3˚B ESO English Stories

Title: The Kidnapping

Author: Angela Cuesta Solana

One day the children decided to go to the park without their parents. When they arrived, Sara was playing alone while Emily and Max were talking on a bench looking at her.  In the park there were a lot of young and old people, but one man was very strange and alone. The man was hanging nearby the young people.

Emily and Max walked to the newsstand to buy some sweets for Sara. When they went to give the sweets to Sara, they couldn’t see her. They searched for her all around the park for one or two hours. Then, Emily realized that the strange man wasn't there and she told Max. They went running to their house to tell their parents what had happened-- but their parents, Mary and Peter, weren't in. They had left. Emily and Max decided to call the police and told them what had happened. The police told the children that they were going to search for Sara and that the children should go back to the park and look around for her. Max and Emily were very nervous because their sister had disappeared.

Two days later…                                                                                                                                        The children hadn’t slept at all because her sister hadn't appeared.

When they were at home, the police called and told them that Sara was great but she was with the strange man from the park and if they want to help their sister they would have to help the police to rescue Sara.

Max told Sara that he didn't want to do it because he thought that it was very dangerous, and Sara might be the one in danger. When they finished talking Emily told the police that she would do it. The police told Emily what she had to do and Emily did it very well and she saved Sara from the strange man and the police detained him.

Since that day Emily has been the hero of her family and Max just "the simple boy."                                 Because of this, their parents now pay all their attention to their children and the children are happier than ever before.

                                   

Title: Untitled

Author: Paula Gómez Gómez

One night I was going through a forest, where there had been many cases of suicide. The forest was so enormous that only human remains were found. I was driving, and a little scared because I knew about the forest's infamy.

"My God," I thought, "no wonder people come here to commit suicide! This is more lost than ... uh, what's that?"

I felt there was something in the road, and when I got close I saw it was a couple lying on the ground. The girl did not move but the boy was making a sign for help.

I got out and asked, "What happened to you to make you come to a place like this?"

"We came here to commit suicide. We wanted to get married, but our parents would not let us, so we came here. I am sorry, please take us to a hospital."

I took the car up to the girl who did not move and helped the boy to climb in. I went as fast as I could to reach the nearest hospital while the boy's voice said, "Is the hospital far away? Please hurry!"

I arrived at the hospital. "Help, please, there are two that are very seriously injured!"

It seemed that the boy had lost consciousness.

I had to wait a while until doctor examining them both had finished.

"Doctor, how are you?"

"Sit down ... let's see, you found them in the woods, right?"

"Yes."

 "How long ago?"

"It was... an hour or a little more ago..."

I explained that I had spoken with the boy.

"Yes, the girl was not conscious but the guy told me what happened and all the way here he was telling me to go fast, that I should hurry."

Everything was very strange.

"I have examined them both and the two have been dead for at least five hours..."

Title: The Kidnapping

Author: Alejandro Rodrigues Barquin

One day Norman woke up, had breakfast, took a shower, and got dressed as usual. One hour later he went to work, then he went back home.

At nighttime he started to feel weird. He was feeling ill and he decided to go to hospital.

The doctor found out he had been infected by a virus.

The doctor told him he should have an operation because his brain was being attacked.

He was losing his memory and later on wouldn`t be able to walk.

It was a very dangerous operation.

Norman was very concerned because he didn’t know what to do. He couldn't imagine living with a disability. He felt very nervous but at the end Norman opted to undergo the operation.

The operation was complicated because the parasite was very strong. It was time that the doctors demonstrated their abilities, and the operation dragged on for several hours.

However, when Norman awoke after the operation, the parasite had disappeared.  

Norman took several weeks to recover from the operation and the scars took a long time to heal, but he was a new man and he opted to have a more active life.   

Title: Something Strange

Author: Ylenia Fernandez Ruiz

     

Today is Friday morning. I stand up, and I start to put my clothes on. Four years ago my dad died in a traffic accident, and tonight, I´m going to run.

The morning was the same as always. The same guys as always insulted me and someone pushed me. Sometimes I think that I have to start using my boxing skills, but then I think that I have to hide my secret part. I'm glad of my friends who are always with me. Their names are: Neith, Zahra, Edward and Derek.                                                                                                                

Is 12.00 pm, and I´m in my car ready to start the race.

Everything is going great… I take that back, what is that? Is that… a person? What is she doing?

Yes, it's a girl. She has long brown hair and she has a dress, but I can't see her anymore. I can´t stop the car because the brakes don´t work. Why? I don´t know. Panic begins to invade me and I can only scream at the girl, but she doesn´t move. Maybe she wants to kill herself… but I don't want be responsible for her death, so I start to scream again. Now I can see her more. I think that I see her in my school.

We were less than 1 km, and do you know what happened? No, you don´t. When I arrived to there nothing happened…only I transferred her. Like if the brakes don´t work, I have an accident…like my dad. Yes. My dad died in an illegal race, but the question is… will I die too?

*Some months later*

Probably you are asking what happened that night. Okay, I´m going to tell you. That night, as you know, I had a crash… and I died. Yes I died. In the real world I have left many things, like my family and friends… but here, in the third world, I found things that I really like. For example, probably you will remember the girl who was in my accident.

Yes, I know about her. She was in my dancing and painting class. She has long brown hair and blue eyes, and now she´s here, with me, with a white dress. Her name? Hessa. I love her name because it is unique.

The day that I died, she helped me and she told me a secret. She was in love with me and I realized that I loved her too. But I was always in love with her, I never realized it before but then I thought of those times that I looked at her secretly or when I looked at her besotted… Now we are together. In a few days we will finish a painting.

It is us together, and I don´t know if you can believe it but… we are expecting a baby.

I think that this is the girl that I always dreamed… She is my girl.

Title: The Book

Author: Natalia Cociu

I get up little by little.

I feel pressure on my head.

I notice my hands are tied.

I hear voices. I think they are foreign voices.

I start to remember…

I was in my kitchen. I was cooking my dinner. Suddenly, the doorbell rang. A person beat at my door. I thought it was very strange. I went to open the door, but a person threw it open first. I started running, and I grabbed my book and I hid it. After hiding the book, I managed to escape and hide in the attic. I immediately knew that this man would find me and that was probably the same man who killed my mother in that alley. A few minutes passed before I heard footsteps coming towards me, and now, the last thing I remember is being here, trapped in a small dark room.

*                             *                          *

It all started long ago, with my mother's murder. My life stopped 10 years ago. By then I was 20. My mother was a former CIA agent. She had a book with many hidden mysteries, a book capable of starting a third world war. In that book, there was information on bank accounts and payments to well-known people, who are today presidents. It also had the current whereabouts of missing CIA agents.

When my mother died, I inherited this book. I've never read it. Neither do I have intention to do so. But there are people that would kill for the book.

I never found out who was the murderer of my mother, but I intend to find out. Or maybe they will find me.

I'm living in a house on the outskirts of the city, where nobody can find me. I live with my boyfriend Derek, my dog, and my fish, Ron Bob.

The murderers of my mother are moles, CIA people engaged in smuggling and terrorism. The goal is that America, my continent, stop pacts with Asia and brings to light some secrets, secrets that can only be revealed when they have the book, causing wars between countries and poverty in America.

*                             *                          *

My hands are tied to the chair. And all my attempts to escape are futile. Until suddenly I see a piece of broken glass on the floor. I get up to move the chair that I am in and I grab the glass. I break the string and loosen my hands. I hear footsteps coming towards the room where I am. So I decide to try to escape through a small window at the back. I decide to take a car and go home. When I arrive I see that the door is forced but still decide to go and see my boyfriend. And suddenly something hits my head. I do not know how long I've been unconscious, but when I get to open my eyes perfectly there is a tall, middle-aged, and quite muscular man pointing a gun.

"Where is the book?" he asks.

I do not answer, so the man hits me in the face.

He asks me again about 3 times until I am almost knocked unconscious.

Then the man says:

"You're just like your mother, you never speak when you have to. And now you will suffer the consequences. I'll ask again, where is the book?"

"Go burn."

So I thought my time had come, but then someone collapses down the door and the man drops dead in front of my feet. The murderer of my mother was there, dead, after all this time. And now, I finally could start to be happy. The police untied me, and I ran to hug my boyfriend. Now, I could start a new life.

Regarding the book, you'll save me, because my mother died for a cause, and that cause is mine today.

Title: The Shadow

Author: Francisco Rodríguez Terán

I am Albert. I was born in Brussels.  I have brown hair and blue eyes. I am 1,80m tall. I haven´t got a family. I'm a detective. I like the night.

I was going to the Grand Place when I saw a shadow. The shadow was very big. I followed it. The shadow ran faster and when the shadow arrived at the train station, he caught a train to Brujas. I caught the same train. In the train he stood up twice.

The second time I stood up and I followed him. When I was in the other wagon, I heard a scream. I went towards the scream and saw a girl lying down on the floor with blood. I called the police.

When the train arrived at Brujas, the shadow left the train.

When I was in the city center, he entered a house and I heard another scream. I called the police.

The shadow arrived at the canal. He caught a boat and I caught another boat. He caught the canal at Gante. When we arrived at Gante, another person stood up and the shadow talked to this person. I heard “$1,000,000." They caught a car. And they disappeared. I saw a note in the street. The note said “Paris, Boulevard Clichy at 21:00”

The next day, I bought the ticket on-line for the next train, which left at 17.00h from Brussels-Midi.

It was a rainy day with dark clouds. It was 19:00h when the train stopped. We stood still. The lights went off. Suddenly, I saw a man running out of the train. A second after, the train started to move. It was a very strange situation.

We arrived to Paris-Nord at 19:45. I bought a map of Paris. I took the underground to Boulevard Clichy. It was 21:00 when I saw the same shadow as in Belgium and I also saw the man on the train from 2 hours earlier. The shadow and the man were speaking. Suddenly they ran in opposite directions. I followed the shadow. We reached the Louvre Museum. There he broke into the rear door. He left the door open. I went in quietly. He took the lift to the second floor. He ran until the end of the corridor. I saw him take several paintings. One of them a world renowned picture of the Mona-Lisa. As he was coming, I hid in the darkness. I also noted that he took a sack with him. Suddenly, the alarms went off and dogs began barking in the other corridors. I ran until I reached the street.

A car with a driver was waiting for the shadow on the run with the paintings. The car started. I followed them on a motorcycle that was parked nearby. They headed towards Lille. I had little fuel left. Thus, I returned to Paris.

I heard airplanes above me. They were heading towards Paris. Suddenly, I heard a bomb blasting in Paris. More bombs blasted and people were screaming in the motorway. Paris was being bombed. I went to stay at a hotel near the airport. This area was nearly untouched by bombs.

The next day it was in the newspapers that Paris had been bombed by Belgium.

Suddenly, I saw a picture of the shadow on the papers. His name was under the picture, Henry Faubourg.

It said that Henry would safeguard the most important paintings of the Louvre and also $1,000,000 of the last month´s income. It also said that he had murdered a girl in a train whose destination was Brujas and other one in the city of Brujas.

These two murder victims had wanted the paintings to be destroyed by the bombing.

Since Henry was French, he wanted to save the most important paintings of the Louvre.

Title: The Guardian Angel

Author: Vanesa Molleda Rodríguez

My name is Derek. I’m from Bradford. I was born April 15 1998 and I died July 8 2013. Now, I’m an angel and I go to a special school, “Angels School”.

I always loved music, and when I was alive I played the guitar and the piano, and, well, now I can’t. Also, I had a lot of friends, I went out every weekend with them, and now I’ve got only one friend, Christopher (I call him Chris). The rest of the angels are so strange. You can’t talk to them because they scream at you. Of course, I had a family with parents, Diana and Ian, and my young sisters, Neith and Hessa. They are in the world, living their life; I suppose that they miss me like I miss them....

Is 8.00 am. I’m so excited because today starts a new school year, and I’m going to have an “exam.” I know, it's an exam. But this one is special because it is the exam to be a guardian angel. If I pass this exam with a good mark, I will start practicing. I will be the best guardian angel of times.

I have breakfast while I wait for my friend, Chris, but when I look at my watch IT IS 8.25 AM!! I start the exam at 8.30 am; I only have 5 minutes to arrive to the school. If I don’t arrive on time, my teacher will kill me. Well, I’m dead, he can’t. But there’s one thing I can’t understand: where is Chris?

I arrive on time, and now I’m doing the exam. I studied so much, and I think that I will have a really good mark. This exam is one half test and the other half is to write an essay about the rules and other things like that. I’m the last one to give the teacher my exam. The rest of the day in the school is like other days, magic class and other things that only angels can do.

I’m walking with Chris to my house; we are going to do a project for magic class. It is very easy: we take three dead flowers and we return them to life. I'd like to use one magic trick that I learned in a book, but Chris wants to use another one that we learned in class, so we use it.

We finish the project, and tomorrow we will teach to everyone in the class how to turn alive a plant, flower, or wherever you want. Maybe it will be fun, but I don’t know…

*1 week later*

Today is Friday afternoon, and my teacher calls me for something very important. He tells me that he would prefer to tell me in person, so here I am, in his office waiting. 2 minutes later, he comes and he tells the most beautiful thing that I have ever heard: I’ve got a 9 on my exam so I can start practice.

I have a girl. Her name is Isis. She is from London, and she loves to paint. She wants to be a famous painter. I saw some of her paintings and I like them. I know that she can be a painter. And I only have 4 simple rules:

1.         I only can help she when she’s got a big problem

2.         Nobody can know about me, only her

3.         I can’t use my power for anything that I want

4.         I mustn’t fall in love with her 

I’m going to start tomorrow, so my teacher gave me a lot of papers about her life, and a questionnaire for me. I can’t believe it, my dream come true, now I’m going to call Chris and tell him about the new... OMG!! I’m going to cry, this is the best thing that has ever happened to me, and it’s really cool.

In the morning, I wake up and I remember that today I’m going to help this girl. I prepare some things and I’m ready.

I’m at her front door. She lives on an orphanage because her parents died in an accident, like me, nobody wants her because she is too old. Everybody wants babies or children between 3 and 9 years old, maybe 10. Then they are too old, and when there are 16 years old, they go out of the orphanage and they start a life of their own life.

This girl, Isis, is very bad to other people, and now I will help her to change. That’s my job. It's strange because guardian’s angels do not do this work, but, well, I want to help her.

1 hour later, I’m with her in her room. She's friendlier than I imagined. She had a really traumatic life, but she knows how to continue with her life. It’s hard to say why but I like her. I know, I know, I can’t fell in love with her, but it’s difficult.

It’s really fun talk with her. I understand all that she has been through and the reasons why she is the way she is. She likes music, and she wants to learns how to play the piano. Of course I’m going to teach her. Also, I help her to so that her paintings become a little famous: now all the orphanage know about them.

Today she is going to tell me a secret. I only know that nobody can know, because the result will be very bad for me. I’m afraid, bad for me? Wow that’s strange. After classes, she came to the room and she said me “Derek, I’m so sorry, if someone find out about what I’m going to tell you… well, here I go… I love you. I fell in love with you. I know, I know, we can’t be together, but I can’t live without you.” I tell her all that I feel…

Then all turns strange, a light shines and my teacher appears. He tells me that I’m in my house. Why? I call to my teacher and he explains to me what I am doing here.

The days are like months and I miss her.  But not like other days, I feel like something is going to happen but I don’t know what it is. I’m on the sofa reading a book when I hear a scream. It sounds like Isis, but it's probably my imagination. Then I hear the door of the sky: someone died. It will be… no, that’s impossible, not my girl, no please…

I go out but I don’t see anybody. I go to the school, and there is a girl. She looks like Isis, but that can’t be possible… my teacher comes and says:

“Derek, why are you here?”

“Oh, I heard the door of the sky, and now that girl is here. What’s going on?"

“Please, come, I think that you know about each other.”

It's Isis. OMG, I miss her. I have never loved anybody like her. My teacher tells us that he one day fell in love, but he died and that person went off with another boy, so he made sure that my girl had an accident and now we can be together forever.

Title: The Life of Agapito

Author: Íñigo Pordomingo Gutiérrez

THE FIRST DAY

One day Agapito was working when suddenly a thief entered in her shop. Agapito was nervous and scared.

The thief said:

"Give me all the money that you have old man, or I’ll shoot you!"

"No!! Please do not shoot me I’ll give you everything."

While Agapito gave all his money to the thief, the thief heard a police siren and he shot one bullet at Agapito and ran out.

Agapito felt blood in his hands and he fainted.

THE SECOND DAY

Agapito thought that his life was boring and opted to steal from a bank. He made plans and called three friends.

Each had to do something. Agapito had to hack the cameras of the bank, another friend had to call Sigismundo to buy weapons, and the other had to steal two cars for the getaway.

THE BIG DAY

It was the day of the theft. Agapito would have to hack the cameras and enter the bank and shoot. The other two were at the exit waiting.

It was 12 am. Agapito and Sigismundo came in and they began to shoot.  They took all the money and ran to the exit.  They had completed the heist. They were super millionaires.

But, 2 months later, the police caught them. Agapito died in the electric chair.

Title: A Strange Voice

Author: Ana Pérez San Miguel

Her name is Vicky. She is thin and tall. She is 1.64 m tall. She weighs 53 kg. She has got blue eyes and straight blond hair. She was born in 1997, in London. She has got one brother and his name is Lucas. Her mother is Begoña and her father is Victor. She loves her family. Also, she has got a little cat called Geremias. She studies in a school in London and she has got a lot of friends. She plays football for her school team and she likes all sports. She is friendly, fun, nice and very intelligent.

Today, Vicky and her family get up and they have breakfast together. But this isn’t a normal day. Victor, her father, and Begoña, her mother, tell Vicky and Lucas that they have to move to another house for work. Vicky and Lucas don’t like the news, because they have their family and their friends at the current house.

Vicky helps her mother with everything related to the move and they find a very big and beautiful house in a pretty neighborhood of Manchester.

In order to help her parents at home, Vicky works as a babysitter for the neighbors (a young couple with a 24-month old child). Every Friday night Vicky goes to work. She gives dinner to Alisson (the child), she plays a little bit with Alisson, and then puts her to sleep. Alisson has got an intercom in her bedroom because she sleeps in an upstairs room.

One night, Vicky was sitting on the sofa waiting for Alisson´s parents when she heard a strange voice. She was scared and she went running to Alisson's room thinking that someone had entered the house. When she got to the bedroom, she saw that everything was normal. Soon, Alisson's parents came home and Vicky told them what had happened. Alisson's parents told Vicky not to worry. But Vicky could not stop thinking about it and the next time she would have to go take care of Alisson.

The following Friday, Vicky went to the neighbor's house to care for the child. She bathed the child, gave her dinner, played with her and put her to sleep. When Vicky went to sit on the sofa, she once again heard the same voice from the last Friday. She got up quickly, opened the door of Alisson´s bedroom, and saw the girl playing with her doll in the cradle. Alisson looked at Vicky and with a very sweet voice said ''come''. It was the same voice that Vicky had heard on the intercom the last Friday. Nobody knew that Alisson could speak.  She was a little girl that she didn’t speak, but she was very happy and she smiled a lot.

Five minutes later, Alisson´s parents came home. Vicky told them everything that had happened and they were very happy, because Alisson said her first word. Vicky, also, was happy to discover that there was nothing strange in Alisson´s room.

Today, two years later, Vicky and Alisson's parents remember this story with joy.

Title: The Boarding School

Author: Paula Saiz Duque

Steve is a boy who is 15 years old. He is athletic, friendly and funny, but his problem is that he does not like to study. He only wants to play football, so his parents gent angry with him.

For the last two years, he has been at a boarding school because his parents do not know how to get him to study. One night, Steve was with his friends in his room very late.

 They were so bored that they tried to escape the school.

 As they were climbing a fence, they heard a noise. The noise came from a physics and chemistry professor.

When the professor saw them, they tried to hide from him, but he began to shout at them. After catching up with the students, he said that they would be punished by having three sleepless nights.

After not sleeping for three nights, Steve was very tired.

The next day, during class, the professor began to explain that studying is extremely important as well as behaving appropriately.

But Steve fell a sleep while the teacher was speaking because he was daydreaming about playing football.

In his dreams, he saw a young boy who was living on the street. He seemed to be very worried and sad because he didn´t have any money or food.

 He looked very lonely. Steve went up to him and asked him why he was so sad.

The boy replied by saying that he didn't have anything.

Steve then asked him why why he had nothing. The homeless boy said that he didn't have anything because he had never studied.

Suddenly, Steve heard a voice in his head. It was the teacher´s voice. The teacher said: "Come on Steve, wake up". A few seconds later, Steve finally woke up.

From that moment on, Steve started to study and he started to get good marks. When boarding school finished for summer, Steve had improved in all his subjects and passed them all with great marks.

When Steve returned home, his parents were so happy that they bought him a new phone.

 Steve was excited about having a fantastic summer and was looking forward to going back to boarding school to study again.

Title: Be a Fortune Teller

Author: Lara Recio Cedrón

My real name is Caroline but all people call me Carogot, why? When you finish reading my history, you will know.

I am 32 years old. I'm a tall and thin woman. I'm 1,70 metres tall and I weigh 55 kilograms. My hair is straight and black. My eyes are big and green. My sister says that I have the prettiest eyes.

People think that I'm a good person. They think that I'm friendly, polite, and optimistic, but they also think that I'm strange because of my clothes... I hate dressing like other people, I want be a little different.

My parents died in an accident in a factory while they were working when I was 15 years old. I only have one sister, but since my parents died, I haven't seen her.

I play the violin, I love music, and I love helping other people. Since I was very little I have had an interest in ghosts, and I love to study about them too.

There is something weird about me that I discovered 16 years ago. I can see the ghosts of people's ancestors. They talk to me and request that I say things to their families. It is frightening, I know! But now it is normal for me.

Before I discovered this ability, I was a Biology teacher at Boston University. Now, I work as a fortune teller.

All day I resolve a lot of different cases.

One day, my friend Richard told me that he went to visit his mother and while they were talking, his mother's dog showed up crying and acting very, very nervous. Richard called him but the dog wouldn't walk to him directly, he made a curve as if an object was in the way. Then he hid between Richard's legs.

Richard's mother started to feel cold.

The next weekend I went with my friend to visit his mother, and I could see my friend's father. I knew that all the strange facts meant that it was the mother's husband. The husband was dead, but he visits his wife. They were separated when Richard was very young and he felt unhappy for having made his wife and Richard suffer. That same day, I talked with all the family and we resolved the family problems so that the husband could be in peace… and Richard's mother could continue with her happy life.

This is one of the cases that I have dealt with in my career. Now, I'm going to tell you the most important case for me.

It all started while I was drinking a cup of coffee with my best friend Claire two days ago. My daughter was playing with Bratz near us, and she constantly looked towards the rocking chair located near the windows. We thought that she was looking at the landscape, but no! When my daughter and I returned to our house by car, she said “Mum, who is the person that was sitting in the rocking sofa?” I was so surprised... there wasn't anybody there. I asked her “How did the person look? I didn't see her.” She began to describe... “She is a older woman. She has brown eyes and grey hair…"

The woman was a ghost! The child can see ghosts too...

Quickly, I telephoned Claire and tell her the story. She started to cry. The ghost was her mother, Nancy! Nancy sat every day in that sofa… she loved look out the windows.

Now, I am trying talk with Nancy but I can't.  Now I will go visit Claire! Bye!

Title: The Hackers

Author: Pablo Martinez Rioja

He was born in 1988. He was born in Santander. He has a brother and a sister. He is hacker. He works in his house with his computer and his hobbies are playing computer games and playing basketball. He is serious and a polite person. His name is Peter Miller.

Peter always goes to the basketball court to play basketball with his friends. Afterwards, they go to a café and they discuss about politics and sports. Peter always complains that he hasn´t got a job and that life is very expensive.

But one day, he discovered a very important thing in his life.

When he was working at home, he discovered a new website that has got a lot of information about Santander bank. For a week, he didn´t eat because he was very excited. Another day he accessed an interesting website. During a long time, he didn´t enter the web site because he was afraid that the police would discover him.

For two months, he worked at a company to create a video game. It consisted of learning a lot of languages in a short time. The video game was a revolution. The company and Peter got much money and he finished his job.

Then he investigated the interesting website. In it appeared the credits cards and all of the information about the clients. He could steal a lot of money. One day he met with a friend. He told him that he had discovered a new website and the friend proposed to him that he could steal the money. Peter agreed with the offer and they decided to steal the money.

The plan was bad. They couldn´t steal the money and the police discovered them. They went to prison for three years. They were the worst years of their lives.

Three years later they went out of the prison. They were afraid because the people knew them and when they were walking by the street, the people hit and insulted them. They were always at home and Peter couldn´t go to the basketball court or go to the café. Since they hadn´t money, they decided to use the website another time. But this time with more care. First, they stole the money of the elders. Then, the money of the young people and finally, the money of the rich people.

The Santander bank was ruined and the owner of the bank decided to contract Peter and his friend Steve. They returned all the stolen money and they became rich. They earned cent hundred euros per month.

Title: The Hunter's Street

Author: Oscar Iglesias Martinez

This story is about a weird person that does weird things. His name is Ernesto Ramiro de la Fuente. Ernesto is very tall, he´s around 1´97m, he only has hair at the back of his head.

He is very thin and he weighs around 70kg.

Also, Ernesto is an optimistic person and very fun but at midnight all of this personality turns to the opposite, maybe a result of the absence of family.

Ernesto is alone. The weird things he does are clean the car and have showers at midnight.

One day when Ernesto was going to do the weird things that he does, he heard thunder that moved all his house and then he fell down the stairs and he hit his head. Then all that he could see was strange-- the car looked like a monster and the house was a cave for him.

This is the beginning of an amazing history.

One week later Ernesto still had the same problems, but it was normal for him. Next to him, other neighbors started to listen to noises that came from Ernesto´s house it could be because he was destroying his house. Now, he also has mental problems.

Maybe he is angry with all the world, but he not only is he destroying his house, he also is destroying the street with things that he found in the garage like drills and big knives. Two days later one neighbour called Agustino went to Ernesto´s house but he didn´t open the door and Agustino was too afraid because he didn´t know what Ernesto could do with the mental problems that he had. He tried to enter by the garage but it wasn´t possible.

Then, Ernesto opened the second story window and, with a throwing knife, he killed Agustino. Maybe Agustino didn´t have any family because nobody asked for him in the street. The only thing that I can say about it is that all the people of the street died that same week. Then, the whole city started talking about this street. They called it "The Hunter´s Street." 

Title: The Murder House

Author: Paula González

In a small village where always it’s raining, there was a house called “the murder house”. Everybody who had lived in the murder house had already died. The man who made this house was killed by two black men. Then, a scientist who bought the house was killed with a knife by the first man's spirit. In the murder house also lived a family. The father committed suicide, and the child were hurt. The mother died in a car accident. The murder house was used to be a psychology ward, but many people escaped and some people went to the basement, to starve there. Today, a family is living in the murder house.

"Mom, I hate it here," said Jake, "I want to go home."

"This is now our home," said Sarah, "it was your father’s decision."

"You will make a lot of friends here," said Bill.

Jake wasn’t a very sociable person. He was too pessimistic. Jake and his family moved out of city once a year, so Jake didn't have friends. He hated that house. There was something scary about it. When they came to the house, there weren’t any lights. There were only voices. The murder house was big, all made of wood. It was very cheap because of the crimes.

Always, the first day of school is hard. Jake was 17 years old with blond hair and grey eyes. He was tall and thin. He was sitting at a chair, at the end of 1ºC class, but he wasn’t listening to his teacher. He only heard voices. “It’s you, only you,” they said. But it wasn’t him.

Sarah was cooking dinner. They had a dangerous gas kitchen. Suddenly, the fire started to burn the kitchen. Sarah couldn’t so anything. She burned with the kitchen.

Bill was at the garden planting tomatoes when he saw a shadow. He followed it into the garage. He saw a very thin kid in a corner. He walked through the garage, near the kid.

"Are you OK?" asked Bill.

The little kid turned round. His face was burned, and he didn't have eyes. Bill couldn’t go out of the garage because the kid started to kick him. Bill died.

Jake was in his bedroom. He was alone. He didn't have a family. He missed his parents. He took a bottle of pills in his hand. He committed suicide.

Title: The Passenger

Author: Ester Tolsada

Daniel dined something light. He was still tired from the trip.

The shock had given him wild nerves. He still felt a strange feeling in his gut.

He thought that from that moment on it was going to be unpleasant to travel by at night. Just remembering the face that looked at him with malice revived almost the same fear.

Now, Damian ignored that terror lurked in his own home.

He finished his dinner and watched television for a while, then went to bed. He fell asleep quickly, and then descended into the world of dreams. In that world he could also access other beings.

He found himself moving toward an angry crowd gathered in the street of a rural town. People were dressed in old clothes; it was the past. On the street were two oxen pulling a cart, and that cart had a cage with a witch inside. People were throwing things and cursing, lifting axes, pitchforks and hoes. Some children came through and the crowd opened. Everyone wanted to see, but after the first look, the witch started hiding. The witch was cursing at everyone and uttered some words that nobody understood.

The woman was thin with a bloated abdomen, a physical feature that added more to the unpleasantness because it gave her a grotesque look.

They stopped the car in a square, and the strongest people went to get her out of the cage.

The men had to use all their strength to get her and the struggle lasted some time because they were afraid of letting the witch go. They were able to control her but not completely immobilize her. The witch was writhing and screaming curses. For a moment, she glanced at everyone as if to memorize their faces, and when her gray eyes fixed on Damien, it felt like an onslaught of terror.

In the center of the square there was a post buried in the ground vertically. They tied her to the post and then gathered wood and dry branches. They were going to burn her at the stake.

As the flames grew and enveloped her, the people screamed out shouts of victory. But a few minutes later they began to worry about their own act, for she was still moving.

Like in any dream, time was distorted and suddenly it became night. The fire still smoldered, and the wind was blew at flying embers that went out, dancing in the night. There was not much left of the witch, but among the few remains there was a swollen belly protruding, now black and smoky.

On an impulse he could not control, Damian moved closer. The bulging belly shook and then burst open, and a terrifying baby leaped at Damian's face. Damian cried in his sleep and awoke in his bed. Without his noticing, someone was watching him from a dark corner of the room.

He went to the bathroom and washed his face. "What a nightmare!" he thought. Looking in the mirror, he saw that there were circles around his eyes.

Dreaming of the creature after having it as a passenger was nothing strange for Damien.

He went back to bed but could not sleep. He was afraid to dream again.

He started wanting to sleep in the morning, but had to go to work. At work he did a little, and at times he forgot that monstrosity. His teammates noticed he was tired, and they all joked that his weekend was very busy. Damien smiled reluctantly.

If they knew what had happened... but I tell you it would take a madman or a liar.

Back at home, in the car, he kept yawning and almost did not stop at a red light. That night he had to rest, no matter what.

Being winter, the days were short. There was no point waiting until bedtime, but it was better to sleep through the night.

At bedtime he thought he was going to wake up fresh in the morning. First he felt his body lighten after his head seemed enormous. Cluttered memories passed one after another.

Now he was walking in the path of a forest, and he was not alone. There was a woman walking beside him and carrying a baby in her arms. It was a bright day and light filtering through the branches everywhere. Suddenly, the landscape changed radically and the forest was now leafless, and it rocked and moaned everywhere. Looking at the woman, she became the witch from his previous nightmare. A small, rough hand touched his face, and now the baby looked awful.

When he awoke he thought he abruptly withdrew something from his face, and it was this tiny wrinkled hand. He could no longer sleep.

In the morning, he went again to work. He thought of calling a taxi, but he was so tired he forgot and automatically got into his car. A few blocks away, at an intersection, his car bumped into a truck. Inside the car, Damien beat and shook as the vehicle turned over.

When everything finally fell quiet, he felt his life slipping away through his various injuries. And between braking and the voices of some people who came see, he heard the chuckle of his passenger, now invisible.

Title: Liverpool

Author: Adrián España Sainz

One day when I was sleeping the phone rang. It was a man who I did not know, and he asked me if I wanted to go to England to play for Liverpool.

I did not know what to say. After a few days, I decided to accept his proposal. My parents and my brother helped me a lot with this decision.

The man told us that at the airport there would be 5 tickets for us on Saturday, but when we went they were not there. We thought we had won the tickets, but then found out that the tickets were fake and we realized that the man was an impostor.

We realized that the call had come from our neighborhood, and that made me remember the man's voice and remember that it sounded familiar.

On the floor above ours lived a family and father got along very well with me. His voice was the familiar voice, and realized that everything had been a joke.

Title: Spinach's Story

Author: Eugenio Garcia Ortiz

Her name was Spinach, Spinach Smith. She was born on December 28th. Her mum died giving birth so her father got very angry, and as he was so angry he called her baby Spinach. Spinach grew up and she became an unfriendly, pessimistic and mean person. Her life was miserable.

One day, Spinach found a key. She didn`t know what it was for, and she tried to open a lot of doors but there was no result. A few days later some schoolmates were bullying her and she fell behind the moss and saw a strange door. At first she thought that it was going to be another door which her key couldn't open. But anyway, she put the key into the lock and... surprise!!! It was the right door.

When she opened it she entered into a long corridor. She was walking in it for ten minutes until she saw a bright light. She started towards the light (but she didn't run too fast because she was fat) and when Spinach arrived at the end of the corridor she saw an incredible and marvelous scene. There, in front of her, there was a town, a town called WEIRDLAND.

Everybody who is ugly, different or weird should live in Weirdland. Spinach couldn't believe what her eyes were seeing. There were a lot of weird people going for a walk (with their weird dogs), doing the shopping or eating in a weird food restaurant (also called fast food).

For the first time in her life she didn't feel different. She was so happy! And she was also tired so she went to the nearest tavern. She entered and ordered a coke, a big hamburger, chips and nuggets. She was really hungry.

When the waiter appeared with the meal, it was love at first sight. They fell in love with each other at that moment. The waiter was called Tomato Thomas. He was a friendly fat boy who worked as a waiter and studied at the university. They started to talk and they realized they had a lot of things in common. Tomato gave her a lift in his car to show Spinach the whole town. She decided that she wanted to live there and spend more time with Tomato.

The next day, Spinach went back to the corridor and opened the door. She had great news for her father that she had discovered a wonderful world where nobody bullied her.

Her father laughed at her and he didn't believe him to come with her, to live together in that wonderful place. He told her not to be silly. So then she said goodbye to her father, she left, and she didn't come back.

When Spinach wanted to go back to Weirdland, she couldn't find the key and she remembered that she had forgotten the key in the village. So she committed suicide, obviously.

Title: Agapito the Fat Boy

Author: Gonzalo Aparicio

One day a boy was walking in the street. The boy`s name was Agapito. Agapito was born in Madagascar but now he lives in Chicago. His weight is 100 KG and he is 5 years old. He is a good student, very fun and very small. He likes football and basketball. He lives with his parents and his five brothers in a little apartment. The apartment is 20 square meters.

One day Agapito was in the street and suddenly he heard a noise. There noise was people crying. He ran to his house but the noise was very loud. When Agapito arrived to his home he started to scream. His parents, Pepito and Fermina, asked him what happened Agapito said nothing.

That day Agapito didn`t eat anything because he was very scared. His parents were concerned because Agapito went 1 week without eating, sleeping or leaving his room. Agapito spent all day crying and screaming.

Some time later, Pepito and Fermina decided to take Agapito to the Doctor Ramiro Mendoza, a very expensive and very good Mexican psychologist, but the trouble is that he lived in New York and they had to travel there for Agapito to talk to Ramiro Mendoza. The trip took over 24 hours or so. During the trip Agapito did not stop screaming and Fermina and Pepito were very sad because he had to get out of his room violently.

Dr. Ramiro Mendoza took some physical tests. The doctor was impressed that week because Agapito had lost weight and was now 93 kg and was very thin. After the physical tests, Dr. Ramiro Mendoza began to perform psychological tests. The tests concluded 2 and a half days later and the news was not good because the doctor said that Agapito had a major psychological problem called the syndrome of weird noises.

The parents were very sad because Agapito was doing very badly and treatments would take a week to start since Dr. Ramiro Mendoza was too busy since he was a good and important psychologist. When it was time for him to start the treatment Agapito had to wear a straitjacket so it could not move and he also had to take a foreign object in his mouth so he could not scream and the doctor would not get frightened. The treatment consisted in opening Agapito's head and brain to see what he thought using a very expensive $3,000,000 dollar probe so as to see what was causing the strange sounds. This process is very painful and can lead to irreversible brain damage but there was no other solution to Agapito's problem.

After 50 days of treatment, the doctor Ramiro Mendoza told the parents the news that Agapito had died.

Title: Far Cry
Author: Rubén Hoyos Álvarez

His name is Jason Brody. He was born on December 30, 1987 in the United States. His hair color is black and his eyes are brown. He is 1.73 m tall and he weighs 61 kg. He is friendly, fun, nice and athletic. He has two brothers: Grant Brody, his older brother, and Riley Brody, his younger brother. He is very athletic and he learned fast to use a gun and other things. He loves to run, swim for long periods of time, go snowboarding, skydiving, parasailing and mountaineering.

He hit the Rook Islands during a trip when he was skydiving with his friends and his brothers and spent some vacation time there together. Far away, they saw some people, and when they were having fun, these people, that were pirates, captured them.

The pirates killed his older brother, Grant, and his other friends and his younger brother were captured. He managed to escape from the village that was full of pirates, but the pirates and their dogs followed him until he fell into the river.

When he awoke, a black man talked to him. He was called Dennis Rogers. He spoke of a tribe called "Rakyat" which is an Indian tribe that inhabits the Rook Islands. Their leader is Citra Montenegro, the sister of Vaas, the person that killed his brother Grant, and the second boss of the pirates. This tribe was the legend of Tatau is a religion of all the villagers of the Rook Islands. This religion says that becoming an elected that I get rid of the pirates, who have submitted them.

Jason had to learn the laws of Rakyat for killing a man with his own hands to have complete trust in this religion. Vaas was killed by Jason when he became a Rakyat soldier with his Tautau tatoo and rescued all his friends, but a Russian Aldean helped and said that the boss of the pirates was Hoy Volker and that this person killed his younger brother, Riley Brody.

Citra, the boss of the Rakyat, transformed Jason in a legendary Rakyat soldier and when he finished his training, he realized that his brother was alive and Hoyt had him kidnapped. Jason was killed and Hoyt went away to the airport to rescue his brother, and was rescued in the cave where all his friends had been hiding, but they were not there and Dr. Mason said that Citra had taken them to the temple. Riley and Jason went to the temple and saw their friends but Citra made them choose between staying with Citra or going home with their friends and Jason chose to leave with his friends. Citra committed suicide because she was unable to be with Jason.

Title: Black Man

Author: Laura Gutierrez

My name is Maria and I’m 19 years old. I was born in Italy but now I live in London with my father, my two brothers and my sister. My mum died in a car accident when I was 12 years old. I’m the oldest child in my family, and for my brothers I’m like a mum now. I’m studying biology at the University and my friends say that I’m strange girl because I like to study hard. I have straight brown hair and green eyes. I consider myself very optimistic, fun, friendly and nice, but my character is very strong.

Last year, I rented a house in a village for three days with 5 friends and this house was very strange. The house was in the middle of a village where there weren’t any people. The first night, we were dining when suddenly our friend Andrea heard a noise in the kitchen. We went to see what it was, but the noise stopped when we entered the kitchen. We were afraid and we decided to sleep together.

The next day, in the morning, we went for a walk when suddenly Andre vomited. We went back to the house and we thought that Andrea had eaten something out of a date. That night, all of us also vomited, and suddenly the noise started to sound again and we screamed because there were a lot of shadows in the kitchen and we ran out of house. We then realized that Andrea wasn’t in the group, so we returned to the house. There, we heard Andrea screaming and all my friends left again, except me.

I started to look for Andrea, but I couldn’t find her, I just heard her voice. I didn’t know what to do and I was getting more and more nervous. When I was almost shocked all the doors shut down and all the windows opened like it was a violent wind, but it wasn’t any wind at all. There was a silence and I felt somebody behind me, I couldn’t even talk. I turned my head and saw a man dressed in black. He tied my hands to a chair, and he told me that I had to go upstairs to get a packet that was under Andrea’s bed.

When I went upstairs, I found Andrea asleep on the bed. I tried to wake her but I couldn’t because she was sedated. I was very scared but I decided to take the packet and give it to this strange man. When I gave it to him, he gave me a key and told me to go before Andrea awoke.

I looked for a room in which to use that key and I did it fast because I had to disarm a bomb. The man went out of the house, but I ignored him and I ran to Andrea. I left the house with Andrea in my arms, but I never knew what it was that I had to disarm. Also I never knew anything about my other friends. They didn’t answer the phone and I couldn’t find them anywhere.

A few days later, I saw on the news that the house had burned by a big explosion and a strange man who was always dressed in black had died. My heart accelerated when I remembered that experience, but I felt calm because the man had died.

I always remember it as a bad experience but thanks to it, Andrea and I are now close friends forever.

Title: Mandy's Terrible Story

Author: Sandra Cascajares Gómez

INTRODUCTION:

My name is Mandy. I’m 16 years old and I was born on the 29th of February in 1997.

I’m a beautiful person. I have big green eyes. I’m blonde, short and thin. I’m 1,58 m tall and I weigh 48 kg, but I have got a big nose and I clenched my teeth when I played at basketball. I’m very optimistic, a good student, nice and fun, but I am not very friendly. I am unfriendly because I live in a town and I still haven´t met with anyone.

I live with my fathers, my sister, my brother and my pet, a crocodile. Yes, I have a very strange pet, but I love my family!

I’m pregnant, but my family don´t know it, and, I listen and see ghosts.

My hobbies include swimming. I hate going to the city because they are many noises, there are many people and they are many shops. I hate that.

STORY:

Hello, my name is Mandy, and I´m going to talk about something that happened three years ago. It happened when I was only 16 years old, but I remember everything that happened that year.

One day, in the morning, I got up at 7.00 am as I do everyday when I have school. I started to brush my teeth, put on my clothes, eat a good breakfast and take a shower. Afterwards, I went to my high school. In my Spanish class, I saw something or someone I didn´t know in the window. I saw a girl that wore a white long dress and she was very bad. I was very surprised and I decided to think that I saw this because it was a dream.

Later, when I finished the school, like everyday, I went with my crocodile and my two siblings, Elena and Marco, to go swimming. When I was swimming under the water, I saw this person again. I screamed for a long time and my siblings were very worried, and me too, of course. I went very fast to my house and I closed the door very fast, too. Afterwards, my siblings went to the house to ask me what happened, but I didn´t say anything. I put on my pajamas and I went to my bed to sleep. This day was very difficult for me.

The last day, I went to my bedroom and I saw myself in the mirror, and… I was very fat! And I weigh only 48 kg. I was very surprised again… I felt a terrible pain. So, I went to the hospital to ask what had happened to my body. And three days later the doctor assured me that I was pregnant…

It was impossible!

I didn't do anything, but I was very worried. For 5 days I didn't talk to hardly anyone. But one day, I went to the forest (I always go to the forest, because I hate the city because they are many noises and many people) with my crocodile and I saw again it, the ghost…

I was very worried and I didn't know what do… So, I fainted. Two hours later, more or less, she said that I had that woken up. "She" is a person? She is a ghost! The same ghost that I saw at the window in my high school!

She started to talk in English, and I understood all the words, of course, but I was very bad and I vomited on her dress, but she was not angry. She saw me all the time and she started to repeat all the things that she said before, but I didn´t listen at all. She said that she was very worried for her daughter. She had wanted her daughter for seven days, more or less, the same days that I felt very strange things. Shortly after she saw my gut and she asked me for the baby, I answered that I didn´t know why I had a baby. So, she started to get very angry and she put her hand on my gut, and she saw that… In my gut was her baby! My baby was a ghost? I was very surprised and nervous.

Suddenly, there was another ghost ... he was the father of her daughter! He said that she could not have a child because her daughter would not have a good future since it is a ghost. She began to cry, too. He knew he could see it, but it would not be the same.

Little by little he understood that everything was about the future of her daughter, nothing else mattered. And I was the one, but why? I did not know, all I knew is that I was just 16 years old and I had to care a child. And the next month, I had to tell my parents, because my gut was getting too big. I told them it was an accident and they were surprised, but nobody knows the real story, only you and me.

Today, three years later, the child is 2 years 3 months old, and I do not care how all these things happened because my daughter is the best thing in my life.