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It shown that she was a teacher of this school and she was working at 12 am then a cleaner guy came in and give her a juice drink and she drank it then she fell a sleep and the cleaner guy raped her, kill her and buried her under the floor of the class. A boy saw the murderer kill the teacher so he run very quickly but the cleaner guy caught him and kill him by chopping him into pieces and throw the pieces in the toilet."And this:
"Then I saw a baby in one box which have a lot of blood in here and worms had eaten the meat of the baby."
The first story was written by a 14 year-old boy and the fact that it is well written for such a young second-language learner only makes it more disturbing.
The second story was written by a girl of 15. It wasn't so much the words that she used- although they were bad enough- it was the pictures that she used to illustrate the post that were frightening. (there is no way I'll be showing those photos here!)
To be fair the task was to write a ghost story and post it on the blog. And they are good kids who are probably only reflecting Cambodia's long, long history of violent and macabre fairytales, stories and, more recently, movies.
That doesn't make it any less disturbing though.
These stories have been deleted from the blog but for more ghost story examples see:
Philip, I hope they're just examples of way too over active imaginations!
ReplyDeleteGood to see you got a mention in the 'Lavender Girl'.
To be fair to them I probably helped with the imagination bit by having them simultaneously listen and read a ghost story before they began writing. And as I said these are good kids who are really only writing in a similar vein to stories and movies that they have read and seen whilst growing up.
ReplyDeleteSadistic crime is rampant here though. Really ugly, cruel stuff; the acid-in-the-face revenge attacks being a prime example.
For some, growing up with graphic tales of horror must have an affect...