Part of Your Nightmare by Vera Strange EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Vera Strange
- Language: English
- Genre: Children’s Scary Stories
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UNDER THE SEA
Cold water enveloped Shelly as she plunged.
She spiraled down through what appeared to be tangles of kelp. What
was happening to her? Where was she going? Finally, she somersaulted to a
stop in a dim underwater cavern.
She began to swim, holding her breath, not sure where she was going,
just knowing she needed to find an exit, to find air. But seaweed snagged at
her ankles, trapping her.
“Leave here . . . turn back!” came a tiny, pained voice as clear as day,
even that far underwater.
Shelly looked down and saw faces on the seaweed. And with her heart
racing and air running out, she realized it wasn’t seaweed at all, but
withered gray life-forms with sallow eyes and gaping, contorted mouths.
They were nothing she had ever studied or seen in the aquarium. They
couldn’t be talking to her, though. She must have imagined it.
A current gripped her and sucked her down.
She tried to swim against it, but it was too strong. Her lungs ached, fit to
burst.
Suddenly, an enormous crystal ball clamped around her, and her mouth
opened in a silent scream. But then the water drained from the enclosure,
and she was able to breathe, though she spluttered and spat and pounded her
fists on the curved crystal.
“Help! Let me out!” she yelled. Everything looked distorted through the
glass. She could barely make out the underwater cavern. Glass bottles lined
the rough-hewn walls, and there were glowing anemones and the eyes of
those . . . things. She gasped as something huge, bulbous, and black swam
past her. What was that?
“Lose something, dear?” The same deep, rich voice she’d heard in her
little brother’s bedroom emanated from the shadowy corner of the cavern.
“So coy!” A black tentacle shot out of the gloom and rapped on the glass.
Shelly cowered, fear gripping her.
“Wh-what do you want?” she gasped.
THREE DAYS EARLIER
STRAWSSUCK
“Circle up and pay attention, students!”
Mr. Aquino attempted to corral his class, a rowdy group of sixth graders
from Triton Bay Middle School, as they gathered around the main aquarium
exhibit. When the chatter quieted only a little, he raised his voice again.
“Now, who can tell me what this marine animal is called?” he said, pointing
to a large graceful creature paddling through the rippling blue water.
Before Shelly could stop herself, she stuck up her hand. “Leatherback
sea turtle.”
“Very good, Shelly,” Mr. Aquino said. “Now, why do sea turtles eat
plastic bags?”
“ ’Cuz they’re dumb fish!” Normie Watson said, prompting snickering.
“Actually, they’re not fish—they’re reptiles,” Mr. Aquino said with a
disapproving frown. “And they’re not dumb. They’re actually very smart!
Now . . . anybody else?”
Shelly was secretly glad that he’d shut Normie down. Serves him right.
She watched the sea turtle drift past the sunken pirate ship and treasure
chest that decorated the faux-undersea environment. It wheeled around a
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