The New Monkey's Paw Short Story

The New Monkey’s Paw

Once on a dreadful night a man named Shmerbert had a dreadful fright….

We start with a man named Shmerbert who just bought a new house. When he walked in with the doctor who so painstakingly took care of him all he could think was wow I have some work to do. The floor was cracked, the walls falling down, the ceiling dripping wet like a faucet, the stairs unclimbable, and the smell of death hung in the air.

“Why did you buy this place?” Dr. Zaveri asked.

“It was fairly cheap,” Shmerbert then stated.

“Well either way with how much it needs to be repaired it will cost as much as a really nice house,” Zaveri replied.

As they explored the house Shmerbert found something rather peculiar, a paw, to be exact a monkey’s paw.

“What’s

that you found there?” Zaveri asked.
“It looks like a paw,” Shmerbert replied.

“Well, perhaps we should take it to the local witch doctor, after all weird items such as that are not my profession,” Zaveri announced….

A few hours later they arrived at the witch doctor's hut, the place was like a tiny little tent probably filled with the most wicked beings.

Shmerbert then knocked on the door, “Hello is anybody home,” he asked.

A few seconds later the witch doctor answered the door as if he knew they were there,“Yes how do you require my assistance?” He asked.

“Could you tell us what this is?” Zaveri asked holding the paw up.

“Wait... Is that?? Could it be??? It is... It’s the legendary monkey's paw, where did you find it?” The witch doctor exclaimed excitedly

Dr. Zaveri then looked at Shmerbert and back at the witch

doctor.
“But what does it do,” Zaveri asked, confused
“It grants three wishes to the user,” the witch doctor replied, “But it looks like it’s out of power I can fix that.”....
A few minutes later the witch doctor returned with the paw
“So how do you make a wish,” Shmerbert asked
“Hold it up in your right hand and say your wish aloud,” the witch doctor answered, “But I warn you this wish for something sensible, or you might not get what you expect, for this paw is dreadfully cursed.”....

After a long time of thinking Shmerbert thought he had the perfect idea his family would be coming into town tomorrow and he wanted to have a good amount of money to fix the house and to spend on personal wants.

So he raised the paw in his right hand and said “I wish for ten thousand dollars.”

And now all he had to do was wait….

A few hours later he heard a loud buzzing he realized it was coming from his phone he quickly picked it up in the hope of getting money

“Hello this is Shmerbert speaking’” he said excitedly.

“Hello, yes,”the person said, “Uh.. How should I put this your parents…. Were in a horrible, just horrible accident and I was calling to say I’m so sorry and that you will have some money delivered to you right away.”

“How much,” Shmerbert asked.

“Ten thousand dollars,” He replied…..

The next day Shmerbert fixed up his house, but he felt very depressed, then he had an idea.

“The paw the monkey's paw!!!” he

exclaimed.
He scrambled to pick it up
“I wish my mom and dad were alive again,” he shouted…..
A few minutes later he heard a knock on the door. He then thought to himself they would be torn up they would be zombies he was starting to freak out. He quickly grabbed the paw and made his third and final wish. Then the knocking ceased like it had never happened. He opened the door and quickly ran out.