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Miss Jackson Short Story

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Once upon a time, in a large town best known for their winter solstice festivals and the presence of a young woman, her name was Miss Jackson, no actual first name or middle, she was a wildly famous singer, not known by many, but just enough people knew of her that she had to stay away from this town quite often, and since the town’s population was small now she had decided to move back just for the winter festival, but since she was the only attraction at their festivals she didn 't quite have a large choice. Within a week of her moving back, children started disappearing, and a rumor was started among the elderly citizens that Miss Jackson had something to do with it, but the younger citizens knew better. The teenagers, around Miss Jackson …show more content…

Without any hesitation everyone followed Miss Jackson, finally they all reached the backyard where they seen a very unsettling sight, many children laying in an empty in-ground pool, all bound to one another with gags in their mouths. With no ladder in sight one by one the teenagers all jumped into the pool to untie the children from each other and to hug their cousins, neighbors, sisters and brothers, as they took the gags from the children 's mouths screams filled the cement tomb as they all cried "No!" suddenly Miss Jackson 's kind smile was gone and replaced with a lunatics smirk. Miss Jackson watched and listened as the teenagers and children cried and begged for their lives, after nearly an hour of tears falling from the children 's cheeks and screams from the teenagers, she chuckled and waved for the couple and their son to drive the trucks forward that had been hidden in the trees to back up to the pool and release the loads of sand, wet cement and gravel into the youth filled pit as she yet again smiled a kind and innocent smile and sang the words from one of her most known songs "There 's not always a happy ending and be careful who you trust while you 're young." the pool was filled within minutes and the screams of terror were finally muted once and

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