The Toy Thief by D.W. Gillespie6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() After returning unsuccessful, Jack awakes the next morning to find Andy missing from his bedroom. The two of them are able to surmise that The Thief most likely travels through a tangled section of woods called The Trails, and they go out in search of it. Just then, Andy steps out of his room, and as The Thief flees in a panic, Andy realizes his sister is telling the truth. Once she awakens in the middle of the night, she finds her friend's toy has returned, brought back by The Toy Thief, an impossibly tall and rat-like creature with glassy eyes. That night, determined to catch the creature she now calls The Toy Thief, Jack sets up a series of traps, all of which fail miserably. Without another word, he smashes the tape of the intruder. Excited and bewildered, she tries to show the tape to her thirteen year old brother, Andy who is still furious about the spat he and Jack got into the night before. While putting on a pretend show, the two girls leave a video camera running, and when Jack replays the tape the next day, she sees her friend's toy being snatched off the end table and out the back door by a swift, nearly unseen hand. The story opens on a sleepover with nine year old Jack and her close friend. Her father is a well-meaning construction worker who treats her more like a roommate, while her brother, Andy, is an introverted loner prone to violent outbursts, a virtual mirror to his sister who is outspoken to an extreme. As a girl, Jack lives with her father and brother after her mother passed away during childbirth. ![]()
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