Megan en de Inbreker: De Megan Reeks, #12

MEGAN

and the

BURGLAR

A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!

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by

OWEN JONES

Copyright © 2023 Owen Jones

Megan and the Burglar

by Owen Jones

Published by

Megan Publishing Services

https://meganthemisconception.com

All rights reserved.

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Other novelettes in the same series:

The Psychic Megan Series

A Spirit Guide, A Ghost Tiger and One Scary Mother!

The Misconception

Megan's Thirteenth

Megan’s School Trip

Megan’s School Exams

Megan’s Followers

Megan and the Lost Cat

Megan and the Mayoress

Megan Faces Derision

Megan’s Grandparents Visit

Megan’s Father Falls Ill

Megan Goes on Holiday

Megan and the Burglar

Megan and the Cyclist

Megan and the Old Lady

Megan’s Garden

Megan Goes To the Zoo

Megan Goes Hiking

Megan and the W. I. Cookery Competition

Megan Goes Riding

Megan Goes Yachting

Megan at Carnival

Megan at Christmas

Megan Catches Covid-19

2.  DEDICATION

This edition is dedicated to my wife, Pranom Jones,

for making my life as easy as she can. She does a great job of it.

Karma will repay everyone in just kind.

3.  INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

Believe not in anything simply because you have heard it,

Believe not in anything simply because it was spoken and rumoured by many,

Believe not in anything simply because it was found written in your religious texts,

Believe not in anything merely on the authority of teachers and elders,

Believe not in traditions because they have been handed down for generations,

But after observation and analysis, if anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, accept it and live up to it.

Gautama Buddha

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Great Spirit, whose voice is on the wind, hear me.

Let me grow in strength and knowledge.

Make me ever behold the red and purple sunset.

May my hands respect the things you have given me.

Teach me the secrets hidden under every leaf and stone, as you have taught people for ages past.

Let me use my strength, not to be greater than my brother, but to fight my greatest enemy – myself.

Let me always come before you with clean hands and an open heart, that as my Earthly span fades like the sunset, my Spirit shall return to you without shame.

(Based on a traditional Sioux prayer)

4.    CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

1 Dad Makes a Suggestion   11

2 The Picnic    21

3 The Burglary    33

4 The Aftermath    43

5 Wacinhinsha    55

Glossary     61

The Disallowed: Chapter One  63

5.  ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

My thanks to the artist who did the cover for me, Jackii.

6.  1 DAD MAKES A SUGGESTION

One Friday night, while sitting in front of the television watching a late-night horror movie, as they often did, Megan’s father, Robert had an idea.

What do you say we pack up everything tomorrow, food, blankets, kitchen sink, and go to the woods for the day?

Megan and her mother, Suzanne, looked at each other with the same expression they might have used if a dog had just spoken to them in English.

We need more notice than that, Robert!

Why, what’s the problem?

For a start, I’ll have to get up early and make up a hamper, but tomorrow is the day we stock up on food – the cupboard is bare. If you had suggested it yesterday, I could have got something in.

And I have to go to Swimming Club and work for Mrs. Williams every Saturday morning too. It’s too late to cancel at midnight the day before, isn’t it?

Yes, all right then. Point, er, points taken... How about Sunday then?

Sure, we’ll get all we need tomorrow and do the thing properly.

Yes, please, Daddy! I haven’t been to the woods for ages. Which one are you thinking of? Mill Wood?

No, I thought we could take a drive out to Arthur’s Forest. It’s not so far and if we start early enough, say seven or eight, we can be there by ten or eleven. It’ll be a nice family outing for us. We haven’t had one for a while, have we?

I can’t remember the last time except for our holiday in France... maybe when Nain and Taid came down for the weekend and we went to the beach, but that was only local anyway.

OK, shall we do it or not?

Do it! they all shouted.

OK, we’re doing it by a unanimous vote... Now I’ve gone and lost my place in the film... Has Dracula bitten that girl yet?

Yes, Daddy, twenty minutes ago!

Oh...

∞

The next day, they each followed their normal Saturday morning routines. Megan took the bus to her swimming club in the local Leisure Centre, but left after an hour, as usual to go to her Saturday morning job with the mayoress, Mrs. Williams in the Civic Offices across the car park. She worked from ten until twelve, writing about or discussing the problems that teenagers faced in Feyton and the surrounding area. This she did to