Write about someone finding a monster under their bed.

Posted in Kids on Oct 21, 2022

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“The Monster & The Thing-a-Ma-Jig” by Kathleen Papageorgio

Submitted to Contest #169

9 year old Johnny Jones lived in an old and spacious Victorian home with his grandmother, Nana Jones. It sat on 10 acres of oak trees in the hills overlooking the city. Ever since he could remember the atmosphere in the house and the surrounding grounds was heavy, giving the inhabitants a feeling of dread. It gave off a kind of creepiness that once it stuck to you it was hard to shake off. Even though he brushed off all of the unexplained and mysterious events that would happen to him there, Johnny knew that most of them were bey...

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“The Monster Under Juanita's Bed” by Tricia Shulist

Submitted to Contest #169

THE MONSTER UNDER JUANITA’S BED“Okay, you can come out now.”Juanita looked at her closed bedroom door, flopped onto her stomach and leaned over the side of her bed, looking under it.What she saw was truly hideous. It was a monster. Its body was covered in patchy grey fur with ulcerating pale skin the colour of curdled milk. Its hands were crabbed with grotesque black claws sprouting from the end of its deformed fingers. The feet were cloven hoofs that were split with fungus growing between the cracks. It smelled horr...

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