Story idea one

Story Idea – Silent (thriller)

Characters
Mum and dad
Emma and Charlotte (15 and 17 years)
Sarah (long distant relative, 17 years)

Beginning

Sisters, Emma and Charlotte, live a seemingly perfect life at home with their mum and dad. One day, a new member of the family is joined as long distant relative Sarah is agreed to stay with them by their mum as she has nowhere else to go. However, something is different about Sarah then the other two – she is deaf. The two sisters continuously make nasty remarks to Sarah due to them knowing she is unable to hear them and this is also the case with the other kids at school.

Middle

Sarah has a secret. For 17 years she has pretending to be deaf so she hears everything around her due to her feeling insecure and lonely. This leads to Sarah finding out the family secret – every night whilst dad thinks Sarah is asleep and mum is at work he abuses both Emma and Charlotte in the basement. All family members believe Sarah won’t suspect a thing due to her not being able to hear their cries.
A few days later whilst Emma and Charlotte are talking, Sarah sits beside them both on the nearby table pretending to be eating dinner. Both sisters are discussing ways to kill their father to end their abusive nights and even joke around asking Sarah to help due to them thinking she cannot hear. Sarah is in complete shock and does not know how to cope with this, especially after she hears that they plan for the kill to take place that night.
Later on that evening, to calm her nerves Sarah quietly plays her guitar in her room which she learnt herself to play, unaware that Charlotte was on the other side of the door. Charlotte can perfectly hear the music and peaks through the door to see that it is Sarah playing it. Realisation suddenly hits her when she works out that Sarah is not actually deaf and they have openly discussed their plans of killing their father around her.

Ending

Sarah goes downstairs to the basement with all intentions of stopping the sisters from murdering their father. However, when she gets in the doorway and sees that the sisters plan has clearly backfired she changes her mind due to the utter torture the dad is inflicting on them both. She decides there and then she has to kill the father in order to save the two girls. With a fight on her hands, she manages this and the girls thank her. She says her first words ever to another person in 17 years of ‘you’re welcome.’

THE END.

Story Idea- 1

Story Idea 1 - Horror/Thriller

 

 Beginning

My Idea for a Horror/Thriller story. The beginning of the story opens with a very brief, abrupt phone call. “I knew we shouldn’t have done it. WHY, WHY, WHY ARE WE SO STUPID? Don’t touch the box. Don’t look at it. Get out of the house. Somewhere safe, somewhere she wouldn’t expect you to go. Ring me when you’re safe... Good luck.” The phone hangs up. There is a close up of a girls face. She’s ghostly white and her eyes are blood shocked and she looks forlorn. The box in which we can see behind her back becomes in focus as she walks out of the room. She walks out onto the landing and collapses to her knees putting her head in her hands. She appears agitated and frustrated. She picks up her head and tries to compose herself. She picks up her mobile phone and crams the contents of her fridge into her bag. As she heads for the door she hesitates, runs back into the kitchen and picks up a knife from the knife stand and exits the house. She takes one final look at the house before running down the street in the dark. The girls mobile begins to ring, she answers “Annie” there is no reply on the other end, “ANNIE! Are you there? I’m safe I’ve left the box and I’m in the park, where should I go, what do I do now?” there’s a silence on the other end of the phone for a few seconds. The person on the opposing end of the phone replies in a sinister tone, although it doesn’t appear to be Annie “...Good luck” the dialling tone sound and the girl drops the phone on the floor. Behind her, a short distance away we see a figure of a young girl dressed in a long white gown with her hair in front of her face.

 

Middle

A month has passed after the disappearance of Annie and Sophie. The police have no trace of the girls. The police and parents are doing a joint appeal on TV pleading for any information of the whereabouts and the safe return of the children. As Sophie’s mum dad and younger sister returns home from the appeal and enter the house, Sophie’s mum appears distressed and requests for some time alone. The father retires to the garden to try and preoccupy him and Sophie’s younger sister Sarah heads to her bedroom. As she walks upstairs something draws her into Sophie’s room. She hesitates as her mother specifically asked her not to go in, she wants everything left as Sophie left it for when she returns home. Sarah cannot resist the urge and enters Sophie’s room. She begins to look around at her things and notices the box at the side of the bed. She feels somewhat threatened by it but picks it up none the less. As she opens it she, she senses an overwhelming presence of fear. She closes the box and runs to her room. Sarah tries not to think about the box but every time she passes Sophie’s room feels a pull towards it. Sarah enters Sophie’s room again to try and resolve the mystery of the box. She hesitantly opens it a second time but this time notices something, it appears to be a small slip of paper. She unravels it and begins to recite what is written. “Thou shall not fear, for evil is always here”. Sarah slams the box shut and hides it under Sophie’s bed and runs down the stairs. She picks up her coat and mobile phone and tells her parents she’s going to her friends. Although, Sarah actually goes to Annie’s house. She knocks on the door but no one answers. She begins to look around for a spare key to the door and finds one under the plant pot. She enters the house and runs up to Annie’s bedroom to see if she could find anything that could link to the box. She finds a leaflet in Annie’s bedside table drawer with an address on and a phone number. Sarah gets out her mobile and phones the number on the leaflet. A woman answers “Can I help you?” “...yes, well... urm I’m hoping you can. My sister... So.” “Sophie?”  ”Who is this?” the women hang up the phone.

 

End

Sarah goes to the address on the slip of paper but as she walks down the street, she sees a figure in the way. They’re dressed in long white gown with long hair across their face. The street is dead and no one seems to be about, not in the houses, not in the shops everything is quiet. “Who are you?” The figure begins to approach Sarah and she runs. She runs none stop until she reaches the address on the paper. It’s a house, although it seems sinister and old fashioned. It seems significantly more prominent than the other houses on the street. Sarah runs to the door and repetitively bangs on it, pleading to be let in. The street is still quite although the ghostly figure is nowhere to be seen. A woman opens the door and tells Sarah to get in. Sarah runs in and the woman slams the door behind her and bolts it closed. She signals Sarah to follow her into the back room. She begins to explain to Sarah about the box and the impact it has. She explains she warned Annie and Sophie about it and told them not to tempt fate. She tells Sarah that they need to destroy the box. They have 48 hours before the girl gets them and Sarah explains she opened the box almost two days ago therefore they must act quickly. The women drives Sarah back to her house and Sarah runs in and collects the box. The box is finally destroyed and the girl’s spirit is returned to the box and cannot walk the streets again. Although, the box is not destroyed properly and years later a group of teens find it and open it.