"When the monsters tore through the wall, there he stood. 

 Cardboard armor. 

 Waiting to battle them all."<...

I woke up this morning with a monster on my head!

It was crazy and wild! It was mean and red!

It gave me such an awful scare,

til I realized it was just my ha...

Miriam’s monsters live under her bed, 
Growly and Angry and Bitey and Fred, 
Although they look horrid, they’re really quite sweet...

I looked under my bed for the monster

I looked in the closet too

In the darkness, a claw poked my shoulder

"Psst! You didn't look behind you.."

&n...

Monsters in my closet,

Monsters under my bed,

Monsters come to deposit

Their fears into my head.

 

Monsters in the shadows

IN THE MONSTER WORLD:

For generations, this family of monsters has been the most successful in frightening children.  Their family reputation means everything to them.  The two eldes...

There lies a strange little house on a strange little hill, and this strange little hill is surrounded by other hills that make up the town of Cheerless. This house, the townspeople of Che...

Day 1 

 

The war has began. Three of my friends have been destroyed. I escaped by hiding behind a tree and pretending to be a throw pillow. I a...

Hi everyone, I'm Stan. Well, this is a little embarassing but my therapist said that openly talking about it would help so here I am. Um, yeah. So, uh, I guess it started when I was about 5 or 6...

One day a mysterious, wealthy man(gyllenmaya’s Faceless Man) comes to a small, quaint, impoverished town to purchase the old dilapidated cathedral/factory/building which has been boarded u...

When I was little, maybe six or seven, I had a wild imagination. Sometimes, when the wind would be howling, I used to believe that was ghosts outside my house trying to get in. And in my bedroom...

Static. Then a break, a sound, a blip. A voice.

"And we're on."

"We're recording?"

"Broadcasting. We're broadcasting. Get to it, while the signal's good."

...

The alarm rang last night, got everyone out of bed and ready in three minutes. 

Amazing what we can get done when our city is under siege by Kids.

i stuffed him in my closet,

pushed him 'neath my bed,

would creep around the dark of night,

to fill his heart with dread.

i giggled at his nightma...

STOP IT!!  ENOUGH!!  I can't take your crying anymore!!  THEY'RE GONE!!  All the adults are gone!! Don't you get it??  Us kids are all that's left.  We have to find...

His name was Ryan. The other kids all looked up to him, even though he stayed away from everyone. Mostly.

 

He was the one that found us, after Buddy and I had taken...

Day IIII

I know I shouldn't tell. But I'm scared.

I know I shouldn't be. But she said...

she said to get rid of the little. and the ...

"There's a monster under the bed."

"I thought we were over this? No, there isn't. Go back to sleep."

"I saw it."

"It was just some clothes or toys you didn't ...

So, I had a pretty wild dream last night, and it just struck me now that it would fit well with this collaboration. So, here's the gist of my dream put into lyrical form (and slightly re-conceived ...

Mama:  “What did I tell you about going out in the middle of the day?  You know the rules… you are only allowed out late at night!  What do you have to say for yourse...

He pulled the covers over his head and hid in plain sight.

The bogeyman couldn't find him that night.

The war started, as so many things do, with a bedtime story. One that kept growing and growing, becoming more real with each re-telling, until one day it was in all the kids' dreams.

      The first time I saw them was when my parents, along with the whole town, attended the grand opening. It was the first themed restaurant to open in our town. It wa...

Millie came to Monster World on October 31st.  Her mom and dad were excited to have a baby born on their favorite date of the year, Halloween.  It was only...

She hums soft melodies of melloncholia for her friends flew away.

"I caught lightning bugs, Mother," little Margo wailed wih pout. "But they flew away as I was sleeping."

Prologue

The desert ground was cracked and broken. Greenhorn, turned toward Callum, his feet breaking the ground, dust escaping into the hot, dry air.

Call...

"Who's there?" Joey's voice quavered a little, and he felt embarrassed, even though he was alone.

He'd accidentally become separated from the rest of his patrol...

I recall that someone had put forward the idea of a monster coming over to the kids side. I like this. A lone monster is out wandering, she seems harmless in her behavior but she's huge and scar...

They flew away with Jimmy's dad last night.

The little dragons that come as the sun goes down. They shine like the road when it rains. Jimmy's dad didn't see them. He kept swatting at th...

Long time watcher/listener/reader, first time recorder. I wrote a story! It's called Roar.

 

13:            &n...

As the stray spacecraft carrying large canisters of radioactive ooze passed by overhead, one rather thoughtless alien opened a back window by mistake, causing one of the canisters to fall out and s...

The Monster felt so protective about little John that he slept under his bed every night

 

Illustration please? :)

He knew the rules.  Chopper wasn't allowed to bite anything off unless it stuck out from under the covers and past the end of the matress. Benjamin was always very careful.

Every night I heard them in there. I couldn't understand them at first, just a low murmuring, then a mumbling, then whispers I could understand. I took everything out of my closet at one point. ...

"But I feel silly with this moustache," said the Monster. "All the other children will laugh at me".

"That's ok," said Jimmy. "See? I have one too. That way, you won't stand out so m...