The Monkeys Paw Short Story

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The Monkeys Paw
There is an old story about a man and how he had a monkeys paw. Well heres how it all happened. A man named Matt who was 36 years old and lived alone without any family, was shopping in a market one day and went to an antique shop. While he was looking for something interesting to buy a weird looking object caught his eye. He walked over to it, picked it up and asked how much it was. The owner of the shop was an old fakir and he said that he had never seen that before and said he could have it for free. Later that day when Matt got home he sat down in his chair and started looking at the monkeys paw. While he was doing this he started thinking about how lonely he is and started thinking about how he wanted a wife and a family. Before he could stop himself he said out loud “I wish I had a wife and kids” and all the sudden he dropped the monkeys paw and let …show more content…

When he got to them the mother figure said “Hello sir, we have no where to stay and this is the only house the we haven’t asked. So me and my children were wondering if we could stay with you for a while?” Matt couldn’t believe it. His wish was coming true!!! “Yes you and your family can stay here as long as you would like.” he replied. Later that night the Matt was thinking of what his other two wishes could be when he head a big bang. Matt jumped up and ran up stairs to see what was wrong. When he got to the top of the stairs he tried to get into the room that he heard the loud noise from but the door was locked. Matt had to think quickly and when he finally came to a conclusion he decided that he was going to try to kick down the door. He kicked his foot so hard into the door it swung open and there he saw that one of the children had fallen from a window in the upstairs bedroom. Matt felt awful that something like this happened in his house and felt really bad for the childs

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