Scary Story
100 Worder The Hobo
James Leeder
Ant
Juice – chilled
Whack! Whack!
The
shoe heel missed as his target sped away from the picture frame.
Whack!
‘Got
it,’ he said.
‘Oh,
there’s a horrible mark now!’ she said, peering in from the doorway.
He
pulled out a tissue and wiped at the crushed remains. ‘I’ll get rid of it in
the morning,’ he sighed. ‘Come on, we need to hurry now. No more huge spider.’
‘It
looked much bigger on the floor.’ She said, defensively.
The
Hobo spider had clung on desperately, now something was pushing into her cosy,
dark shoe. She raised her poison fangs and struck.
About the Author
James Leeder grew up in the north east of England but now
lives in London. After many years of work he is now spending more time on
writing fiction, and trying to learn the piano.
Thank you James - now I shan't sleep tonight. My grandsons found a nest of false widow spiders in the garden shed last month!
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