Bittersweet..... Until the Very End

Just a short story I wrote for my first 8th grade English assignment of 2014, based upon "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs.

Herbert White finds himself trapped between the life he once had, or life in the dead. After his mother wishes her son's return, Herbert, his life, the paw, and his family, spiral into a light they never once imagined, and leaving each other heartbroken.