neighbor, Liam, because Liam doesn't like rabbits.

Fluffel the Death Rabbit eats carrots only if they're normal. He doesn't like not-normal carrots, especially vegetable carrots. Actually, he only likes candy carrots. You can get candy carrots at the store. I don't remember which store, but I think it's called the Bunny Candy Store. If you have a pet rabbit, candy carrots are free, but if you don't have a pet rabbit, it's $102 for candy carrots.

Death Rabbits run really fast. Sometimes they dress up like humans and they'll go to people's houses and ask if they like rabbits. If they say no, they jump out and scream at the people, then eat them. If they say they do like rabbits, Death Rabbits say, "Okay, I got to go back home," then they take off their human clothes and leave.

Death Rabbits live in grass. They like green grass and they hate all other colors of grass. And they can swim. Alligators and sharks sometimes eat real rabbits, but Death Rabbits can eat alligators and sharks. They also drink while they swim, because it's easier.

Fluffel the Death Rabbit lives in flowers. Real flowers. Not fake flowers. He likes to eat fake flowers. And Fluffel has superpowers so he can save the other Death Rabbits. Lasers come out of his eyes and he spits out poisonous carrots which he feeds to people who don't like rabbits. And he can fly. And controls wind, water, hot lava, and fire. And he controls zombies who live in graves. And he can make people evil and enslave them.

But Fluffel likes me, so I sleep without a nightlight. Because he eats people who sleep with nightlights on.

If you scratch Fluffel's belly, he'll like you. Which is why I like scratching his belly.

He eats houses sometimes because he has a big mouth.

The end.

Medusa and Her Cat

*Unlike my niece's effort, Monsty Eye, my nephew did physically write this one himself. In fact, other than some references to stories I told to him (and a short film I showed him), I had zero influence in the writing of this . That stated, it has been edited for spelling and grammar and I did pick the title. Fear not however, for his mother can enjoy the original handwritten version whenever she wants... as long as she doesn't lose the notebook it is written in, of course.

-JeffScape

It is a dark night and a little girl named Kaitlin, and her big sister Maredeth, were walking home from school because they missed the bus. So they walked home all by themselves. But then there were two paths.

So Kaitlin said, "Let's go left."

Then Maredith said, "No, we go right."

Then they started to fight over which way to go. Then it got past midnight and they were both very hungry and so tired. Then they fell asleep. When Kaitlin woke up, Maredith was reading a book.

Then Kaitlin said, "Hey, Sister, what are you reading?"

Then Maredith said, "We've got to get out of here!"

"Why?" asked Kaitlin.

"This place is haunted!"

"No, it's not," said Kaitlin.

"Oh, you're right. I'm just crazy. Let's continue our journey."

Then it got dark and they fell asleep. When Kaitlin woke up, Maredith was missing a leg and was bleeding really bad, so Kaitlin woke Maredith up. Then Maredith was screaming.

"What's wrong?" Kaitlin asked.

"Look out, Kaitlin!" screamed Maredith.

Then Kaitlin turned around. "What's going on?"

"See?" asked Maredith. "I told you this placed was haunted."

When they fell asleep, Kaitlin woke from a scream. "What's wrong?" she asked.

"I saw something eating your arm," replied Maredith.

When Kaitlin looked at her arm she started screaming. "Maredith! What was eating my arm?"

"It was a cat with arms!" Maredith answered. "I'll be a lookout tonight."

But when Kaitlin woke up, Maredith was gone. But that wasn't all. Her feet were gone. Kaitlin started crying. Then she saw something move. Then something walked up to her with snake hair and the last thing Kaitlin saw was Maredith inside of stone.

Monsty Eye

*This is the story my niece told to me a while back. It originally appeared at my site, Irreverent Irrelevance, on May 11 of 2010. I assure you, the words and story are completely hers (with some editing for grammar) though she did not physically write it herself. That's the next step.

And in case you're wondering why I'm appearing here, well, it's not exactly advisable to allow a little girl free reign on a blog now, is it?

-JeffScape

This is a story about Monsty Eye. He eats people who have bad dogs. Yesterday, he found somebody with a bad dog, so he took him to his lab. Oh, yeah, Monsty Eye has a lab full of other kinds of monsters, like the Sock Zombie and the Daylight Vampire. The Sock Zombie eats children who wear socks to bed and the Daylight Vampire eats children who sleep with nightlights on. The Daylight Vampire actually came to my house last night, but my uncle bribed him to go eat some other kids by giving him some candy. That's why there were candy wrappers on the kitchen floor this morning.

Anyway, Monsty Eye likes to eat people who have bad dogs. My neighbors have a bad dog. His name name is Lenny and he's a weener dog. I don't know how to spell weener, but my brother might. He's too busy playing Nintendo Wii though. And he peed on the toilet seat this morning. The neighbor girl doesn't take baths, so Monsty Eye ate her last night, I think. She stinks. I hope he ate her. Maybe that will teach her to clean herself.

Then Monsty Eye ate Cameron, who my uncle has never met, but I told him that Cameron has a bad dog. Cameron is my friend, but he should be eaten by now, so I guess I won't be playing with him anymore.

Then Monsty Eye ate Logan, my brother, but he left me alone. Logan doesn't have dogs, but my uncle's dog Jasper (he's a German Shepherd) barked at Logan because Logan is bad. So Monsty Eye ate Logan, because he also likes to eat bad people who dogs don't like.

Monsty Eye is a monster eyeball. I forgot to tell you that. But that's how Monsty Eye got his name.

Then Monsty Eye ate Colin, my cousin, because Colin is a brat and monster eyeballs don't like brats, either.

The next day the monster eyeball was full so he went back home to his lab and never came back again.

The End.

Whoops...

A little while ago I posted a story that I transcribed for my niece, who is all of 6 years old. She's in a monster phase (and is completely unafraid, mind you) and told me the story of a monstrous eyeball. If you're interested, you can read it here: Monsty Eye.

Anyway, upon finding out that his little sister had a story floating around the Internet, my nephew took it upon himself to write his own monster tale. That led to my niece's desire to tell even more stories, which led to my nephew's desire to write more himself. So, since one thing leads to another, I discussed their new-found hobby with their mother and created this blog as a home for their storytelling (and, hopefully, physical writing).

I mean, why not? I can think of worse hobbies for little kids...