The Night at Mawmaw's House by Desmond Young (good summer reads .TXT) 📕

It started at my Mawmaw's (A.K.A Grandmother’s) house at in Brown County. I was going to stay a for a full 24 or more hours. After a while of my Mom hanging out there with me, she left to go back home. Let me tell you I had tons of fun until night time came upon us and that’s when I had gotten so scared. My scaredness at that time wasn't just because of the dark; it was something more than just the dark. After a while of watching TV, everybody else went on to bed and I was left alone on the sofa, in pitch darkness, all alone. For hours I had tried to go to sleep and just couldn't. Hours went by and then even more hours went by, until it was like one in the morning. Probably about 1:30 I had started to go to sleep, but as soon as my eyes were about to be shut I had heard a noise and woke right back up. Then I started to hear the noises some more and it sounded like a bunch of rats fighting in the walls. I mean they were like yelling and I was the only one that could hear them. Finally the rats had stopped fighting or whatever they were doing and so I started to go to sleep, as soon as my eyes began to shut again I felt something nibbling at my toes and so I hurried up and ran into the kitchen, but I really wasn't sure if the nibble on my toes was real or just all in my head. Then about around 4:20 or so I went back and laid back down and went to sleep and nothing else happened, but even to this day I'm not really sure what really made me run to the kitchen.

Publication Date: 07-29-2011

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