Just a runaway witch. Chapter 1: the history of the Goodwills

Submitted into Contest #44 in response to: Write a story that starts with a character-revealing something unusual about themselves.... view prompt

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It was a Monday morning and that meant school.Sam’s alarm went off.It was five in the morning.She got out of bed and went to the bathroom,-Samantha Goodwill was a young 16 year old.Born on January 5,1998.Sam is an intelligent teenager, although her life is hard she still keeps going.She lives with her father,Tom Goodwill, her mother died from cancer when Sam was just a child.After her death Sam’s father was never the same, he drinks, smokes, and causes problems with the police.Sam on the other hand is very soft but she’s an emo, she wears everything in the color of black.People never thought of Sam as a nice person, they all thought that she was a witch, but she wasn’t At least not yet.-She brushed her teeth, changed clothes and got her backpack.Tom was asleep in the living room.Sam went to the kitchen and got her house keys.Tom woke up and looked at Sam,“Where do you think your going?” “Umm school” “Right okay well then be back by 8 pm.”don’t be late” Sam rolled her eyes and went out the door.She got out her phone and she put her earbuds on, she started walking, her school-Westfield High-was only 2 blocks away; she could have taken the bus , but she doesn’t like the people that ride the bus she used to go on.Sam stopped walking, she saw what looked like a dark shadow behind an abandoned house.The dark shadow ran inside the house.Sam looked around to see if there was anyone watching. She than ran inside the house chasing the dark figure.The figure stopped to look at Sam, the figure looked like a man, it then went into a room. Sam went into that room; the door closed behind her. She was now scared.She heard a voice behind her. “Samantha”the voice kept saying. “Sam” Another voice said it sounded like a women.Sam turned around, it was a women, she looked like she was at least in her 40’s.Sam‘s heart was beating really fast.She turned to the door and turned the knob it wouldn’t open. Her earbuds fell off her ears.She turned to the old lady. “What do u want?” Sam asked in despair. “woah easy there Sam, you don’t want to hurt yourself”the old lady said. “WHO ARE YOU”Sam had asked but the old lady ignored the question. “WHO ARE YOU” Sam asked again.The old lady came close to Sam. “ I am Anne,Anne Samuel Montery, daughter of”Sam cut her off and said“Dustin Samuel Montery”Anne nodded. “But your dead, you can’t be alive.” “Yes I’m dead but not quite.I have unfinished business. And u my dear are part of that business. You see my father,Dustin,had a beautiful wife,Jessica Matt Montery, she died after she had birth to me.Later on my dad married another women,a selfish, dark, women. She was Bianca Goodwill Montery. And she, my dear, is your grandma.A couple years after Dustin and Biancas got married, she was pregnant. She didn’t tell Dustin; instead when her water broke she ran into the woods and had the child, your father. She left the child there and went back to the house, well this house to be exact, your father was left alone in those woods until a family found him laying there with nothing but a blanket. The family took the baby, as you see, that family was Bianca’s family coming in for a visit. They came in the woods with horses. They took the baby and they came to this house to visit. They knocked on the door and Bianca was the one who answered the door, she was surprised to see her very own child in her family’s hands. She wanted to get rid of your father.ok La dadada da da blah blah blah, when Bianca’s family found out she wanted to kill the baby for black magic. They poisoned her and she died, she was never seen again, until now I suppose,I’m afraid she’s back, and she will try to kill you and your father so I’m giving you a gift.” Anne walked Sam over to the closet, in there was a big old book. “What is that?” “It’s a book of shadows.It was mine but I can’t do that many spells now, that I’m a ghost, so I’m giving it to you.You are very much you get than me and your human, so you will be very much powerful than what I used to be.But for now we will keep it here until things are cleared.Now you young lady have to go to school, come back after and I will teach you how to do magic” Sam nodded and said Thanks. She was now on her way to school.She has never thought that her dad had a mysterious past.She wanted to know if her mother had a mysterious past too, but she can worry about that later it was school time and she will just be 30 minutes late.




my opinion of this story is that my mind can be very creative. Sometimes things go hard in your life, but as u keep going,things will become better and you only live once. I have lived 1/7 lives. Well I’m only 10 so it makes sense, I’m not saying that everyone lives 2 times. I’m saying that in our whole life we live 7 whole lives.

you live 1/7 when u are born. You live 2/7 when you are a teen, you live 3/7 when you are an adult. And it keeps going.


I wrote this story because I thought it was good I had another story but I think this one came out better than the other one.The other one It’s about a little boy who went into the mountains to look for his family who he lost during a flood he kept looking and looking but he couldn’t find them and he gave up but then he remembered what his mom said his mom said “Never Give Up” and then he kept looking for them.Then he remembered the only place he didn’t look at was the jungle so he went and looked for them and next thing u know he found them.

June 03, 2020 18:33

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Daniela Aleman
22:59 Jun 05, 2020

Thank you very much I promise I’ll separate my paragraphs.Any way thank you so much I worked hard on this story.❤️

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Yes, I agree with Rhondalise. Some more paragraphs need to be separated, and sentences need to be capitalized. Otherwise, it was a cute story, very interesting. Keep going, keep growing ❤

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Jubilee Forbess
14:30 Jun 05, 2020

Thrilling start, break up some paragraphs, and capitalise the beginning of new sentences/ dialogue. Doing so well for your first story on Reedsy though!

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