Hike up Devil’s Mountain
Blurb
Ten year old Andy Thompson, disobeys him mother, and sneaks
inside the basement of an old house that is to be demolished the very next
day. He discovers a long, skinny box
with an old wooden stick inside. For a
split second, the stick starts to glow, then stops, as quickly as it started.
Andy is so intent on getting this stick to glow again, he
doesn’t realize he has visitors. The
Crew brothers, ten year old Danny and his twelve year old brother, Jason, the
new school bully, have found their way into the basement.
Jason wants that stick.
A fight ensues and all three lives are turned upside down. The only person who can make things right,
lives on top of Devil’s Mountain. The
question is will they survive the dangers along the way?
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Excerpt
Andy was peering into the biggest
tunnel. Danny peeked in from the other
side.
A dull greenish light barely glowed
in the inky blackness. It got brighter
and the boys could hear a shuffling sound.
The odor was overwhelming. “Something is coming!” Andy whispered in a
panic. “Hide!”
Danny
scooped up his brother and both boys dove behind the big gold rock, holding
their breaths. Andy was afraid he was
going to throw up as the shuffling got louder and the smell got stronger. He started to peek around the rock, but Danny
grabbed his arm, shaking his head frantically back and forth.
Andy
mouthed the words, “We have to see what it is.”
Danny
swallowed and nodded okay.
Andy and
Danny turned away from each other. Each one slowly peeked around their side of
the rock. Emerging from the tunnel was a
slimy, brownish green wormy type lizard.
It had a lizard shaped head with eyes that were nothing more than slits. Green goo oozed from his tightly closed mouth
as he dragged along. It had four front
legs, two on each side. Three long black claws protruded at the end of each
leg. The two front legs slowly reached
forward to pull the body along, while the two in the back seemed to just drag
along, making it a slow moving….thing.
It finally
made its way completely inside the cave.
This thing was at least ten feet long and about 4 feet tall. The end of its wormy body had a long boney
tail with the same black claw on the end of it that dragged on the ground. More
green ooze dripped off its body leaving a slimy glowing green path on the cave
floor.
Andy and
Danny turned back and looked at each other.
Relief flooded both their faces.
The thing was so slow; they could walk away from it and still be out of
its reach.
Using his
two fingers next to his thumb, Andy made a sign of walking and pointed to the
tunnel partially covered by the gold rock.
Danny
nodded.
A croaky whisper came from Danny’s
pocket, “Well, what was it?’
Danny’s hand flew up like a shot to clamp his hand over his
pocket.
A small, “ugh” could be heard as
the breath was knocked out of the toad.
Both boys, holding their breath,
slowly turned to peek back around. It
wasn’t there. Only eerie puddles of
glowing green glob could be seen.
Andy quickly turned to Danny and
raised his shoulders silently as if to ask where is it.
A drop of green goo plopped between
the two boys. The smell was
everywhere. A small river of thick green
slime was running down the gold rock. Slowly their eyes traveled upward.
Penny’s Bio
My name is Penny Estelle and I was an elementary school
secretary for 21 years. I heard every
excuse and story in the book when kids would be sent to the principal. I promised myself when I retired I would
write stories about kids and that is just what I am doing.
I am retired with my wonderful husband and we live on a
fifty-four acre ranch in Arizona. We live on solar and wind. I am the “greenest” person I know, even if I
don’t want to be!
We do a lot of exploring and four-wheeling and I visit my
seven grandkids as much as I possibly can!
Please take a minute and visit me @
@pennystales - twitter
3 comments:
Very good
Oooh, super suspenseful, Penny!
great & exciting story. Good work Penny
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