Andrew Davis
Ms. Smith
Enriched Language Arts 10/ Period 3
September 28, 2008
“What Lie Beneath the Sealed Crevice”
Benny’s chest heaved as he sprinted along the dark trails through the Gorge Park. He raced across the bridge in front of King’s Cave and darted off the path, taking refuge in Prince’s Cave. Benny sat there, listening to his heartbeat ringing in his ears. All was silent outside. Benny took this temporary reprieve to look back on the events that had led him to this horrible point.
It had all been Frankie’s fault! he had convinced them that there was treasure behind that old sealed crevice by Mary Cambell Cave. So they had waited, Frankie, Benny, Joe, and George, until Halloween, when nobody would be in the Gorge, to go with hammers and crowbars to open the fissure that had been long ago sealed up with bricks. They toiled for hours until finally, during the last rays of twilight, they dislodged the central brick. Using crowbars to pry it loose the great stone block had fallen out onto the ground, leaving a gaping black hole in the crevice. Frankie had stuck his head through the hole, only to be pulled through by something within. They had stood there stunned as Frankie’s screams of terror were ended by an abrupt crunch.
As they ran for their lives through the deepening gloom, they could hear the thing inside the crevice break loose from its prison. The three remaining boys had tried to escape the park, but it had been waiting for them beneath the old pavilion, where there it got George. Then it chased Benny and Joe back into the park until Joe stumbled and fell at the Tangled Trees, leaving only Benny.
Suddenly there was a rustling from outside Prince’s Cave. It had come for Benny. He rushed out from Prince’s Cave and ran for the river. With it bearing down upon him Benny leapt into the frothing waters. Benny drowned in the icy river, his body found a few days later. The other boys were never seen again.
Ms. Smith
Enriched Language Arts 10/ Period 3
September 28, 2008
“What Lie Beneath the Sealed Crevice”
Benny’s chest heaved as he sprinted along the dark trails through the Gorge Park. He raced across the bridge in front of King’s Cave and darted off the path, taking refuge in Prince’s Cave. Benny sat there, listening to his heartbeat ringing in his ears. All was silent outside. Benny took this temporary reprieve to look back on the events that had led him to this horrible point.
It had all been Frankie’s fault! he had convinced them that there was treasure behind that old sealed crevice by Mary Cambell Cave. So they had waited, Frankie, Benny, Joe, and George, until Halloween, when nobody would be in the Gorge, to go with hammers and crowbars to open the fissure that had been long ago sealed up with bricks. They toiled for hours until finally, during the last rays of twilight, they dislodged the central brick. Using crowbars to pry it loose the great stone block had fallen out onto the ground, leaving a gaping black hole in the crevice. Frankie had stuck his head through the hole, only to be pulled through by something within. They had stood there stunned as Frankie’s screams of terror were ended by an abrupt crunch.
As they ran for their lives through the deepening gloom, they could hear the thing inside the crevice break loose from its prison. The three remaining boys had tried to escape the park, but it had been waiting for them beneath the old pavilion, where there it got George. Then it chased Benny and Joe back into the park until Joe stumbled and fell at the Tangled Trees, leaving only Benny.
Suddenly there was a rustling from outside Prince’s Cave. It had come for Benny. He rushed out from Prince’s Cave and ran for the river. With it bearing down upon him Benny leapt into the frothing waters. Benny drowned in the icy river, his body found a few days later. The other boys were never seen again.
