Our story begins in the woods on a Fall day. A girl named Piper was running with her brother Liam. They heard a scream deep in the woods. They were curious and ran towards the scream. When they got there they could not believe their eyes. There was a dead body on the ground. Piper was more scared than a squirrel getting run over by a car!  

They decided to investigate how it got there. After one hour passed, Liam and Piper were called in for dinner. They didn’t find anything. That night, they couldn’t sleep. They just thought about the body all night long.

The next day, they went back to the spot where the body was the day before, but THE BODY WAS GONE! Instead, there was a trail of footsteps. They were so big, big enough to belong to Bigfoot! Then they heard a sound… crunch, crunch, crunch. Liam and Piper looked around. Nothing. Crunch, crunch, crunch. The two ran as fast as they could. When they got back, Liam panted, “What was that?” “I do not know,” Piper answered. That night they snuck out and hid in a bush and waited for the murderer to come. Crunch, crunch, crunch. “The murderer,” Piper said. “Yes,” agreed Liam. “Ok, on three we jump out and get the murderer with the…Aaaaaaaaaa.”

They woke up in a scary, dark, and smokey environment. “Oh… you are finally awake,” said a deep, rough voice. “Ummm, where are we and who are you?” asked Piper in a dazed voice. “Oh, you are funny,” said the unknown voice. “Ummm, I am not kidding. Who are you?” “I am Satan.” “Ok, how do we know you are actually Satan and not someone dressed as him?” “C’mon, I have the horns and I am red!” “How do we go back to the earth?” sighed Liam.

Then little red people came wearing armor and within a blink of an eye Satan yelled,  “ATTACK!” “Aaaaaa,” screamed the kids. They fled as fast as they could. Then ,in a blink of an eye, they were in their backyard. They went in and ate dinner, got in PJs, brushed teeth, and went to bed. In the morning, the two woke up in their own beds. They quickly rushed to find each other to share about their nightmares. At that moment they realized they shared a nightmare.

Teagan White, Lyndeborough, Age 11

Wilton-Lyndeborough Cooperative Middle High School