The moment someone sees you walking through the walls. You’d just talked to them yesterday.

Wendy Yoon, 11

I put on my battle armor and sighed as I heard my door creak open. “Miss, the skeleton army is ready to wreak havoc.”

Michelle Kinary, 11

We sat down to dinner, not knowing where Father had disappeared to. Once I took the first bite of meatloaf, I found him.

David Kelley, 11

I appreciated my work of painting my bedroom walls a deep red. But my daughter’s bloodless body laid limp on the floor, and she wouldn’t stop laughing.

Alixandria Gavin, 11

It was a perfectly normal day – until my sister grabbed my wrist and said, “please wake up.”

Eunjee Chong, 12

My caring mother tucks me in when I wake up from a nightmare; it calms me, and I feel my eyes close and darkness take me and why can’t I breathe—

My eyes shoot open, and I’m relieved that it was a dream until I see my mother, standing there, smiling with a blanket in her hands.

Sravani Pathuru, 10

When I hear my parents call for me, I call back, but they don’t hear me. And when they come in my room, they start to scream, and I’m not sure why – until I look down and see the blood.

Veronica Smith, 10

Father tucks me in every night and whispers “she did it.” But my mom tells me someone took him away years ago.

Tyler Chapman, 11

I needed some sleep so the bossman granted me one. Eternally :).

David Kelley, 11

I can’t sleep, she whispered,crawling into bed with me.I woke up cold, clutching the dress she was buried in.

Jonbenet  Williams, 10

Jenny told me that she wanted my eyes. Mommy told me to stop talking to my dolls.

Eunjee Chong, 12

I glanced at my reflection on my way out the door, idly wondering if a reflection lives and dies when someone walks past a mirror. As I left, I died.

Catherine Caprio, 12

“Blood for the blood gods!” The obelisk in my backyard says the strangest things.

John Miner, 11

Tim always told Jane he’d steal her heart. It always flattered her, until one night he really did.

Tyler Chapman, 11

I was nervous to meet the new people when they started talking to me, but they helped me through my life and became my closest friends. Still, I have never understood why they made me kill so many people.

Enoch Ng, 11

I asked the waiter for A BOWL OF soup. He gave me EBOLA soup.

David Kelley, 11

The longer I wore them, the more I could see ghosts. He had such pretty eyes, despite the smell.

Alixandria Gavin, 11

She wondered why she was casting two shadows. After all, there was only one single light bulb.

Chloe Pittman, 11

I unleashed my fangs and tried to fight back, but it was no use. The monster simply laughed at my puny efforts and plunged her wooden stake into my heart, filling the air with the smell of garlic and my own burning flesh.

Catherine Caprio, 12

I had an iron deficiency, so the doctor pumped me full of iron until it popped out my body, Which is why I’m  writing this from the gates of hell.

David Kelley, 11

I feel weightless and free, but my neck hurts a lot. I guess the noose isn’t helping all that much.

Eunjee Chong, 12

I showed a picture of my recent boyfriend to my grandparents. They showed me a picture of his obituary from fifty years ago.

Shruti Rajagopal, 12

I was asked to write a two-sentence horror story. I decided to plagiarize it off of my ransom note.

Sravani Pathuru, 10

THE RANSOM NOTE: you have till noon. mortals.

A dripping sound coming from my bathroom wakes me from my sleep. When I go to turn off the water, the dripping is gone and the tub is stained with red.

Veronica Smith, 10

A man sat at the head of a table with all his friends ready to celebrate his birthday. They all sat poised, and still with their heads slumped down, they had all been sitting there, patiently waiting day by day; they never missed a single birthday party.

Tyler Chapman, 11

I could really use some nails to hang pictures; but alas, the nails enter the coffin through the outside and there isn’t really room to hang pictures either. What a sucky life,  (afterlife, I mean).

David Kelley, 11

I often feel a heaviness in my heart, but it always makes me feel better. Its head slithers out of my throat, looks me in the eyes and makes all the pain go away.

Antonio Austin, 11

I don’t think Jane likes my father all that much. She always leaves his bones left over.

Eunjee Chong, 12

I’m watching a movie late one night when I hear a baby laugh in the next room. There’s nobody home, and I don’t have a baby.

Rebecca Rodriguez, 11

The last person alive sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door.

Zach Harvey, 10

For those with a sense of humor:

My alarm woke me up that morning, the clock read 6:05. School was in three hours.

Megan Kalina, 12

It’s three minutes until game time. The cable is down.

Hannah Markins, 11

One-word horror story: Monday.

Enoch Ng, 11