Hi guys,
This is the activity I suggested the other day in class.As in every contest of some importance, there are always some rules, and the
ones below are MINE.
The most important thing is that you all enjoy while getting some writing practice.
THE BEST OF LUCK to you all!!
A Horror story
♥Stories must be written in English
♥Stories must be entirely your own work and must be previously unpublished.
♥Only one entry per person can be submitted
♥ Stories may be 130-150 words long
♥Stories shall be titled
♥Post your entries under this post by 11.50 p.m on November 5, 2017. Late entries will not be considered.Write your full name and group course at the foot of your story.
♥Prizes to be determined
♥Winners will be announced the first week of November, online and on this blog
Some pictures that might inspire you below.
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Never come back!
ResponderEliminarA couple of elderly, Cassandra and John, live in a house near to a high mountain.
In 1990 the Fishler family arrives. They are a mum, a dad, their son Kevin and the grandfather. Cassandra and John are cheerful, so they invite the Fishlers to have dinner. An hour later, the grandfather goes to the bathroom. Suddenly the lights go out and Kevin falls to the ground and is dragged into the kitchen. A few seconds later, the lights come on and the grandfather appears hanging in the bathroom.
Horrified, they look for Kevin all over the house and see their son being dragged out of the house with a knife stuck in his belly. Devastated, the father shouts the name of his wife and come back inside the house. Then, he sees blood traces towards the basement. When he opens the basement door, Cassandra pushes him towards the stairs. Bruised, he gets up and approaches to a small well full of blood.
Teodora Julia Moscardó Molano
Group: 34 (C1)
Thanks a lot, Teo.
EliminarI'm really intrigued. What happens next?
It is an open end so you think about what creepy end will happen next.
EliminarOctober 31
ResponderEliminarThe worst thing that could happen to someone happened to him on October 31. That Halloween night he lost the love of his life. Of course that happened a long time ago, so long ago that he could barely remember exactly how it happened. But every October 31 he felt the same excruciating pain in his muscles, in his bones and in his soul.
At least he didn't have to go to work anymore, that was without a doubt the worst part. His plan for the day was to take a couple of sleeping pills, go to sleep and get up the next day. But when he was ready to go to bed someone knocked on the door. Normally he wouldn't have opened the door to the trick-or-treaters, but he felt like his tired body was going on his own.
When he opened the door he didn’t see anyone at the street, only a little girl in a costume standing alone in front of him:
- Hi Daddy! I'm coming for you!
Coral Ferrero Ibáñez
Group: C1-34
thanks for your story, Coral.
EliminarSo creepy, I must admit!
Halloween...a great nigth to play a dirty trick on foreigners
ResponderEliminarThere was once a place were foreigners were not only but also strangers. People from this Town were odd and creepy. They loved to scare outsiders with risky tricks which anyone wasn’t used to understand.
The first full moon night of November 1954 everything started when one couple of eery blonde sisters, who remembered me the ones of Children of the Corn, suddenly disappeared. They belonged to the ghoulish family of The Gravestones.
After some time...10 years later, they reappeared but no one could recognize them. By the time they returned everyone was changed a lot, their family was no more in Town and the shock of their mysterious departure had mistreated the population.
After the «newcoming» was when the tricks started. The legend says that «If you are visiting the Town and you meet the sisters the night of Halloween, something very scary will happen to you». It can look downritght scary, but it is absolutely a true story.
Pilar de Luna
group C1-34
Well done!
EliminarI bet it is
thanks a lot.
ANGUISH
ResponderEliminarI am sitting at the dining table. Although I am eating a skimpy dinner, its taste reminds me the light of my life, the sweet of my heart. Thanks God, my wife and me are both together, facing the music of this frightening crisis time we are living through.
However, it is becoming so long. I am well aware that we both need to work, though. On top of that, we cannot see each other because our labor time is diametrically opposed. I miss her every night, at every moment. So that, when I go to bed I start shaking in fear. Loneliness is becoming unbearable. I am truly on the edge of the abyss, because, lately, she has not delivered any message to me.
Before taking my sleeping peels, I am getting used to looking over our old memories: photos, recordings, recipes, and even some death notice. Later, I flinch in bed due to some terrifying thoughts, and I get into a dreadful dark all of a sudden. On the contrary, she prefers getting absorbed by TV series. She is totally hooked on them.
Today, there is a white envelope on the table, my wife's name is written on it. I fear the worst. Is it an invoice? Our power bill? An eviction notice? I feel anguished. An agonizing pain comes to me. Indeed, the disaster: two weeks ago Neftlix subscription had expired. Then, where is she now?
Dark comes back again...
TONI RICO
C1- Group 34
Wow!
EliminarI can imagine myself flinching to and fro in bed overwhelmed with so many issues.
thanks a lot
MIRROR
ResponderEliminarShe woke up so tired. It had been a bad night because of a splitting headache. Slowly, she came into the bathroom, and a chill went down her back. She turned her head to the mirror and looked it horrified. Her face wasn’t there, it was the face of another woman, and she recognised her immediately. She was the person she hated the most, a colleague who had betrayed her once. Totally disturbed, she came up with the idea her colleague supplanted her in order to cause some damage, so her family could be in danger.
Driving faster, she arrived at her daughter school. “Do it” whispered, and came into. Her enemy was there hugging her daughter. They looked at each other, and the colleague put her hands on her daughter’s neck, not threatening her, only trying to protect the child.
Suddenly, the woman of the mirror understood what had happened. The mirror had reflected the truth.
Maite Moreno
Group 37 - C1
It could be a real blockbuster broadcast on TV!
Eliminarthanks a lot!
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ResponderEliminarGOOD MORNING GHASTLY ZOMBIES!
ResponderEliminarDaniel opened his eyes and wasn’t sure he was. He realized he was alone in a haunted house. It was an old house, it was a noticeable humidity in the environment and the crackling of the wood when he was walking around the mansion caused him a creepy – crawly sensation. Since he arrived, he noticed some monstrous presence observing him, which made his hair stand on end, and, by course, he couldn’t imagine what had happened to him.
Darkness prevailed in the house, until a huge chandelier that was poured from the ceiling began to emit flashes of light. Then, Daniel turned his head and saw in front of him a huge and terrifying herd of spirits wishing to bite him and to suck his blood out. Swiftly, he decided to escape.
Five minutes later, Daniel turned his head and saw the herd coming closer. Slowly, Daniel began to feel tired and he decided to stop and rest, but when he looked around him, Daniel realized he was trapped in a muddy area and ghosts were still following him.
When he got away from the mud it was too late, the spirits reached Daniel, they bite him and...
- "Daniel woke up! It’s time to go to school and you’re going to be late!” His mum said.
Xavier Calatayud
C1 - Group 34
Wow!
EliminarAbsolutely spooky, that was!
Loved the final twist in the end.!
thanks a lot
VAMPIRE TOWN
ResponderEliminarOne day Maria had a nightmare. It was about vampires who were taking kids all over the world and bringing them to Vampire Town. She couldn’t bear her nightmare and woke up screaming. She didn’t know she was screaming until her sister Adriana woke up and turned on the lamp. Maria closed her mouth and sat on her bed, staring at the floor. ‘’Stop yelling. If you wake up mum, she is going to get angry! The day after, her mum asked Maria ‘’What happened last night? Why were you screaming?’’ Maria giggled and said ‘’I had a nightmare, again. And it was about vampires.’’ Then, Mum said to them ‘’Are you taking it as a joke? Nightmares are not jokes, take them seriously.’’ Two days after that, Maria was in the bathroom , she looked in the mirror and noticed something on her arm. Maria read the words and she realized that the words were VAMPIRE TOWN from her nightmare. Then, Maria shouted to Adriana ‘’you wrote it on my arm! I know you did. Stop lying!’’ Adriana was astonished and asked Maria ‘’what are you trying to show me? ‘’ Maria was really angry and showed her arm to Adriana. ‘’Look at my arm! These two words are from my nightmare!’’ ‘’Maria, there is nothing there. What’s wrong with you?’’. Maria started to cry and went out the bathroom to tell mum about the mistery words.
This night, Maria decided to stay awake in order to avoid having the nightmare once again but, unfortunately, she couldn’t. Suddenly, during the nightmare while a vampire was approaching to her with his teeth covered by kids blood…. She woke up crying and when she opened her eyes, she saw a little red door in front of her that she had never seen before. She decided to open it and... surprisingly, she saw mum wearing a vampire costume, she was a REAL VAMPIRE surrounded by hundreds of children from her nightmare!!! She closed the door and went out the house screaming ‘’ MY MUM IS A VAMPIRE!!! HELP!!!’’.
Adriana Botella
C1- Group 37
I can't take your story off my mind!
EliminarSo eerie!
thanks a lot for your contribuition!
CREEPY NIGHT
ResponderEliminarThe idea was spending a great time outside with some friends. Nothing augured that nightmarish.
We planned to visit another old friend who lived in Ireland. He had a huge mansion which belonged their great-grandparents. It had been neglected for many years.
The first night came a tremendous storm and we couldn't go anywhere. We decided to play to invoke the spirit of the house's owner. After unsuccessful attempts, his soul appeared!!! We had goose bumps and were so spooked that we hardly couldn't to breathe.
Suddenly, we started to listen to loud bangs everywhere. In the middle of the mysterious night, a monstrous and evil haunted appeared and told us we had to leave the gloomy house as soon as possible. In fact, it seemed to have psychic powers because of his unsettling voice. Unfortunately, it was an eerie moment, so before we went mad, we ran away in the rain. When we were exhausted from running, we received a call from our Irish friend. All of that had been a spine-chilling and disagreeable joke because of the Halloween's night.
Pam Pascual
C1- Group 37
Creepy that was!
EliminarThanks for your story
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ResponderEliminarTHE HALLOWEEN LEGEND.
ResponderEliminarA couple try to have fun the night of Halloween, one of them said that had heard about an ancient urband legend that said, if you look at yourself in front of a mirror in the darkness holding a candel, you could see your own burial in the mirror.
So they look at each other in a funny way, making fun of the urban legend. They decided to shut each other up in a room to find out if It was really true.
Suddenly, the guy was scared-stiff, He couldn't stop looking at the mirror, It was creepy, He could see his whole family weeping for him in a ceremony with his own body in a coffin. He felt spooked, and run away in order to stop his girlfriend, but it was too late, when he opened the door, She was looking at the floor petrified and in tears, She hugged him terridied and explained to him what she had seen, she could see herself buried meanwhile she could hear weeping bitterly her relatives and friends.
A month later, both of them passed away after a dreadful accident.
Do you think it was just a pure hideous coincidence or a punishment?
would you dare to challange the urband legend?
Pilar Cano,c1 from group 34
Eerie and creepy that is!
Eliminarthanks a lot, Pilar
This is your song.
ResponderEliminarAttentive as always, his last sigh was to whisper to her ears “how wonderful life is while you’re in the world”, the famous Elton John chorus, once her favourite song.
One day before, conscious of his imminent death, he had promised her “if exists afterlife, I would look for you, I would find you and we would be together forever. Just wait for me”.
However, she enjoyed looking his death, savouring every second the cirrhosis consumed his weak body. But once he had died, she understood she had to run away, to escape of all their memories.
Nevertheless fear doesn’t understand about time and distances. Today, 1000 miles away, that nosy waiter whistling Elton John melody, brought her his unforgettable drunk breath, his hoarse voice singing at the rhythm of his hard punches… Then, she understood he always would be with her. Shaking in fear, only the touch of her warm pee sliding trough her scars was able to awake her from that painful song.
Vicent Vidal
C1 - Group 37
Well done!
EliminarActually, I did not quite get the last lines of your story..
Thanks for your contribution!
“ IT REALLY HAPPENED ”
ResponderEliminarIt was a winter foggy night, the full moon barely filtered through the thick mist, the stormy wind whizzing past him as he was coming home after a strenuous working shift.
He could hardly see the path beside the cemetery walls, suddenly he heard some weird noises while somebody with long sharpened nails seized him tightly.
He was fighting a great deal without seeing his enemy´s face but in the end he could get rid of his dead attacker and rushed home in a shabby state, his clothes torn out, his face clawed and bleeding.
He spent the whole night in a sleepless mental turmoil and, in the terrible darkness of his room, he vividly saw the Death coming to take him.
Next day he was really freaked-out by the sole idea of having to walk near the graveyard, but dawn gave him confidence and, when passing by the same spot, he began to laugh hysterically.
How he could imagine that the night before he had only been trapped by a prickly bramble !
Definitely he wouldn´t confess anybody about his embarrassing experience.
Cecilia Blanquer Micó
C1 - Group 37
Nice piece of writing!
EliminarThanks a lot, Cecilia.
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ResponderEliminarSorry, I sent it twice!
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ResponderEliminarTHE ARISTOCRACY PAINTING
ResponderEliminarA group of teenagers decided to go to a haunted house on October 31. A typical plan for Halloween night. They were not afraid at all of sleeping far away from the downtown as they didn’t believe much in horror stories.
As they were entering the house, they all suddenly had goosebumps because of the freezing atmosphere. The young started to look round the place, looking forward to find some creepy stuff as ancient dolls, mirrors, a rope hanging from the ceiling… but their expectations were frustrated as they did not find anything interesting but some paintings.
A grumpy boy did not stop complaining about the fact that they were being tricked and he wished for something bad to happen that night.
To entertain themselves, they went painting to painting through all the big dinning room. The grumpy boy, called Charles, was staring at the last big painting, in which an aristocracy family posed, when suddenly he saw a being on the painting dragging towards him. He was petrified and he had not had time to run away and a pair of arms came out of the painting to drag him in.
His friends watched horrified the situation and immediately they escape from the haunted house.
Apparently, they were not being fooled and horror stories truly exist.
Blanca Real Francés
C1- Group 34
Absolutely, I couldn't agree more with you on that.
EliminarThanks , Blanca.
THE SOFT DOLL
ResponderEliminarWhen Brenda was about 15 years old, her family and she used to spend a couple of weeks in a big old house located in a small town in the middle of nowhere. Although, there was a lot of countryside around that area, the place itself was quite sinister.
They would have a furry Sheltie dog called Nala, Brenda’s parents didn’t want Nala slept in her bedroom but when all of them were sleeping, she would put at the foot of Brenda’s bed. Sometimes, she woke up with her staring intently at the rocking chair which was in her bedroom and growling.
One night, a sudden sound in the rocking chair startled Brenda, she opened her eyes pretty much immediately and Nara started barking, When Brenda saw a soft doll rocking in the rocking chair staring at her and singing terrifying lullabies, she was scared stiff and then started to scream. Brenda was a scaredy-cat so her parents went straight away. They could still see it before disappearing. Perhaps she had been there since day one.
Early next morning, they asked the headstrong owner of the house about that, he said to them that a woman and her little daughter had died in strange circumstances last October 31. Consequently, they packed quickly and like a bat out of hell they didn’t stop driving till they got home.
Teresa Bataller
Group 37 - C1
You did make my hair stand on end! So scary!
EliminarGood stuff!
Thanks a lot for your story
By the skin of my teeth! :D
ResponderEliminarWHAT A TERRIFYING JOKE!
Everything took place a Halloween’s day more than 20 years ago. At that time Halloween wasn’t so celebrated in Spain as nowadays. I was alone at home at night and all lights were turned off all of the sudden and I started to listen to somebody whispering with a scaring and loud voice. I got scared a lot!
That voice became higher and I understood “You’re going to die” repeatedly, so I got desperated and shouted loudly trying to get help. At that moment, I tried to leave home but the door was locked. I hit it but nobody listened to me.
The only thing I could already do was to hide. Definitely, I decided to do it under the nearest bed from the main door, but the “ghost” arrived at this room immediately (I heard its steps) and discovered me. It seemed to be a girl. I started to yell again and she said “Excalibur”! She couldn’t avoid laughing out loud.
Then, I realised that everything had been a joke of my sister who was incredibly naughty. She got her back on me once more. She used to pick on me (always joking, of course) when we were children as she is older than me. But that time was a really heavy joke, so that’s the reason why I got really angry with her. She was dressed up and with her face painted white apart from taking a knife!!!
Jose Sanz Insa
Group 34 - C1
So creepy that was!!
EliminarWell done, Jose.
Thanks a lot.