Youngsters’ Forum

The Devil’s House

February 6th, 2008

The setting is very peaceful. It’s a nice farm with lots of animals all eating grass. There are lots of trucks with really noisy engines. This cottage has a large grafito tag of a devil on the roof which also has blue and green paint on the walls below. The chimney is missing a few bricks and is very unstable. The windows are shattered by drum sticks and guitars, which seem to be intact. The bathroom sink is broken in half and the toilet, strangely enough, is missing. The walls are in the colour red with the floor being bright orange. A window is open just a little crack. What a strange house.

Suddenly, a young boy looking round about the age of 14 came in from the blazing sun outside. He looked around the horrifying house and saw a large photo of a rocker playing his guitar. He was amused by the fancy clothes and the arrow-shaped guitar which said on it, “Beware me”. In the kitchen food was everywhere. What a strange house. Upstairs lay a black cat with claws as sharp as sharks’ teeth, and a shirt on it, saying, “AC/DC”. What a strange house. Further on in the house was a bedroom that had bright yellow stools and on top of them lay some shiny tickets for the band the boy had always wanted to see. The boy snatched the tickets and ran out of the room. As he did, he trampled over the cat and fell downstairs, and then with one final sprint the boy ran out of the house.

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