9 Winter Tales

CHAPTER 9 WINTER TALES HAVE you SEEN my MOM? Eric tells us the story of the Killer Snowman. "There were these people who made a snowman with a carrot nose and radish eyes. It sat on their front lawn and didn't move...until it was struck by lightning. Then it blinked its radish eyes, blew its carrot nose, and started to walk like Frankenstein."

CRASH! ZAP!

YIPES! "Why didn't it melt?" asks Freddy. "What melt?" "The snowman-when it was hit by lightning." "It didn't melt—it came to life." "It would have melted." "This is my story," says Eric. WAIT FOR ME.

"Anyway, it came to life and went looking for an ice-cream store." "Why?" asks Derek. "Because it was hungry," answers Eric. "What did it eat?" I asked. "A snow cone," says Eric. GRRRR LOCK THE DOOR!

I look out the window and our snowman is still standing quietly in the moonlight. Suddenly, there's a knock at the door. We all freeze.