By: Rachel

One day I decided to go see the Mahon house. It is a bright white and dark brown with lots of tall, hollow pillars around the outside. It has a big wooden front door that squeaks when you open it.

The big brass handle looks rusty and faded. I went inside the house only to discover it has a big staircase made of wood. I walked up the stairs and they creaked. I sat down on a chair and it broke.

The owner often keeps his horses and hay in the basement. It smells like a barnyard. It was also very messy with hay everywhere. The Mahon house is at the bottom of the big hill.

By: Sage

One sunny day I decided to go for a walk outside. The warm wind was blowing hard. Suddenly I stopped. Looking around, I could see a big house with brown chipped paint looking as if it is going to fall off at any moment. I wondered to myself, what could this building be? It is the old Mahon house. I look at the house. It looks like it has thick, sticky spider

webs draped all over it. I go up to the old, dusty door and into the house. When I open the door, I am shocked to find that there is a ton of horse poop in the basement. I also see that there is hay in the basement too. The basement smells horrible almost like the barnyard at my house. When I try to leave the old, creepy, spider webbed house, I discover that I am trapped.

I am very scared and when I try to leave, I trip over a skeleton's head. It looks like it is brand new because the skin is sticking like glue to the skull. I scream a loud, high-pitched scream and run towards an open window. I climb up the wall and out the window. I run all the way home as fast as my legs will go. At home, I hide under my bed until supper.

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