Author Archives: taramann23

You immediately turn around and start the trek home. You don’t need to follow any strange, creepy, nightmarish skeletons today, no thank you. You want to go home, take shower, read a book, and sleep off the day’s troubles.  So you do exactly that. You make it home without any problems, put your bicycle in yourContinue reading “Go Home”

Despite your insistence that every skeleton you’ve seen tonight has only been a figment of your imagination, it still takes two sleeping pills for you to finally get some shut eye. Even then, your sleep is haunted by skeletons chasing you endlessly.  When you wake up in the middle of the night and see that itContinue reading “Try to Sleep”

You decide to call your friend Chelsea, an actress/waitress from Pizza Hut who dresses in nothing but black. She happily agrees to let you stay at her house for the night, so you pack a bag and head over.  Chelsea greets you cheerfully when you arrive, shows you to a guest room, and prepares aContinue reading “Stay With a Friend”

I had a lot of fun working on this Collaborative Composition project. As a writer, I jumped at the chance to submit something more creative for this assignment rather than a simple analysis of work we had already produced, such as the discussion board. When I finalized my idea to write a Choose Your Own AdventureContinue reading “Reflection”

You’ve had enough of a horror movie for tonight and feel no urge to investigate the strange sound upstairs. You go into the guest room and close and lock the door behind you. Just as you sit down to get ready for bed, your phone rings.  Wondering who might be calling, you pick it up. The numberContinue reading “Don’t Investigate”

You’re feeling brave, and decide you will investigate. You carefully climb the stairs, listening for the noise. It hasn’t gone away, and now that you are closer you are almost certain it is TV static. You come upon a hall with three doors, and after checking the first two, discover that the sound is coming from the third. Continue reading “Investigate”

A burst of adrenaline allows you to break free of the skeletons’ grasps and run out of your bedroom. You grab your phone on the way and hastily call 911, making up some story about an intruder in your house because you know they will not listen if you tell them the truth. You waitContinue reading “Run Away”

You can only find the strength to speak. In a croaking voice, you ask, “What do you want?”  The skeleton leans closer, sending shivers down your spine. The bed feels rough beneath you, and the smell of dirt fills your nose. The skeleton’s face is right by yours when it says in a voice like ice,Continue reading “Speak”

You pick the shortcut, wanting to end this and get back to safety as soon as possible. You tell Honza to floor it, and he obeys. The car tears down the road, but when you look back the skeletons are still hot on your tail. You pray silently to every god you can think of, hopingContinue reading “The Shortcut”

You pick the long way, hoping to lose the skeletons before Honza or anyone else notices them. Once you get back to town, this nightmare will be over.  You think.  Honza turns down the road and after ten minutes the sight of houses in the distance eases your nerves. The road is rockier, but safer. You pass theContinue reading “The Long Way”