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Post by thecoffinflies on Jul 6, 2008 14:39:33 GMT
Hi, maybe this should go in another section but it's a book of short scary stories for kids that I'm trying to place.
Don't remember the author, but it was a man. Don't remember the title. Probably published in the 80s. Not an anthology as he'd written all of them.
The story I remember was of a small boy in the dock with the judge recounting his violent crimes. The boy keeps explaining that his invisible monster friend committed the murders and attacks, not him. Finally the judge decides he's guilty and prepares to pronounce sentence, at which the boy says "I don't think you'd better do that," and the wood of the witness stand crunches and breaks apart in front of him, as though invisible claws are tightening on it, as though something's preparing to pounce. The boy repeats, "I really don't think you'd better do that", and there the story ends.
Does anybody recognise that?
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