Don’t Worry…
By Estrella, Year 6
As you lay on your bed, the sky turning a shade of orange as the sun sets, you notice everything is deathly silent. Your parents are out and you have the house to yourself, and as expected, you look through your phone. However, as you doom-scroll, you hear the front door downstairs open with a click. You think it’s your phone, but the footsteps come closer, and closer. Then, they stop in front of your door.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Something gently raps on your door.
Tap. Tap. Tap.
Then, it becomes louder, and louder, and louder. Finally, something opens your door.
Have you ever met a ghost in a room before? Maybe there were some weird sounds coming from outside your bedroom window. Maybe a musty, lingering smell of death blocked your nose.
Maybe it was just your imagination.
How can we be so sure? Maybe it was outside your bedroom door. Maybe it slowly opened it, and there, standing in front of you, is a hideous creature, bulging, glazed eyes, white, wrinkly skin. Maybe it started crawling towards you, leaving trails of a crimson-like substance, something other than stains of blood. Maybe it floated. Maybe as it loomed over your bed, the drool coming from its many mouths splatter on your once-clean bedsheets. Maybe as you started to scream its faded, clammy hands clasped over your mouth, cold and hard.
Maybe as it clasped over your mouth you fainted.
And maybe you saw black.
I’m not saying this will happen to you, don’t worry. This would actually be pretty rare. But if you do ever find a ghost, just saying…
Be careful.
This piece, Don’t Worry, by Estrella, was written as a part of Ghost Stories. In this workshop series students are inspired by spooky texts from around the world and use their imagination to create their own take on ghost fiction. Over eight workshops students learn about the conventions of ghost fiction, engage in character and world building, and create poems and pieces of short fiction that evoke a pleasing terror in their readers.