Jones Valley Elementary School

“If you care to linger a little longer at 208 Surrey Road, you may see more than a cute little house for its residents have a dark secret. Inside, cold dark. The flutter of wings in the darkness, a growl, footsteps sound deep in the darkness. A girl steps out watching horror unfurl in front of her.” “That's the story Great-great-Gran tells every night anyway,I think its supposed to scare us but I ain’t scared.”Says young Lea to her sisters that fateful night. Unknown to Lea, that night was Halloween and as soon as she stepped out of the house, just like the story, chaos erupted. Poor Lea fled into the cold winter with people running at her with torches. They had her backed up against a tree little did they know that young Lea could climb and as soon as they got close she sprang upward like a cat climbing, climbing, up, up until she reached the top but the trick-or-treaters didn’t give up they set fire to the tree but Lea had another trick up her sleeve, throwing of her cloak she leapt into the night sky ,the trick-or-treaters expected her to fall but she didn’t she transformed into a bat and flew away and then back to her house again dove under the covers and hid. “I guess old cra-cra Great-Great-Gran is right about some things” Lea muttered as she drifted off into a light dreamless sleep. The End Written and Illustrated By Emerson Bell Henry.