The Flip Book

                                  As a kid, I loved making flip books. They were all I did in art class, whenever I had the chance. I worked really hard on one particular flip book that was around 50 pages long, I guess. It had a simple stick figure that would walk onto the page, wave at me, and just simply walk off. I looked at it dozens of times on the day that I made it, but eventually I got bored. I mean, once it was finished, t just wasn’t something that can keep someone entertained for long. I tossed it under my bed and never gave it a second thought.
A few months later, I was cleaning up my room and swept the stack of paper out from under the corner of my bed. I couldn’t quite remember what it was. I flipped through it once more, as I was flipping, I noticed that the pages hadn’t worn out at all. I flipped through again. The little stick man walked onto the page, but this time he didn’t walk off (Urban legends Online, 2012, p. n.d). Instead, a second stick man walked on with something in his hand.
 He walked up to the first stick man and whacked the poor fellow on the head (Urban legends Online, 2012, p. n.d) The first stick man fell and the second stick man swung to hit the first stick man again. And again. And again. Blood ran from the first stick man’s jagged body. It looked like nothing more than a smeared pencil stain. The killer stick man proceeded to bend down and tear apart the first stick man’s body, limb by thin limb. He bent each line into letters and set them up upon the page to form a single word (Urban legends Online, 2012, p. n.d). Then grabbed the base of his own round head and tore it off, followed by his legs, and then one of his own arms. His zig-zagged body parts formed a second word. What I read made me burn the book. YOU’RE NEXT!!

Everyone has played with the flipbook at least once in their lifetime where the draw a different cartoon on each page and flip back with your fingers to make a little movie. But this makes us hate the flipbook. Though not that scary, it makes us never want to come in contact with this being again, even if it is just a drawing. 

Bride-N-Seek

A bride and a groom were both very young, around 16, but decided to get married anyway, as was the way in those days. It was a huge, elaborate wedding and the reception was held at an old mansion, an heirloom of the family, of sorts (Urban legends online, 2012, p. n.d). After most people had left and all were drunk of wedding champagne, the bride whined she was getting bored. When asked what she'd like to do, she grinned and said she always loved a good game of hide-and-seek. Though reluctant to play such a childish game, all agreed and the groom was "it.”

It took only about 30 minutes for all to be found... all but the bride, that is. Everyone began searching the entire house, but no one found her. The groom, thinking maybe she had second out a missing persons report but no luck. Eventually he moved on with his life. thoughts about the marriage, grew angry and sent everyone home. After two or three days, he put

After the girl's father died, the mansion was being cleaned, the family taking what they would before the auction came around. The mother of the long-gone bride was up in the storage attic, cleaning out the old clothes and junk when she saw an old trunk with a lock on it. After breaking the lock, she peered inside... and began to scream. (Urban legends online, 2012, p. n.d). All ran upstairs to see what was happening. Inside the trunk was the bride, dead after the lid fell on her head and crushed part of her skull... though she was still grinning at her little game of hide-and-seek.

This tale makes us shiver because it invokes our fear of being buried alive and dying inch by inch in an enclosed, dark space. In the tale, the horror is heightened by the innocence of the victim and the happiness of the day being transformed into unspeakable tragedy. The bright promise of what should have marked the beginning of the happiest period in her life dies a long lonely death along with the bride in a child’s game gone horribly wrong.