"Goodnight Mom," Karen Frolley said to her mother.
"Goodnight honey. Remeber your 10th birthday is tomorrow," Loren
Frolley said.
"Yeah I know. Did you think I would forget my own birthday??
Yeah...right," Karen said.
Then Karen walked up the stairs to her room. She put on her blue
nightgown and then she climbed into her bed to read for about 1-2 hours.
Today was a Friday so she would probably be reading until 1 or 2 A.M.
tomorrow morning. She always stayed up late on no school days. Then she
started reading her mystery book. She loved mysterys.
At around 1:00 A.M. Karen heard a noise outside. Must be the wind, she
thought to herself. Then she heard the front door open. She knew because
the front door always made a weird high pitched squeaking noise. She
panicked. Someone is in the house, she thought. Then she quickly turned
off the light and acted like she was sleeping. Then she heard the creak
of the stairs. She heard the door open. Then she silently prayed to God
for him to help her. She turned stiff. A cold muzzle of a gun was
jabbing into the back of her neck. "Wake up little girl," a deep gruff
voice said.
"Wh...wha...what do you wa...want??" Karen stuttered.
"You!! For ransom money. Now come with me." The voice demanded.
"Wh..who are yo..you??" she stuttered again very scared and afraid.
"Not that it is important to you I am Daniel Killingston. Follow me or
I'll kill you." Daniel demanded again.
She got out of bed and walked in front of him. Daniel put a piece of
cloth in her mouth. They walked through the front door and into a car.
She felt a sharp pain in the side of her arm. She saw a needle. She saw
an inviting blackness and sliped unconsious.
When Karen woke up her legs were tied to a rope and a man with a black
ski mask sat next to her. She was in a car.
"Nice to see that you are awake. Your parents have refused to pay the
ransom so we have decided you must be terminated. You will be hung over
the Golden Gate Bridge and tortured until you die." Daniel said driving
the car.
She was silent but was so scared she peed her pants.
When they got to the bridge then stopped and pulled over in the middle of the bridge.
"Get out." A man demanded.
They tied one end of the rope to a bar on the bridge. "Goodbye honey,"
Daniel said.
With that they shoved her over. She dropped and dropped until she felt
an enormous pain shoot through her body. She hung suspened between
150-200 feet above the San Francisco Bay.
After about 10 minutes of hanging there, screaming like she never
screamed before, she heard sirens in the distance. I'm saved, she
thought to herself. Then she dropped about 10 feet.
"The cops are here. Thanks to your parents you will be dead real soon
honey." Daniel said.
After about 10 seconds they cut the rope and she dropped all the way into the bay.
When she hit the bay she fell unconsious from the impact.
I month later
Loren was crying as the coffin was being lowered into a grave. She couldn't believe she died. She just couldn't believe it. Sitting next to
her was Karen!! She was not crying but almost did. She tried to hold
back the tears desperatly. She watched silently as her grandmother was
being lowered into her grave. She had loved her grandmother. She was
almost like a second Mom!!
Karen had amazingly survived the drop and was picked up about 10 minutes later by a fisherman. He had given her food and clothing since her nightgown had been torn to pieces from the
impact. Then the kind fisherman took her to a hospital where she was let out about 2 weeks later. The kidnappers had been caught when the police arrived and were sentenced to death for kidnapping at least 120 children, raping at least 23 women, and killing at least 87 people.
The End
This short story is totally fiction. This is not true and was made up by the author.
Created by Mr. Michael Pasque.
Copyright 1997 by Mr. Michael Pasque.
E-mail: pasque@kootenet.net
