Odelia Kolles

In the 4th grade, I wrote a ghost story that was published in a collection of stories by children across the state. I have retyped it here for your reading pleasure:

Odelia Kolles
By Rachel Wolf
Grade 4
Kennedy Elementary School
St. Cloud Community Schoools, District 742
Drama



I'm Katherine Wayner. I live in Avon, Minnesota. The story I'm about tot ell you is so creepy! It began like this.

I was sitting in the back yard playing marbles when I heard clanking from the graveyard beside my house. It was the most peculiar thing, I thought. When I continued to play marbles, the clanking continues. I missed, my attention was drawn to the clanking. Then, I decided to go to the graveyard to make sure everything was O.K.

As I was walking in to the graveyard I noticed the flowers by my feet. Such pretty flowers, I thought. Purple, blue, yellow, red and pink. I heard more clanking. I jumped! Then I noticed a nice-looking young woman in a pink dress. It was a long old fashioned dress with black boots. She had brown hair in a bun.

She looked in my eyes, her eyes looked like a kitten's, both soothing and devilish. "I want you to thelp me plant flowers!" she said. I realized I was in the center of the graveyard. "I will." I said, in a meek voice. We talked and I found that the clanking noise was the shovel clanking against rocks in the ground.

Odelia Kolles was her name. The next day I went back. I noticed the gravestone where we were planting flowers. It said:

Hier Ruhnt
In Memory of
Odelia Kolles
Died
1820 Sept. 18th
Born
1800 Dec. 3rd