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Kevin Yarbrough
04-07-2005, 02:37 AM
The kids stood there staring up at the big house on the outskirts of town. They had no idea if the stories that surrounded this place were true, or if the grownups just used them to keep the kids away. If they weren’t true then they should have known better, never tell a kid anything like the stories that surrounded Pine Estate unless they were true, otherwise kids would be tempted to go in there. For years they had thought about it, but they could never build up enough courage to actually go through with it. The stories were just to scary and there seemed to be no discrepancies between them when any of the grownups told them. Out of the fifty grownups in Rollins, Illinois each one told the stories exactly the same way. To the kids that seemed more than just a coincidence. So how did they find themselves standing in front of the house on Halloween night? It was all because of Frankie Andrews. His dad was the sheriff and when Frankie asked him about the house his father began to tell the story just like he had always done.

“Adam Pine was said to have been involved with black magic and he kept his wife and daughter prisoners in their home. He was said to have been communicating with the demons, using his wife Ellen, and twelve year old daughter as sexual favors for the demons that came to his call.

Now they never left the house, only on rare occasions when they needed something from town, but it was these times that you could see the beatings the girls took up there. Black eyes, swollen faces, busted lips where just some of the noticeable symptoms, but there were other symptoms, deeper ones that you could see when you looked into their eyes. Whatever they were going through up there was bad, beyond anything you could think of. One day, when they came to town, you could see red lines running down the backs under the girls shirts. It looked like something had scratched theirs backs deep and the blood was staining their shirts. Everyone saw it, but no one said anything. They were to scared. They didn’t want whatever wrath had befallen the girls to come to them. Everyone was scared of Adam Pine, and they had good reason. He was an evil man. He used his family to whatever means he could to get what he wanted. As they left, your granddaddy, Sheriff Michael Andrews saw the mother turn around and whisper help us. It was at that moment he knew he couldn’t let this kind of abuse go on.

He didn’t believe in the demonic mumbo-jumbo, he just thought that Adam was a sadistic man that needed to be stopped. Later that week he called a meeting and asked for anybody to help him put a stop to Adam Pine’s reign of terror on his family, four people volunteered. John Smith, Mark Reynolds, Upton James, and Richard Stanley. The five of them went up there on Halloween night 1946 to take Adam in, but what they found when they got there took them by surprise. The basement of the house had been converted into a shrine, there were tables with cuffs on them, shackles on the wall. Dad also said that there had been some kind of symbol carved into the floor. He didn’t know what it was but he said it was painted in red, or blood, he wasn’t to sure. When they tried to free the naked mother and daughter from the tables they were hit by some unseen force that knocked them across the room, when they got up they could see Adam laughing behind the shrine as something invisible moved on top of the girls. Whatever they were they were having their way with them. They took off out of there, the pleas of the women following them as they ran up the stairs.

MacAllister
04-07-2005, 07:56 AM
Frankie Andrews looked at his two pals, Zach and Curtis, then looked up the hill toward the house. He let his voice trail off on a somber note, while he told the story of the old Pine house.

Zach's eyes were wide, and he looked up the hill toward the house. Curt looked sidelong at Frankie, then rolled his eyes.

"No one has been inside since old man Pine died, years ago." Frankie whispered to the other two boys, "until tonight."

"Frankie..." Zach's voice squeaked, so he cleared his throat and tried again. "Frankie, I don't know if this is such a good idea..."

"Jesus. You're such a p*ssy. Frankie, I told you we should leave him at home," Curtis said. He stuffed his hands deep in the pockets of his jean jacket and scuffed the toe of one sneaker in the gravel on the edge of the road. "So are we gonna do this, or what?"

"Come on, don't tell me you don't feel it too," Zach said, "I don't know, you guys. I don't think this is such a hot idea. Just look at the place. ." He looked at Frankie then back at Curtis. "It just feels evil."

Curt snorted. In a quavering falsetto he said, "It just feels evil!" He thumped Frankie on the back and laughed. "Maybe one of us should walk little Zach-y home before it gets too dark out."

"Shut up." Zach smacked Curtis on the arm. "I'm not scared."

"Come on. Knock it off, both of you." Frankie made his voice level, like his dad sounded, giving orders to a deputy. "We gotta get going, if we want to get home before the sun comes up."

Liam Jackson
04-10-2005, 12:32 AM
“You go first, Zach. Now, hurry up!”

“Why me?” Zach whined. “This is all your idea,” he said, stabbing a dirty finger at Curtis.
Frankie ignored them both, and crept forward along the weed-choked walkway. He would go alone, if need be. He didn’t like the notion, but he would do it. This wasn’t about childish challenges or silly games of 'truth and dare'. This was a trial, a rite of passage. Hell, to some degree, family honor was at stake.


From the moment he first heard the story as a small child, Frankie Andrews knew he would someday enter the Pines house, and now, time was running out. The house was slated for demolition in ten days and it was now or never.

He ducked beneath the plastic line of barricade tape and edged nearer to the shadows that ran along the edge of the house. It wouldn’t do for one of the town’s adults to discover them, call them away before the mission was completed. Behind him, Frankie could hear Zach and Curtis. The two boys postponed their argument once they discovered Frankie had moved on without them. Wasn’t that always the case?


Now safe within the shadows, Frankie paused to rest. He leaned one hand on his knee and the other against the corner of the old house. As skin touched wood, Frankie let out a muffled shout. The pain was horrible!

“Shut up, man! You want to get us all caught?” whispered Curtis. Zach leaned forward and said, “You almost scared the bejeezus right outta me! What happened?”

“I—I’m not sure,” said Frankie. “I just leaned against the house and it, like, burned me or something… Oh, hell, this smarts!”

Zach pulled an old Storm King lighter from his jeans packed and gave the wheel a couple of quick flicks. On the second try, a tiny yellow flame sprouted from lighter. He held the flame low to the ground, and Frankie bent down to examine his injured hand. A thin, angry blister stretched across his palm.


Wide-eyed, Zach stammered, “M—mabye its t—time to go. I don’t l-like this place and i--it doesn't like us." Even Curtis seemed ready to call it a night.

Frankie pulled a handkerchief from his back pocket and wound it tightly around his injured hand. “You guys can leave if you want, but I’m going in. Without looking back, Frankie headed for the stairs.



*edited to clean up the format