The Ghost Tree Maggie was a normal little girl in her own normal little house with her normal little friends. One day she and her friends got invited to a party. The party was at the old Genkinburry house, everyone said that house was haunted and Maggie believed that because her twin, Maddie went in there one day… but nothing came out… not even dust. It was a heartbreaking mystery until they found her, well her body. It was sad for everyone. She left the party feeling odd. She had to walk through the woods to get home, but it seemed like the woods were going for miles on. Maggie had the instinct for some reason to lay against a old hickory tree near a small stream. She laid against the tree for a few hours before climbing, higher and higher. She kept climbing until there was no more tree to climb. She fell asleep up there but, then she woke up. She was not in the tree but in the hospital bed. The doctor said “Oh, your awake. I was afraid you had died.” with all her energy Maggie answered “What happened?” “Oh darling, you fell out of a tree, it was a long fall. How did you even get up there so high?” “I climbed.. I think..” She fell senseless again, the doctor rush out to tell her parents of her recovery while she was wondering Why did I climb that tree, and how or why did I fall out? She became conscious a few hours later and her parents were there. “Oh, Maggie we were so worried!” said her mother joyfully. “How did I fall, mother.. How did I fall?” Maggie wanted that question answered. “Oh, honey you know you can’t climb. You just fell out of bed the wrong way.” “Mother I did climb though!” They stopped talking. “I kept climbing, as if I were born to. Branch by Branch.” Her parents looked back and forth between each other and Maggie. “Honey, you were asleep in bed yesterday, in fact all day.” said her mother with worry in her eyes. “What about the party?” Maggie asked. “Oh, your lucky that you didn’t go. A tree, A large tree, fell on the house. It crushed everyone.” The end
