The Boogie Monster by Karran Bradley (7th Grader)

Josh was a 7 year old boy who was always scared. He was scared because a gigantic monster named Boogie would surprise him every year on the first day of October. Boogie did this by jumping out of Josh’s closet when he least expected it. However, this October 1st was different. That night josh was watched the clock on the wall in his room and steered at his closet as he waited to see a big monster with bogged feet, hairy body, and 12 eyes jump out. That night Josh waited and waited but Boogie never came.

The next day, when Josh woke up, he was sad that Boogie didn’t come to visit him. He looked under his bed, in his closet and everywhere else in his room but found nothing. Then he decided to check in the bathroom. Josh was right. He found Boogie taking a bubble bath in the tub. Josh rushed into his room, took one of the towels and ran back into the bathroom. Boogie was shocked as Josh pulled him out of the bath tub and dried him off. Then Josh pushed Boogie into his room before his mom saw him.

When boogie was dry, Josh pushed the monster into his closet and locked his closet from the outside. Boogie was yelling and banging for Josh to let him out but Josh just ignored him. When Josh got downstairs, he ate breakfast and went to school. For lunch he realized that he didn’t leave Boogie any water or food then he started to freak-out and he played sick. Josh was sent home and as soon as he got home, he gave Boogie water and some food in the kitchen. Josh was so happy that his mom wasn’t home so that he and Boogie could watch TV and eat and play but he realized that boogie seemed a little sad. Josh asked Boogie what was wrong and Boogie told him that the older they got the less they would see each other.

Josh, starting to feel sad, said with a broken voice, “Boogie I will miss all the games we used to play like scaring to snot out of kids on Halloween night and hide and seek in the dark. Josh began to cry as Boogie got up to leave. Josh hugged Boogie before he disappeared between the clothes in the closet.

A few years passed and Boogie had stopped visiting Josh. Another two years passed and Josh was twelve but still no visit from Boogie. Every Halloween Josh would look into his empty closet hoping that he would see a big loveable monster; alas there was nothing, not even a hair from Boogie’s back.

One morning he got up and opened his closet. There he was. The gigantic twelve eyed monster that Josh had been waiting for finally returned. Josh jumped on Boogie and cheerfully asked, “Where have you been you fluffy piece of monster?”