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One day I was spending the night and it was around Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:20:36 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/mary-shaw.html Beware the stare of Mary Shaw She had no children only dolls And if you see her in your dreams make sure you never ever scream For she is taking Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:14:06 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/when-the-log-rolls-over-we-die.html One day there was a boy. A boy home alone. He was just about to go to bed when he heard a spooky song, When the log rolls over... we die! It Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:09:45 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-white-house.html There was once an old house in the back of the woods. A mental woman lived there but one day a man came to take her to a mental institution. She Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:06:51 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/only-one-wizards-curse.html Adam had a very cold heart. He never cared about anyone. His actions also showed how cruel he was. Adam gambled and was a wanted thief. One day, Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:03:17 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/dead-mans-liver.html There was a boy called Johnny. He loved to eat chocolate and candies and sweets, and he was getting quite fat from it. His mother had decided to ban Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:00:36 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-mortition.html Once there was a 12 year old boy, named Jack. He was 5'11. His parents died in a fire, so he went with his uncle Lu who is a mortition. His Uncle was Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:58:51 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-giggling-girls.html It was cloudy and spooky that day. Dried leaves lay all over the streets and lawns. You could see the moon approaching from behind the dead dry trees. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:52:58 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-cry.html Dianna was home alone watching the news while her parents were gone. She saw there was a murderer that sounded like a crying baby in order to get its Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:22:09 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-freak.html In my class there is the freak. She has long wild hair, it's never tied back, with dark eyes that have no light in them. She sits alone at the back of Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:21:13 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-murder-in-maour-county.html The year is 1891. The day has started out strangely enough, but is yet to grow stranger. The sun has not shone this morning. In it's stead, bitter Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:20:22 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-night-in-the-lake.html There is a huge lake right in the center of our town. We call it Lake Willow, because it is surrounded by Weeping Willow trees. It used to be Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:51 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/what-lurks-beneath.html I lay on my back in the warm sand, staring up at the sky. It was a brilliant blue, with not a cloud in it. It was an incredible day to be at the lake. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:19:21 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/unknown-predator.html Just two days before your sweet sixteen, Molly is your father going to throw a big party said my best friend Jessica. No, he says we need the money Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:32 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/laughter.html Debbie and her best friend Torrie were always side by side. During lunch they were always together. There as a girl named Kelly who always sat by them Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:54 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-cannibal.html Once there were two friends named Matthew and Nick. They were walking back in the woods one afternoon. They heard a twig snap and turned around Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:06:24 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/terror-town.html They say starting a new life is never easy. Well today i test that theory. You see just last week there was a terible accident while i was at a Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:04:18 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-mad-man-in-the-dark.html It was one dark night, and the darkness was like a big sheet of black silk hanging over Northrepps, the snow fell like raindrops above the nights Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:31 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-baby-buried-alive.html Two gentlemen were working in the town's small general store. The store was quiet and no customers were shopping until she walked in. A small frail Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:01 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/past-experiences.html Everyone at GlenLake High knew who Shannon Greg was. Her father worked for the production company of the local news station Beta7 News. Whenever he Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:56:48 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/there-is-room-for-one-more.html A business man had to go to New York on a business trip. Instead of staying at a hotel he decided to stay with old friends in their mansion outside of Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:59:21 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/east-side-cemetery.html One night a girl went to the east part of sleepy hollow cemetery... no one went to the east part. No one at all. Molly Morgan was a very strange Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:54:50 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/run-run-as-fast-as-you-can.html Once there was a newly married couple who moved into a new home in Virginia. Everyone said that the house was cursed with very bad luck, but the Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:40:08 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-engagement-ring.html One day a young man named Seth went to a jewelry store to buy his girlfriend, Leslie, an engagement ring. The salesman came up to him and asked, Can I Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:31:38 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-night-he-came-to-visit.html It was a Friday night and it was a rainy day. I had to take care of my two younger sisters Sammie and Janet. My parents decided to go to a party and Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:20:15 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/abandoned-library.html When I was in Year 6, several older girls from my old school went to an abandoned old library. They sat in a circle on the floor silently, placed a Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:21:25 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-painter.html My friend came to visit me for few days, so I gave him a room whose windows would open to the main road. Across the main road just opposite to my Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:16:37 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/phineas.html There was once a small motel in South Carolina. There lived Manny. Manny Shayne was a talented ventriloquist, and his main puppet was Phineas. Phineas Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:49:04 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/cursed-kid.html A little girl was at school for the first time she had moved so many times you lost count. No one knew anything about her, why she came, where she Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:43:02 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/something-is-there.html it was a cold dark night and mary sat alone in her living room entranced by her book, before she could even turn to the next page a sreaching noise Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:23:08 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/get-out-of-the-car.html It was a late winters night. I was driving down a one way road. It was raining pretty hard and I couldn't hardly see what was in front of me. Therfore Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:17:01 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-sister.html There were two sisters named Jennifer and Sara. Sara was the youngest and Jennifer was the oldest. Jennifer had asthma. So she couldn't run a lot or Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:38 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-sister.html There were two sisters named Jennifer and Sara. Sara was the youngest and Jennifer was the oldest. Jennifer had asthma. So she couldn't run a lot or Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:12:38 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/i-cant-find-you.html Once, there was a man who had a wife. They often fought, so one day, the man decided to murder his wife. They lived in an apartment building, so he Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:01:18 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/harold.html When it got hot in the valley, Thomas and Alfred drove their cows up to a cool, green pasture in the mountains to graze. Usually they stayed there Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:00 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/jenny.html Jenny got tucked into bed one night by her mother. Her father was down stairs on the couch taking a nap. An hour after Jenny went to sleep she heard a Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:50:19 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/spider-attack.html My name is Matthew Knight and yes I am a little scared at stuff, especially spiders. I was standing there looking like an idiot with everyone laughing Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:47:17 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/poke-a-stick-at.html Three mates, John, Mike and Frank with their pig dogs are out in the bush before daylight one morning when they start boasting of their own dog's Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:40:30 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/my-first-driving-class.html It was a special day, my first driving class. My friend was to teach me to drive. I got up early, changed my clothes, which I had kept it ready the Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:36:31 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/fred.html A young boy name john, age 15 was working on his father's farm near the corn field. He was working on the farm for quite a while. It was getting dark Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:32:17 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/bad-face-job.html Mia never liked the way she looked. Julie had been Mia's best friend her whole life, and she knew about Mia's insecurities. One day she found Mia Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:26:02 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/bad-spirits.html So my friend and I were hanging out at my house during midnight. My parents were out eating dinner. My friend and I were watching the scariest movie Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:14:37 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-book2.html I woke up with a jolt. Who put my alarm volume so high?. I went downstairs to have some cereal. As I poured the milk I asked myself, do the majority Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:05:04 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/a-picture-to-die-for.html Joey had been scared to sleep alone his whole life. Even though he was now seven, he still whined to his mother about it. You need to be a big boy Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:51:26 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/bambammetybam.html There was a group of shooters that were going to a shooting ground. Now at this particular shooting ground there were men that you had to aim for. The Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:46:34 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-photograph.html Mum, what's that? I used to ask my mum, holding a yellowed, aged photograph in my pudgy fingers. Oh! That's just an old family photograph, nothing Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:49:00 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-sleepover.html Sleep-overs are me and my friend's favorite activity. I haven't had one in a while, so I called one of my friends. Gretta, why did you call? My friend Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:27:08 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/mark-and-michelle.html Mark and Michelle are a young couple in love, living life to the max and happily married. Mark works as a fourth year apprentice carpenter and was Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:13:50 GMT http://www.short-stories-help-children.com/the-haunting-doll.html Once upon a time my mom and I were looking for a present for my birthday and I was looking for something I might want when just then I saw the cutest Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:00:33 GMT