by P. J. Night
“Are you reading about Wisconsin again?” Whitney asked.
Her dad quickly closed the laptop cover. He tried to smile, but his worried expression remained. Whitney nodded knowingly. “I know you’re concerned about what happened in Wisconsin,” she said. “But don’t worry. All that’s in the past now. All I’m ever going to say about that state is that they make great cheese. And speaking of cheese, what’s for breakfast?”
What does the Marked Monster look like? Why don’t you and your friends draw it together? Have one friend start by drawing the monster’s head, then have another friend draw its body, another its wings, and so on.
Do you want to turn your sleepover into a creepover? Telling a spooky story is a great way to set the mood. P. J. Night has written a few sentences to get you started. Fill in the rest of the story and have fun scaring your friends.
You can also collaborate with your friends on this story by taking turns. Have everyone at your sleepover sit in a circle. Pick one person to start. She will add a sentence or two to the story, cover what she wrote with a piece of paper leaving only the last word or phrase visible, and then pass the story to the next girl. Once everyone has taken a turn, read the scary story you created together aloud!
I remember it like it was yesterday. One minute I was walking through the bright, cheery woods on a lovely spring day. The next, storm clouds had gathered overhead and I could hear rumbling. But it wasn’t the rumbling of thunder. It was the sound of something running behind me, pounding the earth below it. Something big. I began to run as fast as I could, but I could feel it gaining on me. I turned around and saw it. It was …
A lifelong night owl, P. J. Night often works furiously into the wee hours of the morning, writing down spooky tales and dreaming up new stories of the supernatural and otherworldly. Although P. J.’s whereabouts are unknown at this time, we suspect the author lives in a drafty, old mansion where the floorboards creak when no one is there and the flickering candlelight creates shadows that creep along the walls. We truly wish we could tell you more, but we’ve been sworn to keep P. J.’s identity a secret … and it’s a secret we will take to our graves!
What’s better than reading a really spooky story?
Writing your own!
You just read a great book. It gave you ideas, didn’t it? Ideas for your next story: characters…plot…setting… You can’t wait to grab a notebook and a pen and start writing it all down.
It happens a lot. Ideas just pop into your head. In between classes entire story lines take shape in your imagination. And when you start writing, the words flow, and you end up with notebooks crammed with your creativity.
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