jueves, 7 de julio de 2016

Writing contest 2nd edition




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  1. White
    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong.
    “Write down everything you see” said detective Parsons to his assistant Mrs. Falls while she was taking her pen out.
    He couldn’t believe what he was seeing. The detective had to take a deep breath before looking deeply into the details.
    “This can not be explained Mr.. It’s really messed up.” Mrs. Falls eyes were wide open while she was talking.
    “It’s just a matter of time. We will sort it out.” Answered Mr. Parsons.
    “I don’t think this is a case for a detective…”
    There was a dead body lying on the bed, it was the owner of the house, the only person who lived there. His name was David Bolt.
    David was new in the neighborhood, he had just moved into that new house a month ago. None of the neighbors knew anything about him other than his name. Everybody said he was a nice man, he always was very polite with them.
    What had happened? There were no clues in the room. Nothing.
    The body was impressive; frightening. It was as white as a cloud. The detective had never seen a dead body as white. You could say it was covered in paint. David’s eyes were completly white, too. He was only wearing white underwear which only made everything harder to look at.
    “Can I have a rest?” asked Mrs. Falls.
    “Sure. We’ll have to dedicate a lot of time to this case. We’d better rest a bit.”
    Mrs. Falls left the room and the detective stood in the middle of the room trying to look at everything carefully. Something was missing.
    Suddenly, he heard a soft noise behind him, besides the window.

    “Are you OK Mr. Parsons?” asked Mrs. Falls while she was walking into the room.
    She opened the door and stood were she was, shocked: next to David’s body, the detective was lying , dead too.
    She stood next to the bed, staring at the detective’s eyes. They weren’t white like David’s but definitely they had no life.
    Suddenly, Mr. Parsons sat down violently, looking at nowhere. Mrs. Falls screamed, she was terrified.
    “Is it you? What’s happening?!” she shouted.
    “Get out of here. You were right, this isn’t a job for a detective. Get out!” He ended his sentence and his eyes turned white, like David’s, and he fell on his back, lying again over the bed.
    Before Mrs. Falls could start running out, she saw something that will stay forever in her mind. She saw, through the window, the creepy face of a white man. He was alive, and she knew that his white eyes were looking straight to hers.

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  2. Clue

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. there was a strange smell in the room. The same smell Sally had smelled on that tragic day. It brought a lot of memories back to her. Memories that she didn´t wat to relive again.
    They were slowly entering the room and the smell was slowly getting disgusting.
    Some flies were flying in the air. Sally couldn´t stop wondering why she had become a cop if she hatedthe job that much.
    maybe because of the absence of her father since the day she corn. Or just because she had never really believed that her mother´s death had been a suicide.
    From the day she found her dead in his chair she was decided to find out the thruth and now this could be a great clue.
    they were crossing the first room when the ligths went out and they heard a window breaking. They followe the noise fast and from the window Sally could see the man, running like a coward. They had lost him again.
    On the room there was a photo of her father and behind it a dead body covered with blood...

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  3. The unknown house

    Everything started one night. I was sleeping when I heard a strange noise. I opened my eyes quickly. It was too dark so I couldn’t see well. The first thing that I did was look for my cellphone to check the time. When I found it, I turned it on. A strong light appearedand I could notice that the place where I was sleeping wasn´t my bedroom. I was surprised and got scared. I was in an unknown bedroom. I didn’t understand why I was there. I tried to remember something about the previous night, but it was impossible, my head hurt a lot.
    I didn’t move for a few minutes. I wanted to close my eyes then open them and woke up from this creepy dream… I knew that it wouldn’t happen, it was only a wish. At that moment, I thought I was alone but suddenly a voice behind me whispered my name. I felt my heart stopped for a minute. After that, I took my cellphone and turned on the flashlight. A familiar face appeared. It was my best friend, Anne. I was happy because I was not alone and she could tell me what happened. We started to talk about it. She told me that she remembered being in a costume party and a boy, who was wearing a black mask, giving us a bracelet which had a written name. It was her last memory. We stopped talking for a second. Then we looked for it but we failed. If we found it, we could have another thing to help us.
    We needed get out of these house. We went to the door. As soon as we opened it, we knew something was wrong. We heard a strange noise again. We were frightened. Later, we noticed that there were stairs which connected the first floor with the ground floor. We walked downstairs. Finally, we found the main door. We were walking towards it when the door next to us opened slowly and we could see a doll lying on the floor. It had the bracelet. We shouted loudly and we started running out of the house.
    Since then we’ve never known the truth.

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  4. An eerie house.

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. The house was big, old, black, eerie. But Oliver and Lucy liked it a lot. However, what they experienced in this house changed their minds.
    Oliver had bought this house as a present to his girlfriend and they decided to live there. They were not afraid of ghosts or spirits but what happened in that house was really strange.
    At first, at night, the big, old and grey window opened in a strange and noisy way. Then, another day, Lucy was drinking coffee and something or someone spilled over her. Oliver experienced strange things too.
    Soon after that, they moved to another house where nothing strange happened so Oliver and Lucy decided to search for information about the strange and curious house. They were surprised at what they found. The house had been a mental hospital, strange but true.
    Lucy was sad because her grandfather had died in a mental hospital so they never came back to that neighborhood again.

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  5. Here is my storybird! https://storybird.com/books/pzm5ucrtpr/edit/

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  6. A mystery story
    “As soon as the opened the door, they knew something was wrong” read Mrs. Lucy when she was correcting her students’ homework. That semester the had to write a mystery story to pass the year; and this last story caught Mrs. Lucy’s attention. The development of the story was incredible and precise; Alexander Knighman, the author, would be proud of his creation.
    Mrs. Lucy quickly ran into the headmistress’ office to show her the special talent this kid had. But, when Mrs. Hunterson read the content of the paper, her reaction wasn’t of pride or anything like that; she turned to Mrs. Lucy and asked:
    “Are you sure this is from this year? Or even, if Alexander Knighman is one of your students?”
    Mrs. Lucy, who hadn’t thought of that, replied.
    “You’re right; none of my students is called Alexander. Maybe it is from other class and I picked it up by accident…”
    But the headmistress knew something was wrong, because she remembered the evening that Alexander Knighman was found dead in the library, three years before.

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  7. Here´s my story, "The Ghost´s house"
    http://storybird.com/books/the-ghost-s-house/?token=jdwvswp4hw

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  8. Here´s my story,"The Door", click on this link:
    http://storybird.com/books/the-door-58/?token=hwqpbae8bu

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  9. The House.

    As soon as they opened the door, they know something was wrong in the old house. Maybe the mystery was real and the moving lights the screams and voices were real and not an illusion.
    Some years ago in Texas the Gordon's family moved to another city and their house was abandoned. Five months later the neighbours started to complain about the house, because there were a lot of lights, inexplicable screams and some people says that they heard voices too. But it was impossible because nobody lived there.
    Two friends, Mike and Dan decided to investigate the situation and in the evening they came to the old house. The place was empty and very dirty, they walked to the others room but there wasn't anything and they couldn't find any clue.
    Finally, they decided to go back home but when both went downstairs to the house, because they had already checked the second floor, the lights switched on. The boys stayed still and trembled, next they heard whispers and screams from a women. Immediately after that the lights switched off and the house stayed in silence.

    They couldn't prove this last episode, ut a lot of people in Texas believe that this was real.

    Nowadays the house doesn´t exist and there's a shopping in the place, but some people still can hear some whispers and screams at night..

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  10. The mystery of the black cat

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. The black cat was in the middle of the bathroom. The cat was staring at them. “It’s impossible” said Sarah. The windows and the door were closed! How did the cat enter into the bathroom? The last time that they had seen the cat was last night on the street.

    John was in astonishment. They didn't want to touch the cat. They thought that it was cursed. The cat stayed still for a long time while they tried to resolve how it could get into the bathroom. It was a very odd situation!

    At the moment, the black cat started to meow and its eyes became white. They thought that it was an optical illusion. But it wasn’t. The black cat fell dead and petrified.

    They never knew what happened with the cat, neither how it did to get into the bathroom. But nowadays, in the neighborhood they still heard the meow of the black cat.

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  11. The Haunted Camp

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. Peter is a student who lives in a apartment with his girlfriend Katy.
    One day, Peter and Katy decided to go camping with some friends. The next morning, two friends and Peter and Katy started walk towards the nearest forest. After the first day, they wanted to live an adventure, so they decided to go for a walk in the woods. They were walking when, suddenly, a little dirty child appeared from the dark. Immediately, Katy ran towards the boy. She started asking him questions about what he was doing there. But the only thing that the boy answered was that he was lost, and his parents had died in a car accident. After that, he disappeared.
    At the next morning, they got back home. But, at the moment Katy walked into the apartment, she was in astonishment. Someone had been in the room, because everything was untidy, and there were many walls and furniture broken.
    Since then, everything became strange. During the night, Peter and Katy heard inexplicable screams and noises, but they couldn’t see anybody. The days that followed, Katy became extremely curious and she started looking for information. But she couldn’t find anything about him and his family, it was as if he has never existed.

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  12. The Mysterious Cathedral

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong...but it could be their imagination...A true mystery. They were Sean and Ryan, two brothers from Germany that one day took a bad decision of visiting this mysterious place.
    Two days ago Sean and Ryan arrived to Spain.Once there, they decided take a taxi and go to the cathedral from Barcelona. Unluckily, it was a bad choice. When they arrived Ryan , it was already dark. They got into the cathedral, there were nobody but when they walked they heard something they got really scared. Sean wanted to open another door, he did it but he saw a person singing but then this stranger started to cry. Ryan asked him what was happening. Why he was crying? But the stranger didn't answer, he only said "go out of here because the man who lives here is very dangerous" and suddenly the stranger started screaming and then laughing.We ran away as fast as we could.

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  13. When Janice and her sister arrived at their aunt's house, they saw a broken painting and a chair lying on the floor. They were really confused because their aunt was the most organized person they knew. Janice decided to call the Police but the phone was not working.
    They went upstairs to see if something else was broken and Brook, Janice’s sister, noticed a strange noise coming from an old bedroom so they went to that room but as soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. They ran away.
    Janice and Brook tried to leave the house but the door was stuck so they went to the living room to hide but they found a creepy old doll on a chair watching them, the same one that was in the first room.
    This episode was on February 4th 1994. Nowadays, this mystery continues and the bodies were never found.

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  14. Two hours before, Camille and Kol were at home watching a TV horror show. When this was at a crucial moment, the lights went out in half of the city. Kol was really annoyed about this situation because he wanted to know if the spirit really was in the wardrobe and if the main characters would die or not. One hour later the street noise stopped, that was really weird in the city of New Orleans. Then a strong wind closed the door. Camille tried to open it but she couldn’t. neither could Kol. They waited quietly.
    Minutes later they heard an odd sound in the bedroom, inside the wardrobe. This was like on the TV show.
    As soon as the opened the door they knew something was wrong. Josh, Camille’s little brother was up. Kol and Camille laughed and they told Josh to go back to sleep. The lights came back on and everything was back to normal.

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  15. “……leave….”
    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. They started to feel the air was rare. There was no light inside the control room, and a white and kind of shining fog was on the ground covering everithing to the point that could almost reach their knees. The rescue team entered to evaluate the damage. They shouldn´t have come.
    2 weeks earlier the NASA had recived a strange message from one of the space ships called “The Ark”, this particular ship was meant to travel to a distant planet with suitable conditions to be a human colony in the future. But when they restablished comunications there was a message from the ship: “cannot…..leave,cannot….leave”. the scientists thoug that they referred to gravity of the planet and they were trapped there, so they decided to send the rescue team.
    The captain, of the rescue team Alpha, was an old soldier with a lot of experience on the battlefield so he entered first the control room and pressed the button to check the last comunication:
    “Here´s captain Roger of the Ark, we´ve been boarded by the natives of the planet. They have invented too advance weapons for us. They have even invented a way to infect us and control us, right now 4 members of the crew are infected with the virus (or whatever it is) but we managed to locked them on their rooms so it doesn´t spread but I know it´s too late. So I´ve decided to execute myself and the rest of the crew so they don´t use our bodies to go to Earth. My last message to Earth is this: “Don´t come for us they cannot leave, I repeat they cannot leave”.

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  16. As soon as they opened the door,they knew something was wrong.

    Arthur and Michael entered the apartment and saw everything tidied like the last time they had cleaned all the rooms, but the problem was the living room´s floor, it was covered with dust. They switched on the light then and they could see that there was a mark, engraved in the floor´s dust. It was a figure of a man, holding a very big dagger. It seemed to be killing someone! They looked at each other and, as fast they could, they swept the floor and went to sleep. They couldn´t sleep very well, so next day (on Sunday) they tried to relax and think about what could have happened, they didn´t worry about the exams they were going to have during the week, they needed answers urgently. They sought in the internet for hours and hours, but they didn´t find anything. The next morning they met with friends before studying and told them all the story. They started to laugh and explained to Arthur and Michael that it was a joke made by them.

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  17. As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. Lucy and Caspar were two high school students.
    They had been working on a project for science class in Lucy’s house. They spent the whole day researching, studying, analyzing and writing. By 9 pm, the students were very tired to continue, so instead they decided to watch a horror film.
    When the movie finished, they heard a loud weird noise coming from the garden. They also heard Lucy´s dog barking crazily. None of them could understand what was going on.
    Then, Lucy and Caspar went outside and when they opened the door they saw a strange shiny and luminous white sphere floating in the middle of the garden, it looked like a star. The students were very scared. Suddenly, the bright thing expanded and filled the whole sky with its white light. But in a few seconds, it stopped and disappeared.
    The two kids ran terrified to the house. They rested for a moment and turned the TV on to relax, but the saw in the news that the entire world sky had gone white and researchers had started to study this mysterious phenomenon.
    The end.

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  18. Selfie



    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. It was the first time Lisa and Lena entered the abandoned house so they were very scared. They could see nothing because it was 11 PM and there weren’t lights inside the house, but they wanted to continue with the bet. The girls had to enter the house and when they found a mirror they had to take a selfie of them with the flash turned on. They returned home with the picture and the money of the bet but when they saw the picture, they could see a little boy hiding behind them who wasn’t there when they took the selfie. They tried to show the picture to the police but when the police saw it the little boy wasn’t there anymore. After that they never talked again about what happened that day.

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  19. As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. Everything was really colourful and everyone looked just like an old cartoon. It was a bit scary.
    Aspen held his little sister's hand, but she didn't look scared, she was smiling. He was really confused, how was this possible?
    He was wondering when Amy, who used to love girly things, started running trying to cathch a pink butterfly, but when she stepped outside the house she turned into a cartoon.
    Aspen was scared ande he could heard strabnge music, like a carrousel song, it was creepy but it was just the music from the ice-cream truck. He had a lot of questions so he brought an ice-cream for Amy and he asked the man who was driving the ice-cream truck “Whats going on?” but the man just smiledand clapped his hands loudly, and everything turned black.
    When he woke up he was at home, and everything had been a nightmare.

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  20. Spooky
    As soon as they opened the door they knew something was wrong. The bed was a clear clue of that, given that it was in the ceiling instead of the floor, but there was also the fact that every window was open when the house had supposedly been closed for the past twenty years and the detail that there was absolutely no dust whatsoever in any of the surfaces in the house. Was maybe someone in charge of cleaning it? They doubted that because they had lived one block away of the house all their lives and they had never seen one single soul go through the doorstep in which they were standing. They looked at each other, not daring to break the intimidating silence, asking each other with a look if they should go inside or not. They decided that an antigravity bed was not enough to scare them away and so they went through the left door that led to the kitchen. But what they found inside was not a kitchen but something so terrifying that all of them ran away screaming, faces white as a full moon, until each one of them reached their respective homes. They avoided each other ever since. I guess it is hard to talk to someone if you have seen their corpse.

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  21. As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. All the lamps in the living room blinked and the dog moved nervously. The two girls, who lived in the apartment entered with their boyfriends. Immediately the dog began to walk around the apartment showing a strange behavior.

    The group didn’t matter so much because they had to prepare the entire house and the food for the party at the night. So they continue doing the activities normally, but some mysterious thing happened during the party.

    They were talking and suddenly, they heard that someone opened and closed the door, so one of the boys went and opened it and didn’t see anyone, also another curios event happened, the radio turned on and they could heard a strange voice of a child singing a song.

    The next day, when the girls were talking about the great party, one of them showed a funny photo of a friend, but when the girl saw it, she looked at a little boy standing up in the corner of the picture.

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  23. stranger
    as soon as they opened the door, the girls knew something was wrong...
    two friends -Charlotte and Claire- went to Canada on holiday, the girls rented an apartment for fifteen days. When they entered ir, they saw that the flat was horrible. The bed was broken, some windows were dirty and there were some leaks and holes on the wall.
    The first day everything was good until night. When the girls were having dinner the handle of the main doorwas moved by a strange purple mass that was floating in the air. The girls started to cry and they let out a scream and after a few minutes they tried to sleep.
    Charlotte couldn't sleep because she was so frightend that she called the police When the police came everything was normal.
    The following days weren't good because the lights turned on in the middle of the night when they were sleeping.
    Claire decided to investigate the paranormal things that happened in that apartment; she couldn't find anything about that weird apartment.
    After the fifteen days in that scary apartment they got back to their house in London.
    A week later after they arrived, Charlotte and Claire bought the local newspaper where they saw an article with a picture of an apartment. It was the flat they had been!
    The article was about an alien that scientists had found and studied in that flat.
    Finally the girls realized that they weren't crazy.
    Balbas Niños 6

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  24. Happy Birthday
    As soon as he opened the door he knew something was wrong. He knew that she had returned and he wouldn’t t sleep in all the night
    Five years had passed since the accident and guilt followed him everywhere, He began to look around the house and fear reached his body. Suddenly he heard a noise at the door but there was no one outside, He remembered the time when the car crashed, he could never tell her how he much loved and just then he felt , her breathing right behind the neck. His neighbors said they heard John talk for hours but never saw anyone in the house
    John disappeared the next day, the same day that I, his late wife, celebrated my 42nd birthday, the same day I swore I would return.

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  25. Shadow killer
    As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong. There was a dead person in the dark room and the white walls had a handprint of blood.
    Aria shouted, she was scared. Who would have thought a holiday trip would end so badly.
    Suddenly, they heard strange noises and they ran out into the street, which was deserted. They wanted to come back; they just wanted stay at home.
    Ezra saw a mysterious shadow and they started to look for their car to ran away from there but then he turned around and his girlfriend wasn’t there anymore. Strange but true.
    He went to the car alone and a shadow killed him.
    One week later the police found the bodies and no footprint to help them. This event is inexplicable.

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  26. As soon as they opened the door, they knew something was wrong...
    Kayla,their grandmother was sitting in front of the kitchen's window, crying with her husband portrait in her hands.
    But why? Well, her husband had been killed a month ago. The police accused her of committing the crime, but she said that she was at the supermarket when it happened.
    The family was surprised by her confession so they checked the security cameras of the house and the supermarket and discovered that both (their grandmother and the police) were right.
    "I really didn't do it", she said. But the question is... How could she be in different places at the same time?
    Now the police is trying to find an explanation for this strange case.

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  27. THE DREAM
    As soon as they walked through the door she knew something was wrong, her stomach felt very strange, but she ignored that and tried to go back to sleep. But no matter what she did, she couldn’t forget its face. She tried to sleep but couldn’t, its face would still appear in her dreams where she wasn’t even asleep. Sleep paralysis? That was one of her favourite topics to talk about at Psychiatry University, but now it didn’t seem interesting.
    The day after seemed normal, -“it was just a nightmare”- she thought.
    Supermarket. She feels very concentrated on the shopping, checking prices and revising what she needed to cook, when a familiar face came up, it was a young boy haggard looking, with dark bags under his eyes, he was staring at her very seriously, she couldn’t stop staring at him, lots of memories came back: pills, chaos, screaming, and a funeral. His face started changing until it became the horror face from her dream, she was paralyzed and then she fainted.
    Hours later when she woke up she couldn’t remember anything, she asked her husband, who told her that the supermarket employees had seen her slip on the wet floor and becoming unconscious , but no matter how hard she tried she couldn’t remember even being in the supermarket.
    She and her husband began to put away the supermarket shopping and when she opened the refrigerator, it was completely empty and her kid was hanging in there. She went crazy, started to scream and throw things. Her husband was stunned. She stopped for a second and walked to her husband and started to choke him with her own hands. When he was dead, she threw him to the floor violently.
    The horror face boy showed up at the crime scene and both of them started kissing passionately.

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  28. The mystery of the little monsters

    As soon as they opened the door, they knew that something was wrong. They saw all people going crazy! When they looked at the sky they saw a rain of little monsters falling on the town.
    Their mission had discovered where the little monsters were from.
    They were a family: Derek, the father, Meredith, the mother and Zola, their daughter.
    Afterwards; Derek had realized that the monsters attacked those who didn't have a mobile phone. With that information, Zola who was sixteen years old had started searching and found an app that caught the little monsters, that app was called Pokemon go. If they could catch all the monsters, they would save the town.
    Unfortuntely, while Derek was catching a little monster with Zola's phone, the little monster ate him and he died. The situation was critical so Meredith organized a meeting with the citizens and they agreed to download that app and caught all the little monsters late that night

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