i i i i i i i i i i A PUBLICATION OF 826MICHIGAN PUBLISHED BY BLOTCH BOOKS, MICHIGAN A Collection of Stories by the Writing for Adventure Summer 2022 Writers Club Let’s Haunt It’s Raining Creepy, Spooky, Haunted Hot Dog Dolls
Contents Warning! ..................................................................... The Adventure of Marry Bella and the Haunted Doll Screaming Hot Joe .................................................. The Formula for a Scary Object
Contents ..................................................................... 1 the Doll ........................... 3 Doll ....................................... 7 .................................................. 13 Object Story ................. 15
Dear Readers, READ THESE STORIES (They’re pretty scary.) Warning!
1 AT YOUR OWN RISK! scary.) Warning!
Writers Club
The Adventure of by
of Marry the Doll Club Group 1
There once was a haunted doll called The Doll with the nickname Marry. The Doll steps on people and scares them at night because someone hurt her mom at night years ago. Her mom was made by a company.
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The Doll is humongous, her feet creek like wooden bricks, and she has reddish-yellow hair. The Doll wears a checkered red dress. She tries to get revenge by hurting people. The Doll turns them into frogs and she moves
around when people sleep. The Doll needs spooky kids to bring her mom back as a ghost. The kids need a spell from a spell book from a mean witch. They have to go to the cemetery at 12 at night to break the spell. If they don’t get there at 12am, then they have
4 to start again the next day. They also have a hard time getting up! The kids have to say the spell aloud together at the same time! In order for her mom to not be a ghost and The Doll to return to a human, the kids need to break the spell. The kids break the spell after 100 times
of trying to say the spell together at the same time. It takes a minute for the spell to kick in for The Doll and her mom to change back. The End
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Bella and the by Writers Club
Haunted Doll Club Group 2
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nce upon a time, the Doll Family (that was their last name) moved into a new house. They were happy that they moved into the new house, so they decided to go exploring to the basement, the bedrooms, *ALMOST*
7 everywhere! However, the parents said that going to the attic was FORBIDDEN (secretly, the mom used to go there in the summers when she was a kid, and SOMETHING BAD would happen when her mom would go
there: there was a curse). The daughter, Bella Poppy Doll, went up to the attic anyway, which she wanted to use as her playroom. She climbed a ROPE to get up there! When she got there, she saw an old stuffed baby doll with braids—the CREEPY kind. The
8 doll was sitting on a wooden chair facing the window. She had a big, CREEPY smile. Bella Poppy Doll wasn’t looking at the doll; she was looking at a rusty can. While her back was turned, the dollBellaMOVED.Poppy Doll SCREAMED and ran
downstairs! It was time for dinner, but Bella didn’t tell anybody what happened.Now,why was the doll so evil? One day, when Bella Poppy Doll’s mother was a child and it was time for dinner, she dropped it and one of its eyes broke. They forgot to fix it. It wants
9 to live by itself and they’re intruding in its space.When it was time for bed, she heard a scraping noise on the window, and she tucked into her blankets. She thought to herself, “It’s probably just a stick tapping on the window.” She
looked at the window, and she saw the doll! Bella Poppy Doll didn’t want to leave her room. She fell asleep and had a dream about fixing this creepy doll. The doll was upset about its broken eye, the one that her mother had broken as a child, and its eye was in the
10 rusty can in the attic! When she woke up, she knew what she had to do. She talked to her mother, and her mother shared her needle and thread and tied the doll’s eye back on. She fixed the eye and then they became best friends—the doll was her new favorite
doll! (But now, Bella’s bat doll was angry that it was no longer her favorite doll . . . would the bat doll become like the other doll?!) End
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Screaming by Kylee
Screaming Hot Joe Kylee Jackson
nce upon a time, there was a coffee mug named Joe. Joe could ONLY have coffee. Any other liquid would make Joe mad. If you put milk in Joe, he would come alive and yell at you for pouring milk in him and not
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One day, a girl named Star wanted some apple juice, but then she grabbed Joe.
coffee. Joe would yell all day or all night so you get no sleep. The only way you could make Joe be quiet is to pour coffee the next morning.
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Dun dun duuuun. She didn’t know about Joe because she did not live there. She was the owner of the house’s sister. Like I said, she did not know about Joe until she started pouring apple juice and then JOE SCREAMED REALLY LOUD!!! Star was freaking out and
14 panicking. She was scared until she threw it, but it ended up out the window. The owner of the house was not mad. He wanted to throw it out the window, too. The End
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