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Back when my monsters/kids were younger and being little jerks to one another, I would scare them into submission with made up monsters called ” The vent Monsters.”
I would yell out. “Knock it off you guys, or the monsters in the vents are going to eat you!” “Que in evil parent music here.” I would continue on, just to drive my point home. “They start with your feet and make their way up. They save your head for last, so they can still hear you scream.”
Not the most inventive, but it worked, “At least for a little while.”
Either way- They were being little monsters to each other once more, and I wished so badly that The Vent monster was still a useful tactic. It’s not. I said it out loud in my frustration, to which my youngest “Avery.” asked about how and where the vent monster came to be. She wondered if there was some truth behind it if I had heard it somewhere. She is eleven and still somewhat naive.
Long story short – She asked me to write her a story based on Monster who now serves as a fond memory of our past.
I wrote, she read and then approved, so we thought we would share it with anyone else out there who might have monsters of their own, who need to be careful of the vent monsters.
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Little Stevie and his big brother Micheal lost their parents in an accident. Unwanted by the only family they have left; an uncle and his wife, they are sent to live in a foster home where they learn the legend of the Vent monster. It’s a creepy tale about a monster who lives beneath the floorboards, slithering throughout the rooms, vent by vent, who feeds off the forgotten children.
Laughing it off as nothing more than a scare tactic used by the other foster kids, they went about their days having no idea just how much of that story was the truth.
They soon found out.
