THE HOUSE AT THE END OF WITCH STREET
(5,300 words)
A headteacher warns pupils that animals are going missing, and no-one should go out at night. Jonathon Jones can see the house at the end of Witch Street from his bedroom window, and one night he thinks that he sees something strange happening over there. Something which might explain the mystery of the disappearing animals. Of course boys will be boys, and he decides that he will have to go to investigate.
What happens next is the stuff of nightmares, starting with a weird conversation and ending with Jonathon losing his jumper in terrifying circumstances. Did he solve the mystery of the missing animals? He thinks so, but it is not a story he can share with anybody else.
© Sarah Thiel
