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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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haunted

The Butchers Secret

The Butchers Secret
There was an old butcher’s shop. It was a run down building on the outskirts of town. The butcher was a very nice man so it seemed. He was about 6 ft tall. He had an outstanding recipe. It was sausage that had some spice to it. People came from miles away to get them. But he seemed to have a bit of a secret. He just never seemed quite right. Some people thought he had a troubled childhood, but no one knew what he really was up to, He would do really weird things like ask if he could babysit some parents kids.

X2 horror

X2 Incident

It would be the greatest night of my life. The Great Escape theme park was opening up tonight and Jim and I would be the first ones in the park. We had gotten out of school for the summer and I was waiting for this moment ever since it was introduced in April. My mom had picked me and Jim up from school and drove to my house. We had heard that this roller coaster called X2 was never tested before and was opening up for the people to try this summer. I had heard about it on tv, and told Jim about it, and me and him could not wait for this moment.
When we got home my mom had told us to eat supper before we left. "I can't wait for tonight," Jim said. "Me too," I said. When we finished our supper dad said, "Are you ready?" "YEP," we both replied in harmony.

hlloween

Leaves are falling
fall is coming
soon the ghosts
will come out hunting.
Halloween! Halloween!
The witches fly,
the moon is full,
the houl starts.
The bats will lurk,
they fly sky high
they come for you
when there out for food.
The witches chase
you all about.
Halloween Halloween.
The animals are out.
Halloween Halloween
is sneaking up,
behind you.

Haunted House

a big scary house
deep in the scary forest
bats fly around it

Locker

As i walk out side
i here a noise
i think it is a
ghost hanting the
hanted house beside
me then when i look
over there i disapere.

haunted haiku

a house sits on a hill
what a very scary house
rotting sitting on a hill

A Haunted Use To Be

I used to know a house.
It was clustered with ghosts.
Now they are destroyed.

When the Sun Went Down

The sun goes down
The house is asleep, shh!
Silence envelopes it with
Impenetrable force
Creek!
From the wood floor
In the kitchen
Up to see what it is
Out in the hall comes the creepiest glow
There stands a man with a suit on
A warrior it appears
Creek!
He turns and stares
And with a sudden shock
Descends downward
Into the deep hallows of the earth
But all is not forgotten
About what happened when the
Sun went down

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If you Dare

The woods are something you just can't comprehend.
From a distance, you see their greeen tops- perhaps like hats covering an ugly face below. You see the colors, flashing..
Red. Yellow. Gold. Are they warnings? Are they welcoming signs?
People have entered, and returned without scratches. Others,
have never been found.
Do they choose their victims? Or do their victims choose them?
The calls of the crows, bellowing you to stay out? Or asking you to come in?
Come in.... Come in...
If you dare.

Haunted House Haiku

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Ominous feelings
Old cobwebs, dust forms swirling
Something there not seen

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