Scary Films Are Not Fun

All I had to do was watch one. Just one

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I am not a fan of horror films. I tend to avoid them. Even scary movies don’t appeal to me. So I had to dig deep to find an appropriate movie to answer this prompt.

Then I remembered a movie attached to an unusual and frightening experience that I wrote about a year ago.

Let me set the scene.

I landed on the tiny island for a summer job. I was to join a group of students hired to run summer programs for children on the island.

A friendly Community Councilor greeted me when I arrived. He gave me a quick tour of the island, then dropped me off at the building where the students would stay when they arrived.

The large wooden structure was built on stilts over the water. It was originally a bunkhouse that housed workers from the cannery building next door. It had been empty for years.

The Councilor showed me how to operate the giant oil stove that filled half of the kitchen. They used it to cook and to heat the place. He cranked it up, then wished me luck. “Let me know if you need anything.”

Then he left.

I unpacked, took a little walk, had dinner at a local eatery, watched the sunset, and I went to bed. I opened the book I was reading —…