Delilah: Target Number One
Shawn rolled his eyes at the comment, dismissing Delilah's venom. Instead, he turned toward Penny and the others. "He's called the Gristler. He used to be a vice principal at our school a long time ago. He was cruel - he punished kids for every bad thing they did, even the stuff that was an accident, or didn't really hurt anybody." It had been a while since Shawn had done a monologue, but he was finding it was a lot like riding a bike.
"One day, he hit a kid with his belt so hard that the buckle broke, and the pieces of it messed up his eyes! The children thought they were safe, because now the Gristler couldn't see them do bad stuff, so he couldn't punish them. But they were wrong..." He lowered his voice a little here, so the other kids would have to come closer to listen. "He hated kids so much that he sold his soul to the Devil. He asked for the power to sniff out the bad deeds a kid does, and big grindy teeth so he can chew them up into paste! And his wish was granted."
"The Gristler ate up a dozen kids before he realised how the Devil tricked him! He could only sniff out the bad things that kids do! If a kid wrote down the bad things he did on a piece of paper, the Gristler couldn't tell the difference between the paper and the kid. And from then on, kids in this neighbourhood knew that if the Gristler was in town, you have to write down a bad thing you did and leave it on your windowsill. And if you wake up in the morning and it's gone, you know that's why you didn't get eaten."