The Lake

On the ground, reaching from the lake, at her feet was what looked like a tentacle with the suction cup things on the bottom. It reached up and curled around Anne’s leg and pulled her into the lake.

From inside the tent Dennis heard the scream and quickly ran out to see what was going on. He ran out just in time to see Anne being pulled in the lake by something.

"Anne," he called, on the verge of panicking, he ran to the lake.

Dennis stood on the edge of the lake, not knowing what to do. He could see the ripples from where Anne had just gone under, and from that spot came another tentacle reaching out and grabbing hold of Dennis’s waist. He was able to scream once and the tentacle crushed him and pulled him under the waters surface.

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At the first sign of light the old man headed up the mountain to the lake. When he reached the top and saw only the jeep and a couple of tents, but no kids he wasn’t surprised. He walked around, rummaged through their things to see if he could find anything of value.

"Kids should have listened. They didn’t take care," he said to himself smugly, disappointed that he didn’t make any real good leftover finds.