Forest Spooks

By Sharon Forester

The village of Spooksville, which resides outside a dark mysterious forest is said to present spooks to anyone who got near it. Upon risk of losing their home, misfit siblings Koko and Sybil enter the spooky forest to investigate and disprove the rumors. Forest Spooks is a short story from the short story collection book "When Life Strikes Midnight." Check out the book so you can read the rest of my stories in that collection!

 

In more detail: Sybil and Koko are misfit siblings fathered by a wise homeless man in Spooksville, a village whose population is deathly afraid of a dark forest located in The Forbidden Zone due to its rumors of supernatural activity. Tired of their mischievous presence disrupting their daily routines, the villagers band together with the intent to take the boys away from their home with Phil and live out the rest of their teenage years in an orphanage. However, a deal is struck: if the boys can disprove the forest spooks, they can keep their home and live in peace with their non-legal guardian.

 

About The Author

I spend most of my time reading, writing, or creating art. When I am not doing any of those things, I am listening to music or obsessively binge-watching animated shows and movies. I always have my head in the clouds, daydreaming of all sorts of ridiculously divine things that transport me away from the real world, and I love moving through life that way. I live happily somewhere on planet Earth.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Sharon Forester
• Release date: Jul 13, 2023
• ISBN: 9798223934790

Book preview

Spooksville was a small village that separated itself from the rest of the world. It was a nice small place where a suitable amount of humans lived happily. Although most of the world lived with its modern technology beyond the village, Spooksville maintained a lifestyle without the use of any electronic devices. The villagers dressed more like cavemen and cavewomen than anything else. Though patterns were similar, they were still unique in their own way. Some villagers used footwear and others did not. They also did not use any transportation to get to places; they walked. This was the purity of the village, which cast them far away from the biosphere, nothing surrounded this community.

Except for the Forest.

The Forest was the blackness beyond the village. People considered anything beyond the village, including the Forest, to be known as the Forbidden Zone, full of nothing but spooks. Was there such a thing? All the villagers of Spooksville certainly thought so. There was one person throughout the entire village that believed the stories of the spooks were nothing but nonsense invented by a bored villager that randomly decided to spread rumors about such things, so he or she could sit back and watch people's reactions. That nonbeliever was Sybil.

Sybil lived in a nice, rustic small home with his twin brother Koko. They were not too wealthy, but they were able to manage survival with food, shelter, clothes and footwear. His brother Koko was one of the believers of the spooks. (He also wasn’t the brightest person around.) Sybil was much tougher and smarter, but he was strict on his belief about the spooks in the Forest. He wished he could undo that belief from his brother, but he has learned how to deal with his opinion on it. What he could barely handle were the constant complaints and the fear of the villagers about spooks that are yet proven to be real. Every single day someone had something new to say about the Forest and how it attacked someone important. One-half of the village is always saying that they figured