Jamie Bogie could hear his own feet running along the floor as well as the sound of his own heart beating faster and faster. It was 12:00 am and he took a short cut in a maze of tunnels to escape the beast that was hunting him. This red head child with brown eyes snuck into the kitchen to steal some chocolate chip cookies when he heard the beast utter the question; where’s my flesh?

Jamie remembered the horror stories of what happened to the other children a few days ago. As he kept running through the dark tunnels with a lantern in his hand he could hear the deep voice of the creature that was busy devouring children that had committed sin.

“Where’s my Flesh?” its voice echoed through out the tunnel.

Jamie looked back with the lantern and in the distance of the dark tunnels he saw the creature’s yellow eyes gleaming at him like a gargoyle. Jamie screamed his head off in horror and turned around to keep running through the tunnel. The little boy kept running as fast as he could, but each step he made seemed to move slower and slower. He could hear the deep breathing of the beast and the sound of a chain saw near his ears. He was very close to the exit of the vent. He closed his eyes and quickly pushed the huge metallic object with his little hands and lifted it up as he slipped underneath it.

“Where’s my flesh?” the beast shouted as it grabbed the boy’s ankles and bit off both feet and began eating them.

Jamie let out a scream, but nobody was coming to his rescue. He felt his legs go numb and the sound of the wood splitter filled his ears as a little blood spilled from the little boy’s mouth and his eyes became like glass. His body began to get dragged back under the metallic vent as the Flesh Beast began sucking his blood from his lifeless body and snapping the child’s bones between its razor sharp teeth. It let out a belch while continuing to devour until it was done and whispered, “where’s my flesh?

It was dawn and little Barry opened his eyes to see the sun peer in from the window. He was sent to the Insane Asylum Correctional Facility for boys and girls in the City of Cascade Falls for trying to kill his little brother for stealing a toy. His parent’s didn’t know what to do with him because of the reckless swearing and killing animals for their furs. Barry Master Bates rose out of bed and noticed that Jamie Bogie was not in bed. The black haired, twelve year old boy got out of bed and looked around. His other friend Steve Lickspee was still sleeping. Steve and Barry were best friends, but only met each other for a short time and became twits to make each other look bad in a never ending game of tag. Barry was into that kind of trouble making things and liked it like that. Steve was another trouble maker often involving picking fights with other kids and swearing. He got sent to the institute for picking on a fellow student in school for nothing and beat them up after school for no reason. This blonde hair, brown eyed bully found himself put in the institute by order of the school in Shellmont. Barry woke him up and they got ready for breakfast.

Amy Dogstyle opened her eyes and looked around to see it was morning and she already hated it. Amy hated the asylum and thought Ms. Knealson was a dog eat dog witch. It was her third week in the Insane Asylum and this blonde hair, intelligent, preteen heard awful stories from many of the students that the Flesh Beast ate the children and would repeatedly ask where’s my flesh?.

Amy was brought to the asylum for lying, stealing and fighting with other girls. Amy managed to make friends with Kellie, Steve, Barry and Jamie. Her girl friend Kellie Dong was brought here for making a hit list to kill other students. When asked why? She said it was for fun and that she wanted to know what it would be like to hunt another human being. Kellie was reported repeatedly for talking about how she liked to wear the color black and that it made her feel closer to her goal of blending with shadows. The psychologist of Shellmont school thought that if nothing was done she would become a serial killer.

Of course Kellie was just joking around and wasn’t serious. The hit list was a list of who to steal money from not to kill, but nobody saw it that way. The twelve year; old brown eyed, burnet became good friends with Amy. They were almost like sisters and shared the same room. Amy woke up, left to take a shower, got dressed and walked down stairs to meet her friends for breakfast.

Amy, Barry and Steve sat at the table with the other kids as they waited for breakfast. They were quiet and knew the reason why Jamie wasn’t at the table. All the other kids were busy talking about the day and what they were going to do for the next class. The younger kids got to play all day, but still learned arithmetic, reading and writing.

Then a student came to the table with a tray full of food. He was about twelve, slender with black hair and brown eyes. The boy looked like he was afraid of something and the small

“Is it alright if I sit with you?” he asked.

The other three students shrugged and Barry spoke up, “sure, we don’t care, we’re sick of this place.”

“Yea this place is for maggots,” replied Steve.

“What’s your name?” asked Barry.

“My name is Adam.”

“Where’s Jamie?” interrupted Kellie.

Barry looked at the twelve year old misfit girl with a distinguished look on his face. It seemed pretty obvious why he wasn’t at the table. The dumb kid had to go runaround the asylum looking for The Flesh Beast.

“What are you guys talking about?” asked Adam.

“We’re talking about your mom,” replied Barry.

Adam began turning red and looked a little angry, but said nothing. Barry just looked at him and then ignored him by talking to Steve. He already didn’t like the kid and wanted to beat his brains in, but then The Flesh Beast popped in his mind. The creature that ate naughty little children would enjoy chomping on this maggot mouthy kid.

“So is this thing for real or is just some kid dressed up in a suit?” he asked.

“I don’t know? For all I know it could be a polka a dot dinosaur singing koombia after it steals kids,” said Steve.

“I heard it uses your fingers as toothpicks after each meal,” replied Kellie as she laughed.

“It does,” agreed Adam.

“Yea, well how would you know?” asked Barry.

“Because I saw it,” demanded Adam as he watched Barry, Steve and Kellie’s eyes widened as they crept forward to hear more.

“I was eight years old and it ate my two best friends,” answered Adam.

Then all of a sudden something crept up behind Amy and grabbed her waist as she yelled, “where’s my flesh.”

Amy let out a scream and all the kids stopped eating and looked at them. The group felt embarrassed and Kellie continued to scream. Suddenly Barry slammed his little fourth grade fist on the table to shut her up.

“Would you shut your blood sucking mouth you dumb dog eat dog whore!” exclaimed Barry.

Then the student’s continued to eat and carry on their own conversations. Steve and Barry took a deep breath as they felt relief that they wouldn’t get stared down by the other students.

“Where’s Jamie?” asked Amy as she laughed in her high pitch squeaky voice. “Hey I could have choked on my food and died,” replied Kellie.

Barry set his head down on the table and then raised it, “I got to get out of this ship of fotie maggots.”

“He got eaten by the Flesh Beast,” replied Steve.

“So who’s going to be next?” laughed Kellie as she looked around and took an orange. She began unpeeling it while carefully putting pieces of it in her mouth and began sucking the juices. Adam got goose bumps from it because it was exactly how the Flesh Beast ate little Joey.

“Hopefully you,” replied Barry.

“Is there a problem?” said a voice.

“No Ms. Knealson everything is fine,” replied Steve. “Good, where’s Jamie?” she asked.

“We don’t know,” replied Steve. Ms. Knealson looked at Adam as her pupil turned yellow just slightly and then back to black. Adam’s eyebrows raised slightly as he remembered the breakfast morning after the death of his two friends.

“Are you ok Adam?” asked Ms. Knealson.

“Yes, fine, never better,” he replied.

“Good,” she answered and walked away.

“That lady is a dog dong,” replied Barry.

“Yea,” they all agreed except Adam who began to turn pale.

“Hey maggot boy,” said Barry. “What do you think of her?”

“She’s evil,” answered Adam.

“Well I think this Flesh Beast is a joke and I’m going to prove it. Let’s all gang up on who ever is behind this and beat them up. Well, are you in or are you out?” asked Barry.

“I’m in,” answered Adam.

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