The Most Popular Story. " the Boogeyman"

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The Most Popular Story This story I am about to tell you has really happened to me. I am sure you have heard many times how mothers sing lullabies to their children for them to fall asleep. The most popular lullaby is “the boogeyman” (el cucuy), you know, the one where they tell you if you do not fall asleep soon, a monster will come to eat you. My mother had sung that lullaby to my sister. I also could not sleep. The hours passed and just as I started to close my eyes, I heard a noise. I got out of bed, and I looked out into the hall and to my surprise, I saw the boogeyman. He looked like a brown slug with an eye like ping- pong ball and about eight feet high. I ran to bed and tried to sleep, but I could not because his image was going around my head. I was thinking to myself is what I had seen was for real. The next morning, I woke up and there was no boogeyman. I went to school my teacher scolded me many times for not paying attention to the lesson he was giving. At night while I slept, the boogeyman came back with a new toy. He said “This device serves to absorb children who do not sleep at night. Once the child is in, I pour liquid up there, so the child will sleep at night for a week”. I did not know what to do and suddenly an idea came to mind: designing a device to absorb the boogeyman and then somehow disintegrate or burn him. I began to work on the device. In the garden, I found wood, metal, glass, cables, and motors. After a few hours, I had finally finished. It was a giant vacuum that had a glass container to absorb the objects. On top of the vacuum, I put a jar with acids to burn the boogeyman. The night fall and everyone was asleep and I was still waiting for him. I thought he was not coming, but after waiting too long, I found him in the hall. I was going to absorb him but he spoke to me. He begged me to not do anything to him because it was his

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