I woke up in the middle of the night, palms sweating. “I’m thirsty,” I think as I sit up in bed and grab my night clothes. “That nightmare was worse than the others I’ve recently had. Why are they getting worse?” I think to myself as I get a glass of water. “raaaccchhh,” I spin around, breaking the empty glass. Nothing there but my cat named Leo, coughing up a hairball. “Gross, Leo, not on the carpet,” I say as I run over to stop him. But as I get over there, he starts transforming before my eyes into a giant spiky monster! I run as fast as I can. My feet are cut and bleeding after running through the glass, but I can’t feel the pain for some reason. I stop, and the monster/Leo cat catches up to me! Ahhhhhhhh! But just then, it fades away along with the room. I’m face-to-face with fear itself. “Hello and welcome to where you belong, heh heh heh.”
Bob Dunlap, Bennington
Great Brook School
Age 10