Neighbours by Colin Thompson

Author:Colin Thompson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Australia
Published: 2005-10-15T16:00:00+00:00

The next one to vanish was Tracylene. She was out in the back yard one night, waiting in the bushes for her second-best backup replacement boyfriend. She was wearing her new purple mini-skirt with the split up the side and an incredibly bright red lipstick she had bought off the internet that was guaranteed to drive boys wild.16 On her feet, she wore a pair of shoes with such high heels that she had to stand on a box to put them on.

The boy, who had said his name was Jean-Claude but was actually called Graham, was lost in some bushes in a house over the road. Tracylene was getting so bored waiting that she’d actually started eating her nail varnish.17 As she nibbled at her nails, not realising they were false and highly toxic, she noticed the hole that Dickie had made in the fence through to number 13.

Maybe Jean-Claude’s through there, she thought and squeezed herself through into the Floods’ garden. It was quiet, very, very quiet, and dark. The moon was hiding behind the trees and the only light was from the eerie strange mushrooms growing on a mound of grass by the washing line. There were fifteen mushrooms and they glowed like the luminous letters on an old clock.

Tracylene tottered over to the mushrooms and looked down at them. There was a sucking, popping sound as the mushroom between her feet vanished into the ground. Tracylene turned to leave but it was too late. The mound of grass was Queen Scratchrot’s grave and she was having her dinner. The grave split open and a skeleton arm shot out and grabbed Tracylene around the ankle. She fell flat on her face, and before she could make a sound, a second skeleton arm stuffed one of the glowing mushrooms into her mouth and began to drag her into the grave.

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