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by Miranda Nelson
I was walking through an old store when I saw the creepiest dummy doll. My
brother was horrified of that kind of thing and it sent a chill down my spine, so I
bought it. The dummy had the downright creepiest smile imaginable. Think of
the creepiest smile in your mind right now and multiply that by 100. The eyes
were open as wide as physically possible. In fact, they were so wide, it was as if it
could see into your soul. The body was a pretty average dummy body. Flexible
wood, cloth clothes, overalls, but it had gigantic feet, kinda human size and
squishy, with enormous hands that, once again, looked and felt human. To pretty
much sum it up, if you were not afraid of dummy dolls at this point, this thing
would have made you pee your pants. I went home at about 8:00 p.m. It was extremely dark, so I put that creepy thing on the counter and went to bed.
I woke up really early, or late, I don’t know as I was too lazy to look at the
clock, and went upstairs to get some food to take to my room I did not want to
turn the kitchen light on in the fear it might wake someone up. I turned the flashlight on and saw that two things were missing; the largest kitchen knife we own
and the… the doll. As I turned my head, looking frantically around the kitchen in
search of the doll, I felt extreme pain in and around my right eye, but I did not
care. I knew that because the sole purpose of the creepy monstrosity was to scare
my brother and knowing that most scares got out of hand, I rushed upstairs to my
brother’s room just in time to save him from being cut into a million pieces by that
devil. I took it outside, along with an ax, lighter fluid, wood, and paper. I chopped
it up into little pieces and then burned it all until I was certain not even the ashes
remained. As I stood up to finally go inside and get some sleep, there was an odd
sensation. This was not like good sensation, but like a BAD sensation and very
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