Mini Saga competition

Here's something to keep you busy during the holidays...

Have a go at writing a mini-saga of 50 words or fewer. The words that you use in the title do not get counted.

Your story will need to have some kind of beginning, middle and end so you will need to find a way to get straight into the action. You should target your story at somebody aged 9 to 15 years old.

To give you some inspiration, here are some great examples...
http://fiftywordstories.com/

If we get enough really good ones, we might ask a few of you to organise publishing them all into a book which we could sell to raise money for our next school trip!

Good luck!

Listen if you dare...

Nejla and Omaima have recorded one of the chiller stories that they sent to the blog. It's called Tattered Note.

Just to make things a little more creepy and unnerving, they chose some music and a couple of sound effects to go with it. They then used a program called Audacity to edit the sound clips and mix it all together.

Here is their spoken story:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/17435851/Tattered%20note.mp3

Year 6 speak about the Chiller Blog!

Thank you all those children who spoke on camera about using the blog as part of our Chiller Writing Project! Sorry to those who contributors who didn't get a chance to offer their opinions.

I've put some of your comments into a video which you might like to have a look at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fo6mcvBmaY

Tina's troubling terror-tale

Tina has been busy crafting yet another scintillating read.

MY LIVING NIGHTMARE  (by Tina)

Me and my brother had slept alone for the first time in the new flat. We lived on the top floor of the building (the 13th floor).

Mum and dad had gone out to meet Lee, my dad’s soon to be new boss. I decided to put William to sleep early that night so that I could have a peaceful night chatting to my friend and watching television without having to change the channel because something inappropriate came on the TV.

Almost immediately after he shut his eyes, I sat down on my inflatable sofa and watched a movie called 'VENDREDI 13' (Friday the 13th) when all of a sudden I felt an arctic breeze biting my skin like a hell hound.

I slowly turned around but nothing was there. I was sure that I had latched the door and sealed all the windows before double checking.Iit felt as if someone had been breathing icy cold blasts on my neck. Before I could get to my feet, the lights started to flicker. Once, twice... then darkness roamed the room. I heard a soft voice whispering... "good now we can begin..."

A terrifying tale indeed...

Do not miss this wonderfully creepy tale from Nejla!

I really love the way she has used a few highly effective short sentences to add to the suspense. Can you spot them? I also really like the attention to detail in describing the setting. For example '... with a soft breeze flowing through...'.

Enough of my yakkin'. Here it is:

TATTERED NOTE (by Nejla)

'Fear me,
Hear me ,
But do not seek me,
For there’s no need,
I will seek you'

I cringed as I read the note and every now and then checking my surroundings. Odd. I could have sworn I had locked my apartment before I left. Yet when I came back my door was wide open with a soft breeze flowing through. That was when I had found the weird tattered note lying around.

Nothing was touched, everything exactly where I had left it. Except my dog, Jamie, looked traumatized almost. I shrugged and just thought it a coincidence; I decided to go bed early that night. Just as I was about to turn off the lamp, I saw a dark eerie-looking shape zoom past. I saw a glimpse of the mysterious shape, it was a figure I realized. I blinked. It was gone. I rubbed my eyes... nothing.

I blamed my lack of sleeping these days, and just for extra precautions I latched the windows and locked my bedroom door. I tightly tucked myself in bed and reached over and turned the lamp off. Surely nothing could get me, I was safely locked up in my bedroom.

How wrong I was...!!!

 

A monstrously malevolent mystery

Omaima and Nejla teamed up in Homework Club to send in this terrifying poem. I love the powerful verbs that they have used. Any words you don't yet know the meaning of? Look them up on google by typing 'define:' and then the word. Anyway, time to be scared...

I AM....  (by Omaima and Nejla)

I haunt you in the night 
I come into your dreams
I lurk in the darkness
From where I stand 
Casting shadows from hell.

I hold a gateway to your worst fantasy
You see no more than a watery gloomy shape flickering about
I am the villain and you are the hero
Surely you will not succeed.

I am the curse that everyone abhores
The headlights struggle as I flaunt across the road
You cringe and shiver as I breathe down your neck
You don't see me but I certainly see you
I am a mischevious glint
No! something vastly sinister.

You see a glimpse of me and by no means scream your heart out
And then and only then do I come out of the everlasting shadows
I trap you as you frantically try to escape
I take your soul but not entirely.

I am ... you'll never know! Ha ha ha!!!

Well done Year 6!

Hello Year 6,
Not sure if you remember me from last year but I remember being impressed by your writing last year. Think all these posts are great and definitely very scary. Loved all the hidden voices like Nathalia's 'soft voice' and Khaleder's 'whisper.' Great that you inspired Michael Rosen to write a poem.
Well done Year 6 - keep going. If I can't sleep tonight, I'll blame you!
Miss O'Connor