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Welcome to micro Terrors, scary stories
for kids where it's always the spooky season,
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full of chills, thrills and spine
tingling spooks. Micro Terrors are family
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friendly frights for those ages eight and
up, and while our stories are for
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younger years, we are still talking
about things that go bump in the night,
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and some children may not be able
to handle what others can. Parental
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consent is recommended now for tonights micro
terror. The Cricket by Scott Donnelly.
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In the middle of the woods,
with warm sunbeams shining down through the gaps
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in the canopy, wait no deep
in the woods where the sun doesn't dare
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invade, a cricket sat perched upon
a mossy rock in the coldness of the
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woods that surrounded it. The cricket
knew he had committed a crime against nature
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and chirped nervously without no scratch that
the cricket didn't care one bit that he
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committed the ultimate crime against nature.
He scoffed at nature. Nature didn't control
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him. He was a rebel cricket, a rebel cricket with no one to
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tell him what he could do and
could not do if he wanted to commit
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atrocities. Then he would commit atrocities. The cricket looked around as he chirped.
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His legs rubbed together arrogantly. He
made the only sound for miles,
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and that's the way he liked it. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the
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leaves rustled nearby. The cricket went
silent. He gulked at the location of
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the disturbance. Leaves and bushes moved, eventually giving way to a bushy groundhog.
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Wait, now it was a wolverine
with sharp teeth and anger in his
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eyes that emerged from the brush.
He'd heard the rumors around the woods.
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Some rebel cricket had committed crimes and
atrocities against nature, and that cricket had
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escaped to these shadowy parts of the
forest, the forbidden forest. The wolverine
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had heard the chirps. They're what
led him to this location. The wolverine
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lowered himself into a stealthy crawl and
kept his eye peeled. That cricket could
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be anywhere. The wolverine thought,
I'll be the hero of the woods if
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I can put a stop to his
little reign of terror. As the wolverine
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slunk through the tall grass and weeds, scanning the forest floor for any sign
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of the cricket. He suddenly stopped. Something wasn't right, something felt wrong.
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It felt like he was being watched
from above. No wait, he
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was being watched from everywhere. Out
of thin air, an army of grasshoppers,
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no praying mantises, materialized in a
circle around him, shedding away unprecedented
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invisibility cloaks. They stood on their
back legs, their arms creeping outward,
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each with a beau staff and their
sticky grips. One of the manises took
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large steps towards the wolverine. Who
do you think you are to cross into
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the territory of the mantis, it
said. The wolverine rose up from its
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stealth crawl and looked around. He
was trapped by the beau staff wielding army
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of mantises. He gulped, harding
his fate might have already been sealed.
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I was searching for a cricket,
the wolverine said, I didn't mean to
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trespass. The mantises all looked at
each other, and then the lead mantis
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said, there are no crickets here. There he is. The wolverine replied,
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I've tracked him. To this location. I've heard his chirps. You
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were all in the presence of a
cricket, a rebel cricket guilty of the
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most heinous natural crimes you could imagine. The mantises all laughed. You think
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a cricket on that level of corruption
could sneak by our security lasers, the
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lead mantis said. The wolverine rose
to its hind legs and flashed its teeth
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at the mantises. It wait,
no, the wolverine rose up and pulled
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a hidden weapon from underneath a fold
in spur. It was a musket.
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The wolverine smirked. If I could, then, how could a cricket not.
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The army of mantises were all on
guard now. They held their bowstaffs,
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all ready for a fight. The
lead mantis held his ground, swirling
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his tongue around inside of his mouth. With his beady black eyes, he
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studied the wolverine. If you're here
for the cricket, he said, then
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why pull that impressive musket on us? Because you're not listening to me.
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I needed to show you. Wait, wait, the wolverine said, because
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you're in my way. I am
on a secret mission and not even an
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army of invisible grasshoppers can stop me. That cricket must be stopped at all
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costs. We're not grasshoppers, the
lead mantis said, clearly did by such
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a common understandable mistake. We're mantis
is praying mantises, and you had better
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pray. We don't resort to The
wolverine was tired of talking. He aimed
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the musket and held down the trigger. A barrage of acorns fired out from
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the barrel. Waits no, the
boomerangs. Flaming boomerangs fired out the barrel,
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pelting the mantises, who had all
been caught off guard. Some were
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clipped in the head, some had
their bowstaffs knocked out of their grip.
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The lead mantis charged the wolverine,
exhibiting a brave howl, or better yet,
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an ancient war cry that summoned the
mantises Tyrannosaurus wrex god, waking him
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from this billion years slumber. The
ground split open, and a massive Tyrannosaurus
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wrex rose up from underneath, lavas
skewing up all around it like liquid fireworks.
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The army of mantiss fought off the
barrage of flaming boomerangs and the woaring
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continued to relentlessly fire them. The
roar of the freehistoric beast rumbled through the
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chests and hearts of the warriors.
The lava flowed, threatening to huh No,
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threatening to completely engulfing the mantises.
The wolverine refocused his aim on the
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Tyrannosaurus wrecks, firing the fire enhanced
boomerangs at its face. As the random,
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bizarre battle and the forbidden Forest played
out, eventually causing a catastrophic collapse
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of the Earth's crust, which sent
earthquakes across the no which split the planet
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in half. The crickets continued to
just sit upon its mossy rock, smirking
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and shirping, going down with the
ship. The ship in a devastating state
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that he was responsible for. We
hope to meg atrocity against the nature,
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The cricket laughed as the two halves
of Earth drifted away into the wait.
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As the two halves of Earth exploded
and destroyed the universe. Thank you for
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listening to micro Terrors. Join us
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more fun, visit our website at
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more about our author, Scott Donnelly,
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who has other horrors for both young
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