Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 3 2018 | Page 77

Journey To The West
Harrow International School Beijing, Shepheard, Calista - 14
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pril 20th 1914... the ludlow massacre killed hundreds of men, women and children it practically
whiped out the entier town the town was known very well for the fortune that they made on gold
the massacre was a result of the colorado coalfeild war its a ghost town now and my dad is moving
my entire family there this summer !
I have been living it this town for almost a week now and i could swear something has been folowing me,
watchg my every move. My dad bought this place to build his theme park and construction started three
months ago. I am not one to beleive in super stitions but when you live on the 13th highway route, in the
thirteenth apartment that only has 13 people living in the entier thing and you are constantly seeing the
number because my dads theme park is called the 13th haunting of the gold rush or T13HOTG as every
body sais you begin to think something is fishy and it’s not the canned fish that i have been living off for a
week .
uhgggg i just want to go home i hear whining at night and the wind is NOT that depressed.
My mom thinks so to she and my dad have been fighting beacause she hates it here. We have been living
here for 6 months now and when ever i try to tell my dad its not safe here he tells me i am a kid and i dont
know better, but i do! I just need a way to prove it Its coming i don’t know what it is but its coming , i am
trapped in the gold mine with no way out all i can make out is a man women and child .Oh! It mut be help
oh thank god!
It is NOT help its a monster!The most monturous thing i have ever seen it has eyes glowing like gold but a
sikening green face and torn clothes he has no right arm.... i knew this place was haunted by something oh
but if only my dad could here me now! all though i don’t think he ever will, because the monster family has
me trapped and they have left me to rot down here forever while they use me at bait to kill my dad! After
he blocked thier only way back to the relm of the innocents with a giant pot of fake gold that is heavyer that
a humpback whale all i can do is scream but it doesn’t help!
I can hear something pounding on the ground above me but i dont whant to know what else may be here
with me.
Oh my goodness its a gaint digger my dad has come to save me oh my goodness oh my goodness i wont be
buried alive !
i am back home now no, not in the poor old town of ludlow i am home in ney york where i belong,
however that night came with reminders that will haunt me forever my dad has no left arm and my mom
lost her vision they wont tell me why because it would make my mental condition worse... you see when i
was saved i whent in to shock and woke up in new york. The doctors tell me i have post dramatic stress
disorder, PDSD i get scared in the night and i cant sleep on my own i sometimes scream in the middle of
the night or randomly during any time day .