Short Story for Children written by: Mariana Vanessa Saldaña Armas (9 years old) (Peru).
There was a family that moved to a city called Grusevill which had a myth of terror, but they didn´t know about it.
The legend said that if a girl went alone to the forest on halloween night and saw her reflection in the town´s lake, a devil would appear to steal her soul, because it was his nourishment.
One day, Linda, the older daughter of the family went for a walk alone to the lake, because she did not want anything bad to happen to her family.
When she saw her reflection in the lake, her soul was taken and lost consciousness.
The next morning, Linda woke up in her bed, but everything seemed different, it had turned terrifying, her parents and siblings weren´t there, it was raining ash outside, and it was cloudy.
It looked like she was alone in the town. Suddenly, dark shadows went around her and scared her. Linda ran away to the church far from the danger.
When she arrived at the church, the bell sounded and everything got dark, but she felt safe inside, walked until a bench and lied down praying, watching the image of Jesus in the cross, and then fell asleep completely.
When she woke up, was at the bank of the lake again. Went back home, when she arrived saw all her family, hugged them happily and promised not to separate from them again.
THE END
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