English Coursework - Story

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English Coursework – Story

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Stuart Hamilton

     He stood still in the middle of his room, in the dark looking for something. Something was wrong. His head was spinning and he had no idea what was going on. As he glanced around the room, at his posters on the walls, his bed and his toys that were scattered across the floor, he felt the air in the room chill and that darkness grow and become even blacker. He felt a presence about the room and it added to his growing fear. He had to get out of the room. Get away from this shadow that was lingering above him. He needed his mother to calm him down and to make him feel secure again.

     He turned towards the door of his room and reached for the handle. As he turned it his body froze to the sound of a loud thud. He slowly turned his head and saw the cause of the noise, which was a book that had fallen off his shelf. He thought nothing of the book because the shelf had been crooked since the day it was put up and it always had things falling off. So he opened the door and made his way out into the corridor.

     It was dark, empty and cold. His mother’s room seemed to be miles away and he was not sure whether he could make it. The lights were off and the switch was on the other side of the corridor near his mother’s room and the top of the stairs.

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     As he took his first step the floorboard beneath creaked and a sharp pain of fear rushed down his spine but he ignored it as much as he could and carried on. As he reached the bathroom door he noticed that it was closed with the light on and when he tried the handle he found that it was locked. This sent his mind into turmoil because there was only him and his mother in the house. He called “mother?” but there was no answer so he tried again. “Mother…are you in there?”. And yet again no answer ...

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