Schoolbus Graveyard Novels & Stories

-For the moment you can't go to Jay's," he says. I half pouted. -But it's just that I... -Sam, understand, it's very dangerous. I wasn't really going to convince Brandon to go to Jay's so I won't keep insisting, when Jay leaves my house -if he does- then I will go with him. I don't want to be separated from Jay anymore ever, the only thing that keeps me going for now is him and the great love I feel. His love gives me strength to be brave and not crumble in the face of this. -Okay, I won't go," I lied, "but tell me, who is that person who can help us? -Look, do you remember that at school they used to say that it used to be a cemetery there? I nodded. -Yes, everyone knows that. It was terrif

Would she find her happily ever after somewhere in the bosom of Selene the moon goddess? My meditation was interrupted by the arrival of the black hearse. I watched pallbearers carry the casket from the hearse to the burial site, where the body of whoever this hole was bored for would rest. I walked deeper into the graveyard. Memories flooded my brain as I did so. I stopped at the innermost part of the graveyard, I noticed that most of the headstones were damaged and faded with the passage of time. I can tell that the graveyard was more than 150 years old by some of the legible inscriptions. There’s an inscription of a man who died in 1861. He probably lived in an era where there was no tele

So when I finally noticed the dark man in the cemetery, it was almost a relief to shift my attention to someone I knew nothing about, someone who made me nervous but captivated my thoughts even more than my grief. And I'm guilty all over again... ** I pull my mom's old Volvo in to an already packed school parking lot but manage to find a space all the way in the back. Aunt Kelly thought it was the safest of the no-longer-needed vehicles; it was also the one I was most used to driving. Every time I get in I feel closer to Mom and in a morbidly weird way, I kind of like that it still smells like her. I reach over to grab my backpack from the passenger seat, startling when I see Skylar standing

Amy bends to pick up the books and gazes up for a moment at the place where she is most out of her element—she didn’t have any element to begin with, she tells herself. A sign at the entrance of the school reads in gleaming paint and well-ordered lettering: VALLEY HIGH. A few months ago, some graduating students had gotten a ladder and had added the words, ‘of the Shadows of Death’ to the school sign, making it the Valley of the Shadows of Death High School. Amy thinks it ironic, and although the paint had already been cleaned off and the sign repainted—even though the students were never caught—you could still make out the washed-out painted scrawl should you ever decide to search for it on

We left the dead guard in the hallway and headed down toward the forbidden areas of the school. We sneaked down the steep, narrow steps until we reached the underground cemetery. The air down here was freezing, thick with the heavy stench of rot and death. We searched through the dark stone vaults until we found them. Six bodies were laid out in a hidden corner. My stomach churned as I looked at them. The first one was the headmaster's rotting body, his flesh turning gray. Next to him were two other instructor's bodies, I recognized them immediately as Randy and Baron.

Jarred rolled by, slowing along Bassler Road’s shoulder. He parked the Ram. And when he glanced over his shoulder and looked out the back, a shiver of unease rippled down his back at what he glimpsed through the trees. Bassler House. Old Bassler House, out in its unused cornfield, where it’d been rotting for decades. Clifton Heights’ own spook house, also a rumored party spot for the varsity football team. Jarred didn’t believe in haunted houses so its gothic, shadowed image, seen through night-shrouded trees didn’t bother him at all. It was just an old house. A more practical worry nagged him.

“I see Tessa gave you a little gift to always think of '' Cassandra chuckles. “Now back to the location '' Cassandra demanded one more. Kelly turned to the door but the threatening eyes of Tessa staring back at her was enough to make her scramble to another corner. “He is buried behind the school's famous graveyard. It was the only forest available that students were scared to venture into because of the ghost stories where we placed him there. His grave is the only spot with Jasmine flowers growing in the forest.” Cassandra wanted so much to punch her in the face but she was not going to dirty her hands. Not while Tessa and Alex were eagerly waiting to play with their new toy. “You took the

Kaylee’s POV The sky was a dull gray, as if it, too, mourned the girl who once chased sunsets on her motorbike and laughed like the world hadn’t betrayed her. Zara’s funeral was held in the small chapel near the cemetery—intimate, quiet, and heavy with unshed tears. Rows of students from school filled the pews. Some came out of guilt, some out of shock, and a few, like me, came because their hearts would never be the same again.

"Finley, you can't get on the bus! I just realized your test center is in Eastbrook! Both buses from our class are headed to Westhaven!" On the morning of the SAT, I had barely stepped onto the charter bus when someone yanked me back off. Lewis Sutton didn't hold back. The force sent me stumbling into a utility pole. Ignoring the pain, I hurried to the front of the buses and checked the destination signs. Both clearly read: Westhaven. I held out my hand to Lewis. "The buses are about to leave. Why are you only noticing this now? Let me see the test center schedule."

He hugged the young woman, tightly. "I'm not ready to go. I don't want to die yet. I'm afraid." Emily cried. Death tightened his hug, providing more warmth to Emily. "I'll be with you. Don't be afraid." Emily hugged Death, still shoving her face on his chest. Her casket is now being submerged on the excavated soil. It slowly sank into the pit hole until it disappears form the sight of everyone. Kendra took one final peak before waving goodbye to her friend. Right after the burial ceremony, everyone went back to their homes. Emily's parents stayed for a while. Several men covered the hole where Emily's casket submerged.