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Writer Notes
A birdie with a yellow bill Hopped upon my windowsill, Cocked his shining eye and said: "Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepyhead!" ~ Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Sheerak
By: shawn
“Good night sweetie.”
“Good night mommy. I’ll see you in the
morning.”
“Okay, DJ. Sweet dreams.” She says as she kisses
his forehead then walks across the room to the window, she
pulls it open. “It’ll get hot in here tonight.
Now get some sleep you have to get up early for school.”
She says as she walks out of the room and pulls the door
closed.
“Mommy. Will you leave the door open a bit?”
“You are getting too old for this, DJ. But I’ll
leave it open a crack.”
“Thank you mommy.” DJ says as she disappears
through the door and moves down the hall out of sight. When
he is sure she is gone he reaches over to his bedside table
and pulls a flashlight from within its single drawer.
Pulling the blanket up over his head he grabs several action
figures from the floor and begins playing with them under the
covers by flashlight. He plays quietly like this for several
minutes before there comes a noise. He jumps and throws the
toys onto the floor, thinking it is his mother coming back.
He frantically fumbles with the flashlight then lays down and
pulls the covers up to his neck. He closes his eyes in hopes
she will think he is sleeping.
His mother never comes.
Slowly he opens his eyes to look around for the noise when it
comes again. With a blur he sees something yellow outside his
window. He watches it closely trying to make out what it is
in the darkness. He pulls the flashlight out from under his
pillow where he had shoved it, and shines it out the window to
see a large skeletal head looking in on him. Tiny pinpoints
of flame erupt in the eye sockets and it hisses,
“Ain’t you shamed, you sleepyhead.” as it
comes through the window.
Comments
judy_ann
This story creeped me out. And it was well read. I really like the sound effects and the creepy background music. As for the writer, I think you were right on with staying with the simple plot.
- July 9, 2014
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DevlinRyder
This reminds me of the nightmares I use to have when I was a little kid. It was really cool reading this, as imagined by someone else. The writing is really good because it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Because you know something terrible is going to happen. I would definitely read more of...This reminds me of the nightmares I use to have when I was a little kid. It was really cool reading this, as imagined by someone else. The writing is really good because it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Because you know something terrible is going to happen. I would definitely read more of your stuff, dude. Keep up the good work.
- September 5, 2014
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Will
This was awesome. Keep up the good work shawn. I really liked lines 15 through 17.
- October 5, 2017
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This reminds me of the nightmares I use to have when I was a little kid. It was really cool reading this, as imagined by someone else. The writing is really good because it keeps you on the edge of your seat. Because you know something terrible is going to happen. I would definitely read more of your stuff, dude. Keep up the good work.