Horror story by Aria Acharya

  

Once upon a time, there lived a man in a village full of poor people. His name was Gentler. He was very rich but cruel to the people. His mother was a very rich merchant, and Gentler got spoiled in his growing years. She was the direct opposite of Gentler; she would always give out food to hungry people.

One day, Gentler asked, “Mother, why do you always give food to these peasants?” “Gentler!” shouted his mum, “do mind your words!” He got really angry. He even raised his hand and was about to hit his mother when God of hell appeared in front of him. He said, “Such a bad child! You deserve to be turned into a monster.” “NOOOO!!”  Gentler yelled as he saw his monster look. Scared of himself, he ran away. Deep in the forest, he found an abandoned house. He entered without knocking. That made the soul of this house very angry. It immediately shut itself and wrapped chains around Gentler. The soul started speaking in a deep voice, “YOU DARE ENTER MY HOUSE WITHOUT MY PERMISSION?! YOU SHALL SUFFER THE PAIN OF IMMORTALITY!!” The soul cast a spell on Gentler. At first, Gentler thought it was good, but throughout the years as he suffered from witnessing the death of the people, he begged the God of hell to take away his pain.

The God of hell agreed but on one condition. Gentler was ready to do anything. The God of hell said, “You first have to take a vow that you will do any task I give you.” Gentler quickly took the vow and asked what it was.

The God of hell grinned and said, “You have to murder your Mother.” 

Out of desperation, Gentler killed his mother and came back to God of hell. But then the God of hell said, “You fool! I was just using you, but now you are of no use to me, so I shall slaughter you!”

He laughed and slaughtered him.

Written by:

Aaria Acharya

Who stole bhaiya's smile- A summary by Daksha Sai.

 

This story is about depression in children.

Bhaiya had depression and had stopped playing with Chiru. Chiru named Bhaiya’s depression Dukduk the monster who had stolen Bhaiya’s smile. Before this, he would play happily with Chiru. Bhaiya’s parents didn’t understand anything in the beginning. Only Chiru was taking care of Bhaiya. His parents and grandparents did not understand Bhaiya’s problem and gave silly ideas. In the end, Bhaiya started going to a doctor aunty who took care of his depression.

Parents should not dismiss children's emotions.

Summary written by:

Daksha Sai

11-year-old reader

Sun's revenge- by Soham Madhok

One day at dawn, the moon said he wasn't going to set. This meant that the sun wouldn’t be able to rise. The sun became livid with rage and fought with the moon. The moon won the argument. They decided that the sun would rise after 3 days. When the people on Earth heard this, they started to fume and created a fake sun in front of the moon. The moon was disappointed. Then on the dusk of the fourth day, the sun decided to give the moon a taste of its own medicine. The sun didn't set. The moon knew it was no good fighting the sun, so it didn’t rise. Now even the clouds got angry. 

The people who believed in astrolatry were happy that something odd had happened. After four days, the sun decided to set and the moon could rise. So, things were back to normal for everyone. People felt relieved. But the sun was still angry and wanted more vengeance, so it removed a piece of itself and launched the piece at the moon. But here the sun was foolish;  it forgot that the moon revolved around the earth. So when the piece reached where the sun had aimed it to,  the moon had moved and the Earth had reached the spot! As the piece hit the earth, it destroyed mankind.

Now since the only reason the moon was revolving around the Earth was because of the Earth’s gravity, so now the moon had come out of orbit. The sun was burning in wrath, the planets went crazy and now the moon was going to crash the sun. There was something else in the moon’s way. Coming in front of the moon, it was Mercury. Not wanting to crash, the moon embraced for impact, but nothing happened as the moon got pulled by Mercury’s gravity into its orbit. The moon started revolving around Mercury instead of crashing into it. Now that the moon was safe, the sun got even angrier. However angry the sun was, it decided not to attack anymore. 

Written by:

Soham Madhok

Jake and his trophy- By Suhani Madhok

Once there was a monkey named Jake. He was ten years old. He was naughty and smart. He liked to play. When he used to play, he would throw his toys everywhere. One day he won a trophy in school. After he came back from school, he started playing with his toys and trophy. Later, it was time to go down. He went without cleaning up. Once he came back home, he got to know from his mother that he had to show the trophy to his teacher. He ran to his room but he couldn't see it. He searched and searched. Time passed and it was dinner time. Jake went for dinner. After finishing his meal, Jake went to sleep. The next day, he had to show his trophy in school but how could he! He had lost his trophy. He thought, at that moment, he saw something gold. He picked it up and saw it was his trophy. He packed it in his bag and happily went to school.

Written by:

Suhani Madhok

Grandfather on a hunt- by Gia

Alex stared out of the window in boredom. She couldn’t wait to get to her late grandfather’s house! “Mom!” she asked, “are we there yet?” Her mom smiled, “How about I tell you a story?” “There goes my boredom!” Alex said. “I am going to start!” her mom said, “My dead father was actually a pirate, and as you know pirates are scary and hate humanity. And when my father died, he swore to get revenge and kill all humans…”

Alex was getting bored with the story when she reached her grandfather’s house! “I will go down in ten minutes,” she said. Ten minutes later, she went downstairs. “I will have finished the summoning if Alex comes at 5 tomorrow,” Alex heard her mom say. She was very confused. What summoning was her mother talking about? Then, she remembered the book she found one month ago. It contained steps on how to summon a ghost and her mom had written a note in it. It said, ‘Summon father. Important. I’ve done it.’ Alex decided that tomorrow, she would summon her grandfather. The next day, when her mother was out, Laura set up the summoning equipment. She did as the book said and then, on a mirror, in blood, it was written, “I will kill you.” When Alex’s mother got home, she saw the message and screamed. She pulled Alex away from the house and started running. “I’ve been fearing this for 2 years,” she muttered. Alex’s mum was tired when she stopped running. Suddenly, a ghost appeared, surrounded by shadows. Alex’s mum said that she was done hiding. Then, she jumped into the cloud of shadows and disappeared. Forever. Alex stared at the ghost in horror. The ghost wrote in the mud, ‘I will not kill you… for now. My brother will. He… will be doing this later.’ Alex stared at the message in shock and disbelief … and ran away as fast as she could.

Years later, Alex was looking at a picture of her mum and recalling the crazy story of her grandfather. After her mother was “taken” by her grandfather, she and her father, who had not gone on vacation to her grandpa’s house, moved to New York. And, up till now, her great-uncle had not come after her. "Well," thought Alex, “I will have been surviving a ghost for 11 years in May.” And she set down the photo of her mother and walked away from her memories and fear of ghosts.

Written by:

Gia Velingkar

Victim of the dark night: by Tashvi Beria

Mia was sleeping when she heard the wooden flooring in the other room creek. Mia was a 23-year-old who lived independently. She lived quite a normal life. Hearing the creek, she had a jittery feeling that something bad was happening, so she picked up her torch and started to approach the bedroom to see what had happened. She stuttered while saying nothing. What she saw next made her heart come up to her throat. She saw a 6-foot-tall man admiring his knife. Mia's legs were stuck to the ground and her voice was gone. All of a sudden, he looked up. Mia screamed and woke up with a jolt. She was covered with sweat. She was horror-struck. She just considered it a dream and went back to sleep.

The next morning, she had woken up when the milkman arrived. She finished her quotidian routine. Just then, her phone started to ring. She answered it and heard the angry voice of her friend saying, “Mia! You told me that you would have finished the book before 10 a.m. I don’t care if you haven’t finished your work.” She rushed to the door and scuttled as fast as she could. She noticed something odd. All the streets were deserted which was very strange for a Saturday morning. She ignored it and kept walking. Then she saw a shadow cross by at the corner of her eye. She looked to her side, but there was nothing. She looked in the front and saw the same man again. She froze dead, her heart stopped and she screamed. She found herself quivering on the ground. She was befuddled. In a while, dismissing this as her imagination, she got up and returned the book. She went back home and decided to finish some work. She had been working for two hours so she took a break. While she was taking a break, the same incident repeated. She started to scream after seeing the man. This incident kept repeating and started to freak her out. This couldn’t just be a hallucination. She went down and told her friend about this. Her friend was astonished but didn’t really believe it but still agreed to accompany her. They both went to the church to finally put an end to this. When they arrived at the church, Mia’s friend rushed to a perspicacious father and said, “Father, Mia has been seeing things lately.” She narrated the whole story to him. The father said, “I think you're seeing things, my dear. This is not true ”  Mia couldn’t believe it! She stayed and argued for an hour. Not even the father believed her. Mia’s friend then said, “You have been arguing for 1 hour now; give it a rest! It’s late and we should get going.” Mia took her friend’s suggestion and returned home.

She was dead on her feet so she took this opportunity to think about what was happening. It suddenly hit her! History was repeating itself. How could she forget! When she was young, there was a case going on where a serial killer was on the loose. It was a Sunday night when Mia was woken up by the noises of thunder and lightning. Her mom had said, “I will be working till late night and the maid will go  back by 8 p.m, so don’t stay up late.” Mia felt another presence behind her. She looked back to see a tall man wearing all black holding a long sharp knife. She was petrified to realize that there was a serial killer in her house. She scuttered to the kitchen and hid there. She saw a shadow approach closer and closer. She grabbed the knife from the kitchen counter. Everything after that was hazy. She couldn’t really recall what happened but all she knew was that she had gotten rid of the serial killer for good. This had left a scar on her leg. She remembered why she couldn’t dance anymore. She had been dancing for 8 years before this accident. The psycho serial killer had come back. He had never died. He had never left her. She was brought back to reality by a loud crash. Before she could realize what was happening, she heard the words,- “I will never leave you and will have been haunting everybody’s soul for 22 years on the following Sunday. Say your goodbyes because your time is up.”

Written by:

Tashvi Beria

Molly gets lost in a forest- by Sathvik Shashi

 

One day, Molly was roaming around. She went out of the city while walking. She realized she was lost in a forest. She saw a snake and ran away from there. She was very scared. It was getting dark. Molly wanted to go home, but she did not know the way. She saw a monkey. The monkey was intelligent. She asked the monkey for help. He told Molly that there was a magical tree somewhere and she must find it. The magical tree had a map that she could use to reach home. She immediately left to find the tree. After walking around for a few hours, she saw the magical tree. She asked the tree for the map. Then the tree gave the map to Molly. She followed the map and reached the city. She was very happy and relieved.

Written by:

Sathvik Shashi

Poseidon meets Karen- by Aarav Maharjan

 

Poseidon crashed into this city that he had never seen before. Everyone in the city was perplexed and so was Poseidon as he had never seen these puny people before. He picked up one of the civilians and asked him elegantly, “Where is my trident?” The civilian was scared to the point that he was in tears, but Poseidon was just confused about how these people were so tiny and why a few people in weird white uniforms were pointing this small metallic thing in their palms, at him. Poseidon was scratching his head with confusion why all these civilians were acting so strange. Poseidon heard yelling coming from a distance, so he jumped over everyone and saw this lady with short blonde hair. She started yelling that he almost killed her with his trident, but everyone was confused as it had landed 3 meters away from her. As she realized it was not close to her, she went closer to the trident and lay down on the floor crying and telling the cops that this man had almost killed her. Poseidon got a bit scared, so he grabbed his trident and flew away, but the woman was not accepting this, so she yelled, “Where is the manager?”

Written by:

Aarav Maharjan

How Shiva and Zeus became BFFs: By Advay

 

There was this one day when Zeus looked down from the sky and thought he had to take a vacation to India. At about the same time, Lord Shiva (who lived in India himself) thought about going to Bangalore, a city in the south. They went there at the same time too, Zeus went by growing in size and walking there (Greek gods tend to do that) and Lord Shiva went by airplane. Zeus reached earlier than Shiva. He loved India! So many cars, buses, and buildings! The only thing that surprised him was that there were no temples! They must not have gods, He thought.

Zeus booked a hotel and went there. After three hours, in which Zeus managed to eat breakfast (a delicious cheese dosa) and lunch (roti, a type of flatbread made of wheat, and paneer ki sabzi, which is made of cottage cheese, and tomato gravy), Shiva arrived. By chance, he too booked the same hotel and ate dinner as usual. The following day, they met in the breakfast hall but didn’t recognize each other. Shiva and Zeus started talking and soon became fast friends. Soon they were going to the same places as each other and enjoying the sites.

Then one day Zeus thought, This place is beautiful! I must move here. So, after explaining the situation to Shiva, Zeus went back to his palace on Mount Olympus in Greece. There he packed his stuff and left for India. Once he reached there, Zeus found a nice, quiet place and built a house. Soon after, when he just finished installing a coffee table, Shiva came to visit. They talked for a while, and then they left to see a newly installed statue in the city’s center. Then Shiva had to go and Zeus went back home.

A few months later, Zeus decided to be a history teacher. When he went to the school, he saw a familiar face teaching the older kids, but he couldn’t figure out who it was. During the lunch break, he managed to recognize the face. It was Shiva! They talked for a while and were happy about the chance reunion.

Written by:

Advay Sahay

Lord Vishnu teaches geometry- By Shaantam

 

One day, Yuga went to school. He was given a task on geometry.

He didn’t understand it. He went home with that homework. He tried to do that difficult geometry homework again. So, he started praying to Lord Vishnu. He asked Lord Vishnu to come to earth and help him with his geometry. Then Lord Vishnu appeared there. Yuga was happy to see him. Lord Vishnu promised him that he’d teach him geometry properly. He checked Yuga's book and helped Yuga with the answers. Yuga understood all the concepts. The next day, Lord Vishnu went to his school. He was visible only to Yuga, but not to anyone else in school. He saw Yuga writing the answers confidently. Lord Vishnu went back to his place happily. The next day Yuga scored the highest on his test. 

Written by:

Shaantam J.

A vintage car in 3022: by Aarav Maharjan

Klay was driving around his neighborhood at 2 a.m. because he was bored and could not sleep. His engine suddenly stopped. He turned off the car and opened the trunk of the car to see what happened. When he stepped out, there was a huge gust of wind. The wind swept Klay and his car. The wind was so strong that Klay passed out. When Klay woke up, he saw things that were not in his room or were not invented. In a panic, he got out of bed and checked his phone. It was written September 20th 3022. Klay ran down, sat in his car, and started driving. He did not know what was happening. A robocop pulled him over.  People were crowding around Klay because for them, his car was vintage and elegant. The robocop called in a normal human police officer. When the police officer showed up, the police officer could only adore his car. Klay loved that people were surrounding him. Later that day, the news channels were all about Klay’s car as the most valuable and most expensive car in the world that was worth $100,000,000,00. Knowing that he would have a lot of money if he sold his car, he wanted to stay back in this world.

Written by:

Aarav Maharjan

Shiva's lost snake- by Anjali

 

Lord Shiva was sleeping with his snake on his bed at night. When he woke up to find that his snake was missing, he kept a meeting with all the other gods to find his lost snake. No god had seen Lord Shiva’s snake. He thought that his lost snake would be on earth. So Lord Shiva dressed like a modern man. He put makeup on his blue skin for disguise. Then he jumped to earth. Lord Shiva went to the Whitehouse in the USA to meet John Dalton, the president of the USA. When John Dalton saw Shiva, he was shocked, “Who are you?” Lord Shiva introduced himself. John Dalton wondered what Lord Shiva wanted. Lord Shiva read his mind and told him to just help him find his snake. John Dalton had heard in the news that there was a snake in Denmark. Lord Shiva agreed to go to Denmark. Lord Shiva and John Dalton flew to Denmark. They searched everywhere. Lord Shiva felt exhausted. At last, John Dalton saw something shining behind the bushes. A snake jumped out of the bushes. John Dalton realized that it was Lord Shiva’s snake. Lord Shiva was ecstatic. He thanked John Dalton for finding his snake. 

By:

Anjali Shashi Shekhar

Who murdered me? A thriller story by Ananya Ray

                                        

Money is the root of all evil. This is my favourite saying. My story just proves this. ‘Morning Felicity De La!’ I thought to myself when I just awoke this morning. I got up, brushed my teeth, bathed, then put on a dash of makeup. While I was bathing, I realized I had a bullet inside my skin. I quickly wore my clothes and drove to my doctor. He confirmed that it was indeed a bullet and that I should have been dead. I was shocked! Who would want to kill a dress designer who was nobody special..yet? The doctor and I decided to do a medical investigation to see if any of my organs were affected by the impact of the bullet. My doctor later came out saying that I had no pulse, no heartbeat, nothing. I was dead, yet I could walk, talk, sleep, eat, and other people could see me. I quickly rushed home after thanking my doctor. I decided to create a dress inspired by death. With long black chiffon sleeves, a V-neck, and pitch-black cloth, it represented death, at her worst. 

Just then a knife whooshed past me, hitting the mannequin beside me. I quickly hid behind my cupboard and waited till the coast was clear. The mystery assassin, dressed in black, came inside my room. The assassin pushed the cupboard pressing me to the wall. I was crushed. Then the assassin picked up the knife and stabbed me with it in the heart. I thought I was gone, but then I realized I was already dead. Ignoring my pain, I snatched the assassin's knife and stabbed the assassin with it. The assassin, realizing defeat, retreated. I sat on the floor hugging my knees, shocked, ‘Did I just harm a person? Will the police come to arrest me? Why does someone want to kill me?’ After these thoughts buzzed through my head, I decided to clean my wounds. It had been an hour and I guessed my wounds would have clotted by now. But… lo, my wounds were gone, leaving no scar behind! I came to the conclusion that I could be harmed but not killed.

I resolved to clear my mind and take this matter of finding my killer into my own hands. I cast a quick glance around my room looking for clues. I found a white paper with a green lip stain and a white cross on it. It was not mine. Heck, I didn’t own any lipstick, much less a green one. I rushed out of my room and went to maisonette De La where Jacqueline De La, my twin sister, who was my closest friend, and a Gendarmerie activist (a military force active within civilians) currently resides. Once I arrived there, she made me a glass of mint mojito, which I absolutely adored. I recounted my story to her, making her fall off her chair, literally. I also asked her for some help in tracking my killer by showing her the paper. After searching for a really short time on her police computer in her bureau, she found the gang the assassin belonged to. It was the gang de tueurs.

I nearly fainted hearing their name. Gang de Tueurs was the ultimate assassin gang, but they were demolished by the Le Paris Government. After searching for a few more minutes, she said there was another group claiming to be the Gang de Tuers living in an abandoned building. I decided to go prepared. I brought out my sling and created a few papier-mâché balls to bonk the Tuers in the head. En route to the building, I had a suspicion that it was my riche enemy designer/stinky spoiled brat, Adèle Du Poudré who was trying to kill me. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a bomb dropped on me. I thought I was gone, but then I realized I couldn’t die. I quickly ran away from the bomb, ignoring my injuries. They soon healed up after a few minutes. I had now officially found the suspect. I decided to switch my destination and instead have a little rendezvous with her father. I messaged her father who just happened to be my uncle.

“Oncle Raphaël, how have you been?” I asked. “I have been in good health, dear niece,” he replied. Then I went straight to business and told him everything except the fact that I could not die. After I finished, he decided to take a look to see if the culprit was Adèle. After thanking him for taking these drastic measures, I decided to meet Adèle and ask why she did all this. Just when I was about to, I saw Oncle Raphaël talking to a man dressed in black. The man looked like the assassin. To listen to what they were talking about, I went towards them and started recording them for evidence as it looked like shady business. “Why is that stupid girl still alive? I told you to drop a bomb on her,” he asked the assassin. “She somehow managed to survive. Don’t worry, master. I will kill her sooner or later,” replied the assassin. “Well, do it quickly. She is suspicious and bold enough to investigate,” he ordered angrily. The assassin jumped to obey. 

“Once that girl is dead, my Adèle will win over the fashion industry and we will be the richest people on the Earth. Adèle has been losing too many times because of that girl. Like father, like daughter. Her dad used to win all the time,” he muttered. I took this evidence to the police and they put Oncle Raphaël in jail along with the assassin who in fact was an original member of the gang du tueur. Adèle disappeared once she found out that her father was caught. Was she part of the plot? That I may never know. After all this drama, I went back to creating wonderful dresses and my ability remained a secret. I made sure that high-quality dresses meant Felicity De La from my brand Chic De La. This is my story with a pretty good ending because I always remembered, Money is the root of all evil.

Written by:

Ananya Ray

Who murdered me? A thriller story by Pranav Mekaraj

   

                    

I was a twenty-four-year- old adult, and I had just received my two-year salary. I came home feeling jolly. Suddenly, as I took out the money from my pocket, I saw a pair of eyes at the window. I quickly kept the money in my cupboard and went to investigate. As I closed the cupboard door, I looked back just to be smashed on my head with a lampshade by a person I vaguely recognized. I was instantly killed. After a while, I woke up and flew out of my dead remains. There was no sign of my killer. Right then and there, I vowed to myself that I would not rest till I found my killer and had him executed. The next morning, I was wandering around the street right in front of many people. It seemed as though they couldn’t see me. Suddenly, a little boy who couldn’t be older than ten pointed me out. “What is that?!” he screeched, in a petrified voice. For the first time since I died, I looked at myself. I was a monster!

I quickly ran and hid behind the nearest dumpster. By then, the little child had overcome his fright and walked over toward the ghost. He stood beside me, with his jaw falling out in awe. “Are you a ghost?...” he was quivering with fear. “Yes,” I replied while trying to avoid his gaze. Then suddenly, it hit me. If he was the only one who could see me, maybe he could help me on my quest. “I am trying to find out who murdered me. Can you help me on my adventure?” I desperately inquired, “You are the only one who can see and help me.” “Okay, but first we need to get back to my house in case someone hears me talking to you.” As we headed back, he explained that he would tell the police that his friend had been murdered. He would show them the house, and they would try to find the murderer. I would have to tell him all the details about the person I saw before I died. My only job would be to sit and wait.

“He was a short fat male, with a mask around his nose. He had greenish-blue eyes and killed me using the Lighto company lampshade. He walked with a slight limp on the right foot,” I described to the boy. “What was your name?” he inquired. “My name was Madan. What’s yours?” I was curious too. “I’m Mehul,” he answered. I found myself a nice and quiet spot in the corner of a park to sit and wait. Meanwhile, Mehul was telling his parents that he would be out for a while and would be back by nightfall. His parents gave him a little bit of money for food, and he set off on his escapade. The police station was fourteen blocks away and was a fifteen-minute walk. After reaching, he explained the case to the nearest officer. “Where are your parents?” the officer questioned. “They have gone to Scotland for a month while my grandmother is sick,” he lied. He explained the case to the officer, and they set off toward my house. 

Once they reached, I decided to take the chance and spy on them through the window. “Drops of blood on the ground!” the officer exclaimed while Mehul was cowering in fear at the sight. They led towards the door of my neighbour. Then I thought, “Didn’t my neighbour Prajwal have green-ish blue eyes?” I beckoned Mehul to come towards me. I told him to tell the officer about it. Suddenly, the officer bellowed something about a piece of a knife outside Prajwal’s house. Mehul and I immediately rushed to the spot. Slowly, the officer forced the door open. There he was! My murderer lying on the couch, fast asleep still wearing that mask with the other piece of the knife on the side table. The officer woke him up and instantly handcuffed him. Strangely though, Prajwal seemed to be able to see me as he was looking in my direction with wide eyes. The officer pushed him into the police car, I snuck in, and we drove back.

Once we reached, Prajwal was taken to the interrogation chamber. The officer kept hitting him with a whip while asking him questions. As soon as Prajwal stopped answering, he was hit like a prisoner until he continued. After the extraction of information, the officer explained to Mehul that Prajwal had just lost his job and couldn’t pay off the mortgage of his house, so he tried to get the money by robbing people. It was decided that for committing this crime he would be executed the following day. Just then, I remembered to ask Mehul to ask the officer where Prajwal had kept my money. The officer said that it was on the 3rd shelf of a cupboard which was beside the TV. Later in the day, we went to Prajwal’s house and retrieved the money. I gifted the stack of one hundred dollar bills to Mehul for helping me find my murderer.

The following day, Mehul and I came to watch the execution. Prajwal screamed, thrashed, and begged for mercy while the police dragged him to the noose. I closed my eyes as I did not wish to see the execution. We went to the officer immediately after it was done to thank him for his help and support in finding my murderer. Mehul gave him two hundred dollars from his stash and we left. I watched Mehul over the months spend his money on various items which he kept in a secret stash in his room which his parents did not know about. These items consisted of notebooks, headlamps, and many other tools that most detectives used. He even went to a detective school. Mehul died forty-two years ago, and I still miss him. To this day, I still wander aimlessly about the same house where I was murdered.

Written by:

Pranav Mekaraj

 

First time rude- by Shaantam J

 

Tom lived with his mother. He was a very happy child. He used to always listen to his mother. He was very obedient. He was never rude to her. One day, he was playing outside. His mom called him inside and he said, “5 minutes!” Because he had already played in the morning, Antono told Tom to immediately come inside. Then he rudely said, “No!”  She was surprised that he had become so rude. She felt very bad.

Antono asked Tom what was upsetting him. Then Tom told Antono how he was bullied. Easten teased him at school and he started to cry. Tom returned home in a bad mood. Antono was really upset to hear this. She hugged Tom and said, “You are a brave boy.”

Antono went to school to complain to the teachers. She saw Easten playing there. So she went to him and she asked why he had teased Tom. Easten said that he was sorry about it. From now onwards, he wouldn’t bully Tom. Antono was very happy to hear this. She went home and told Tom everything. Tom was happy and apologized to Antono for his rudeness.

Written by:

Shaantam J

Sun's revenge: By Khushi K

                                      

Sun’s revenge

On one summer day, Rahul was playing around in the garden of his house with some tea set waiting for his sister, Tanya. Tanya was in 9th grade and she was always busy studying but still gave some time to spend with her brother and to play with him for a while in a day. That day, she had been in school since early morning.  Rahul was missing her r so much that he started crying, so his grandmother called him to tell him a story to console him. The story was all about a village and the sun. 

Before starting the story, she told him that it was the revenge that the sun took on the village. Rahul became curious about the story and asked his grandmother to start the story without wasting any time. So, his grandmother started. In the story were a few villagers and the sun as the main characters. There were 5 people named Manoj, Nagaraj, Mahi, Lakshmi, and Vripina. They were all farmers and they used to grow, plot, harvest, etc as their job, but they never got tired of it in their life till now. They had a belief that the sun looked after them and wanted them to plow and harvest like good farmers. They also knew that the sun was capable of getting angry at them and they never did anything to annoy the sun. Once a big vehicle came towards their farmland. All five of them stared at the vehicle. The vehicle stopped at the doorstep of the house. There was a man who got down from it. He wore a clean suit, shoes, and sunglasses. He looked like a cool gentleman. He was holding some papers while he got down. After he came to them, he asked “Who is Manoj here?” Manoj went forward and asked him about the papers he had in his hands. After hearing the question from Manoj, the man explained that he had come here to purchase their lands for building some factories and industries and he would give them 50 crores rupees for it. All the five people were so happy about the offer that they accepted it. But later on, after these five people signed the paper the gentleman disappeared without saying a single word about the agreement. So they all got to know that it was a trap for them to give him the land, but it was too late for them to realize it because they had already given him everything and didn't have a home to stay in. They tried stepping on their lands only to get severely burnt by the heat. They started to live on streets and roads. After a few days, the sun started to get hotter and hotter, but no one knew the cause of it. So it was hard for all five of them to live on roads and streets. But then before they went to others' houses for shelter, others also had lost all their property too and now they had no place to live. And they all got to know that it was the sun who took revenge on them because before that guy had come to the village they were happy and leading a happy life through harvesting and now they couldn’t do even that. So they realized to follow their traditions and beliefs always. They worshipped the sun for 2 days. Sun told them that the man in the suit was him and he was testing their greed. The villagers apologized for their mistake. The sun forgave them. Then later there was heavy rain where everyone was so happy.

As soon as his grandmother finished the story, Tanya ran from the gate to him. They were happy to see each other. Tanya had completed all her homework at school and now she had time to spend with Rahul.  So they both played till their mother called them inside for dinner.

Written by:

Khushi K

Shaun learnt to be careful- By Shaantam J

Shaun lived in Scotland with his parents. His mother, Tina, was a homemaker. She used to look after the house. His father, Jerry, worked for a Swedish company. Shaun was seven years old and studied in grade1 in a nearby school. 

One day, when he came from school, he asked his mother if he could watch a show on the phone. She agreed. Shaun took the phone from the mother carelessly. The phone slipped from his hands. The glass of the phone broke. It scattered all around the floor. Tina got super angry. She started scolding Shaun. She yelled, “You broke my phone! It’s not working. How will I talk to anyone now?” Shaun started crying. He kept thinking, “How did this happen?”

Tina stopped scolding him when Shaun started crying loudly. She calmed him down, “Never do like this again.” Shaun sniffed, “I am sorry, mom. I’ll be careful now onwards.” Tina had to buy a new phone soon, and Shaun was always very careful with it.

Written by:

Shaantam Joshi

The Dark Forest: By Vaibhav

Mack Needle and Tom Hills were classmates at Bloom’s Academy. While watching a haunted show on television, Mack got inspired and told his friend Tom about visiting scary places. Tom was initially hesitant, but Mack convinced him saying they could become popular in their town. They started to search for possible scary places to visit and found a forest close to the Crimson Hills. Many news articles read that people who had visited that forest hadn’t come back.

Mack and Tom were both excited and nervous about the trip. They had not informed their parents and wanted to venture out on this trip by themselves. They packed the essential items such as water, snacks, torches, cameras, and helmets.

The next morning, they began traveling to the forest by bike. Mack decided to call it ‘The Dark Forest’. On reaching The Dark Forest, Mack started the video recording. Both of them were exploring the forest when they heard strange noises. Tom quickly looked around but saw nothing. They continued walking and saw a bridge that appeared very old.

Firstly, they tested the bridge by throwing some rocks. It broke one of the planks on the bridge. Since the bridge broke, they were forced to walk across the water stream. After a few minutes, they heard a deafening sound. Both of them were shocked to see that the bridge had disappeared. Mack immediately checked the video recording of them crossing the bridge, but the file had become corrupted. Tom got tensed and started scolding Mack as things were getting super weird!

Mack managed to convince Tom again, and they continued walking until they reached a village. They saw many humanoid-looking creatures walking around the village. Within a few minutes, one of the humanoid creatures started chasing them. They started to run towards their bike. Mack and Tom managed to get onto their bikes and sped away at lightning speed.

After reaching home, Mack learned from the news channel that many strange humanoid-looking creatures had been found near the Crimson Hills. Mack considered himself lucky to have escaped those strange creatures. He was extremely tired and went to bed. When he woke up the next morning, his mother was scolding him for watching stupid horror shows in the night. Mack realized that whatever he had experienced was a dream!!!

 

Written by:

Vaibhav