2023 HMS Scary Story Contest Winners

By: Ashley Donis

There was a teenage girl named Rachel and it was just her and her dad, because her mom died very young . On a late Friday night, her father rushes her to the hospital. He told the doctors she didn’t come home by curfew, and she wasn’t answering her phone, so he went out to look for her. He had found Rachel’s car crashed into a ditch on the side of the road, and she was unconscious. 

The doctors took Rachel to start running some tests. Not long after the doctors came out and gave Rachel’s dad an update. The doctors told him that she’s been kind of in and out of it, waking up, but that she just had a bad concussion and some bruises. They waited for her to fully wake up. 

About an hour later, Rachel woke up and she was extremely confused. Her father is telling her, “ It’s ok, you crashed your car, and you were in a ditch but you’re going to be fine.” Then he starts asking her, Rachel, what happened? And she couldn’t answer. She had no memory of Friday night when she crashed. 

The doctors told him that there was no way to know, and that time would tell whether or not her memories come back. Rachel got released from the hospital and they went back home. Later that night, Rachel decided to turn on the TV, and she was scrolling through channels. When the local news pops up and says a girl named Lucy Wickman, who goes to the same high school as Rachel, has been missing since Friday night… 

Apparently, she was at the football game that Rachel attended, and she didn’t come home. Rachel doesn't know Lucy personally, but she has seen her a few times. Rachel’s dad walked into the room, see’s the TV and he turned it off. The doctors told Rachel not to watch TV. Rachel took some pain meds and lay in bed. Before she fell asleep, she heard a girl’s voice in her room. She opened her eyes to see Lucy at the foot of her bed. Lucy said, “Tell them where I am, tell them where to find me.” Rachel reached over to turn on the light. When she turned the light on Lucy was gone. For the next two nights, the same thing happened. The missing girl visited Rachel in her head. Rachel didn’t tell a single person because she felt like she was going crazy. But then on the third night, Lucy said this, “ I’m at the shed, he’s moving me.” 

With no hope she was going to find anything, Rachel snuck out the back door. She went to the old abandoned shed, about 100 yards away from her house. She heard someone by the shed, she peeked behind a tree, and saw her dad. So she started walking to him, then stopped. Lucy’s body was behind her father. Before she could run away, her father stopped her. He said, “ Rachel, you did this, the night I found you, she was in your backseat, stabbed to death with a knife. Help me clean up your mess.” 

Did she kill her? Is he messing with her head? Is Rachel living with a murderer? Who would go down for it if they get caught? Why is she seeing Lucy in her sleep? Is her mind trying to convince her that she’s innocent? To be continued...

By: Julie Konyeaso

There was a little girl who was raised to lie. A toxic household caused her to do so. Her own mother forced her to lie, just to hide the indecency she had been keeping from her husband. Lying is the only thing she was good at, to the point it became an everyday habit she repeated to do so. As the lies continued, the girl's reality began to shrink. She no longer knew who she truly was or what she really believed. The lies had become her identity, and she was trapped in a never-ending cycle of deception.The real problem began when she got into school, she felt the need to impress everyone at her school and get the attention her mother never gave her. She even started rumors about popular girls in her school so she could bring them down and have the spotlight on her again. She thought she could get away with it, until she heard her name being called to the office.

"Maylynn Greenstone, please come to the office immediately."

All of her classmates stare at her, and whisper to one another. She slowly gets up from her chair and proceeds to exit the classroom. Even after she left the classroom she still felt eyes on her, as if someone was watching her every move, as if someone was trying to find out who she was, the real her. She walks into the office, again everyone staring her down, as if she was a criminal. Once she steps into the principal's office, they begin to interrogate her. 

Her principal continues bombarding her with questions, she can't even concentrate or answer any questions. It started with her not being able to control her breathing, her ears ringing, and ended with her vision going black…

"She's awake, she's fine. Your mom is here to pick you up.” The principal says, staring her down. 

Maylynn goes to exit the door, but the principal says.

"Isn't it quite weird that you had a panic attack, right when I started asking questions."

"Come on, it's time to go." Maylynn's mother says a little aggressively.

"Saved by the bell..once again." The Principal shares. 

Years pass, Maylynn continues to lie her way through life,her mother asks her to lie for her just one more time. Marylynn thinks about the years she's been lying, the pressure of keeping her mothers secrets safe, not being able to tell anyone, the feeling finally made her..snap. Marylynn starts screaming at the top of her lungs and tries to end her mother. She chases her mother up the stairs and her mother locks herself in the bathroom and calls the police. As the police arrive she tries lying to them but they put handcuffs on her. Once she’s in the station. The police think that she’s crazy and put her into an asylum. Now for the rest of her life she has to live with lies.

What a Good Little Liar…