The Ghost of Mary-Anne
by Daniel Wright, age 11

There once was a beautiful girl called Mary-Anne who married a man named Keith. They had a young son called James and Mary-Anne was very happy for a few years. Then Keith started going out every night and getting drunk and he spent all his money on drink and spent most of his time fighting and arguing with Mary-Anne. Mary-Anne got so sick of it that she took herself and her son off to England and she left Keith to look after himself.

About two years later she got a letter from Keith asking her to come back because he had changed his life and he wanted his family back. Mary-Anne went to visit him and she was really pleased to see the nice apartment he was living in. Keith made her a lovely dinner and he even bought champagne for her. He said that he had given up drinking so he did not have any of the champagne. He put a drug into the champagne and he poisoned his wife.

When she was dead, he put her on the kitchen floor and cut her body up. He put all the pieces of her into plastic bags and hid them all in a fridge freezer in the garage. When the police came looking for Mary-Anne he told them that he had not seen her for years and pretended that he was broken hearted when no-one could find out were she had gone. James came to live with him but the little boy did not get on with his daddy. He kept on asking for his mammy and he always wanted to get into the garage.

James told Keith that his mammy's ghost appeared most nights and she kept saying "LOOK IN THE GARAGE, LOOK IN THE GARAGE". Keith got worried so he put a really big padlock and chained it on the garage door. That night exactly one year after he had murdered his wife, Keith was sitting up in the bed reading the paper when he heard a strange noise. He put his paper down and listened. It sounded like footsteps on thon the stairs and he could hear the sound of some dragging a chain.

The bedroom door suddenly flew open and a red mist filled the room. His blood froze when from the middle of the mist he heard Mary-Anne's voice saying "I'LL GET EVEN WITH YOU KEITH, I'LL BE BACK". He was shaking all over and the next day he put a really strong lock on his bedroom door. He did not get into bed the next night, he just sat on a chair staring at the door. About four o'clock in the morning he heard voices coming from James room and he was sure that one of them was Mary-Anne. At breakfast time next morning he dropped a bottle of milk when James suddenly turned around and said "what did you put in mammy's champagne...?"

Keith ran out of the house into the the big garden at the back. Behind every tree and bush he could see the bloody ghost of Mary-Anne and she had a horrible grin on her face and over and over she kept saying "I'LL GET EVEN WITH YOU". Keith thought that he was going mad when James came into the garden and said "Daddy I have phoned the police, mammy told me to".

The police arrived and Keith stood as still as a statue as he watched them break the lock on the garage door and as if it was in slow motion he saw them lift out the bags with the bits of Mary-Anne. Floating in the air above the freezer he could see the ghost of his wife. Her eyes were glowing red and the blood was dripping out of her mouth "I'VE GOT EVEN WITH YOU KEITH" she said. Her voice kept ringing in his ears as the policemen dragged him into the police car.