Preview to The Barn

A short-story in the works.


The barn was a large farming barn that had been abandoned about twenty years ago when the owners house had burned to the ground and destroyed their crops. The barn was located at the far end of a large field, a field that nobody went to but was well known. It was in the small town of Acker where the tragedy occurred. The town held no more than three hundred people and wasn’t greatly acknowledged by many of the neighboring cities; the largest part of the town were the acres and acres of farmland and fields, and the many kids that lived in the town enjoyed playing in the fields and chasing the wild rabbits.
It was on October 29th, the day before Halloween, when three little boys took young Eliza Cohen to the barn. Tommy Caldwell was the ringleader of his group of friends, and was always a very feisty boy who tried his hardest to get what he wanted. With his wit and the right words he had placed his grand scheme inside of his friends minds, and they had agreed to accompany him and help him during this night. His two friends were Henry Robinson and Jerry Cohen, Eliza’s elder brother.