Tales From Lovecraft Middle School #2: The Slither Sisters by Charles Gilman

Author:Charles Gilman
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Monsters, School & Education, Paranormal
ISBN: 1594745935
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

“Quit now and we’ll go easy on you.”

The snake’s mouth hadn’t opened but Robert could hear it speaking—or, rather, he could hear Sarah and Sylvia speaking, as plainly as if they were standing right beside him. Robert would have said “Okay” if he’d been capable of saying anything—but he lacked the strength to even nod his head. The edges of his vision were going dark. The room was fading. He felt like he was back underwater, stuck at the bottom of the swimming pool with no gate in sight.

Then Pip and Squeak stumbled out from under the bed, drawn by the unfamiliar voices. They saw the snake and immediately sprang into attack mode, leaping onto Robert’s nightstand and toppling his lamp. It fell to the ground with a crash. The boa hissed. Pip and Squeak leaned back on their haunches, baring their teeth.

“Robert?” Mrs. Arthur called from her bedroom. “What’s that noise?”

“Don’t come in,” Robert tried to shout, only no sounds could leave his mouth, not anymore.

The hallway light came on, filling the gap under Robert’s bedroom door with a pale yellow glow. The boa gave him one last warning—a squeeze that nearly made his heart pop like a balloon—before uncoiling itself and darting toward the open window. Mrs. Arthur’s frantic footsteps were already coming down the hallway. As the last of the snake disappeared through the window, Pip and Squeak hurried under the bed just as the door opened, flooding the room with light.

His nightstand lamp lay in broken pieces on the floor.

“What happened?” Mrs. Arthur asked.

Robert couldn’t speak. He was still catching his breath.

“And why is your window open? It’s freezing in here!”

She walked over to the window and slammed it shut.

“I’m sorry,” he said. “I was just having another nightmare. I reached for my light and I guess I knocked it over.”

“See, that’s the thing I hate about Halloween,” Mrs. Arthur said. “They put all these violent movies on television and then kids can’t sleep at night. We’re cutting back on screen time, Robert, do you understand me?”

“All right,” he said.

“And you need to be more careful. Lamps cost money!”

After his mother had left the room and closed the door, Robert got out of bed and walked over to his window. Under the light of a full moon, his backyard was bathed in a soft pale glow. He could see the boa slithering across the grass, crossing toward a hedge at the rear of the lawn.

Standing behind the hedge, waiting for the snake, were two silhouettes of human figures—two identical silhouettes. Robert couldn’t see their faces, yet he knew exactly who they were.

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