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1. READ ME FIRST! Click here to refresh yourself on how authors develop mood!

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1. READ ME FIRST! Click here to refresh yourself on how authors develop mood!

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Word choice, sensory images, and character actions

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2. READ ME FIRST! Examples of Describing Mood in Writing:

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2. READ ME FIRST! Examples of Describing Mood in Writing:

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funny silly alienated cynical frightened isolated powerless terrified angry depressed cheerful frustrated lethargic joyful playful proud calm relaxed upbeat serious rejected threatened annoyed peaceful desolate futile lonely remorseful uncomfortable anxious disappointed gloomy melancholy restless vengeful apathetic     suspicious discontented grumpy morose scared     vulnerable apprehensive dismayed haunting nauseated skeptical worried distressed heartbroken nervous serious brooding drained hesitant nightmarish shocked cold embarrassed hopeful numb sick confining empty optimistic hostile overwhelmed somber confused envious humiliated painful stressed cranky exhausted indifferent pensive suspenseful critical fatalistic intimidated perplexed suspicious crushed foreboding irritated pessimistic tense

Use these words when describing mood! "Your quote makes me think the mood is very silly because of how goofy your characters are with each other!" Do not say that it's "sad" -- it's apathetic... it's nightmarish... it's somber!

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“I talked more quickly—more vehemently; but the noise steadily increased".

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Her body had died...but her life...not so much.

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4. READ ME FIRST! YOUR TURN! Add your post ANYWHERE!

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4. READ ME FIRST! YOUR TURN! Add your post ANYWHERE!

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Scroll down and scroll horizontally to find a place for your quote! Add color to your padlet box, too!
1. Refer to your story you wrote for homework on Thursday, 10/8.
2. Choose a line or two from your story that BEST captivates the MOOD you wanted to convey in your story.
3. Add your chosen line(s) in a new post on the Padlet!
4. Look at the other examples your classmates have posted- add a "like" to your favorites! (This is all 5 of my classes- there will be TONS to choose from!!)
5. Comment on your classmates' posts and identify what the writer did to convey mood in their quotation.

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ck, i turned on the TV, the lights flickered and then the power went out. I could hear the thunder.

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ck, i turned on the TV, the lights flickered and then the power went out. I could hear the thunder.

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"click, i turned on the TV, the lights flickered and then the power went out. I could hear the thunder.

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She opened her eyes.. There she was in the tree house all alone. She knew she had to let go.. I mean her whole family was murdered years ago.

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"my heart raced faster and faster, it felt like a 1000 years just walking in the cold dark room, i raced for something to jump out, but the only noise was the moaning creak of the floorboards as i stepped"

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"Click clack, went the pebbles under my friend Jamie and I’s feet as we walked up the frigid pebble pathway until we reached the great wooden doors. We stopped dead just inches away from the doors."

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He scared the living Jesus out of all of us

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It was 3am and we snuck out for fun. Then when we got down the stairs a big shadow came across us and went right next to us. We got so scared so we sprinted up the stairs as fast as we could and tried to run out the door.

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"As I turned on the shower, *boom* I hear loud lighting."

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"There was a smokey smell"

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She padded softly through the cold misty forest, her legs trembling with fear and her ears twitching frantically. She panted as she tried to find coverage from the storm, there was nowhere to hide.

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Suddenly, she heard the floorboards creaking in the hallway.  She held her breath, waiting for another noise.  Slowly, her door inched open., revealing the intruder.

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"Whoosh! I heard the noise of something flying around."

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"I reached into my back pocket and took out my pocket knife. Breathing heavily with my thoughts swirling around in my head I ran my fingers over the sharp blade"

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"There was the smell of smoke."

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What have I done...am I putting everyone, at.... at risk? How do I end this dreadful nightmare? "Wake up wake up" I kept telling my self.

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"People say that the man who lived in that house was murdered."

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"We were silent but we heard people coming, closer, and closer."

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Therefore, I have come to the conclusion that insanity is not doing something over and over and expecting different results, it is knowing the outcome will be the same, that every number is the same, that every flight leads to nothing. It's not knowing whether you have been running for days, weeks, or years, it’s when the sobbing slowly turns into laughter.

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As she opened the shed door there, her parents were dead! Dead holding 2 balloons looking pale as ghosts! She walks in and before she can get fully in right behind her is her doll! Her doll holding a knife then stabbing her in the back!

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"everything went silent, all I could hear is my own breaths, I slowly walked towards the door"

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I chuckled as I replayed the screams of my victim in my head, over, and over, and over, as I dug a deep hole in the dying grass.

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I chuckled as I replayed the screams of my victim in my head, over, and over, and over, as I dug a deep hole in the dying grass.

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"I had won,and even though it should’ve felt better than it did; I only had one thing on my mind.  The killer clowns…...they had come back for round 2."

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"Whenever I walk in these woods I always get a weird feeling in my gut that I was being watched. "

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"I had been telling myself to push away the darkness for to long it was time to embrace it, It would be the perfect murder."

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"After the space creatures entered our world, nothing has ever been the same."

"The streets are filled with poverty and rotting buildings."

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"I was walking down the street and all of a sudden my face was bagged by a trash bag." - Main Character

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" I opened the car door and when I got in, immediately locked it with a sigh of relief. But, when I started my car and looked into the mirror, there was a pair of eyes in the back seat staring at me. It was the man with the mask on, and he was holding a knife."

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The floor boards creak as I walk down the dark, cold hallway. The dim light flickers and I can see a shadow move behind me. The light turns off and I realize that I am no longer alone.

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The floor boards creak as I walk down the dark, cold hallway. The dim light flickers and I can see a shadow move behind me. The light turns off and I realize that I am no longer alone.

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"Simple, late one night I heard voices, whispers, coming down the attic steps."

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he hid in the bush

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"It smelled  like dead dry leaves. Peering through the fog they could just slightly see a red blob. It disappeared in the fog."
-Jake

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Mood Activity Scary Story                    I slowly turned  the corner and my eyes widened. I saw a clown smeared with makeup who had a wide grin showing his yellow teeth. 

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Mood Activity Scary Story                    I slowly turned  the corner and my eyes widened. I saw a clown smeared with makeup who had a wide grin showing his yellow teeth. 

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I stop breathing - or breathe quieter at least - for a moment to listen, because the birds stop chirping. No, yelling, they stop yelling into my ears from above, and land. I hear footsteps. They move in front of me now instead of behind. It stares me in the face. I smile then frown. “Make it quick,” I plead. It doesn’t.

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The windows were boarded shut, and all I could see was darkness and a slight vision of the house. The walls were scratched, torn apart. I hear settle noises of doorknobs and screams.

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Why, why is death the cloak wrapped around my shoulders? Why does every footprint that has ever walked beside me become covered in snow and never found again? Why does the sun shine everywhere but upon my back? Why is my happiness obsolete? Why are they all gone? Why am I so alone?

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The man covers his eyes and turns around. Weston immediately screamed for Malcolm and Johnny to get into his room. The man looks up and starts sprinting towards them. Malcolm enters the room but Johnny wasn't so lucky. The man grabbed Johnny by the neck and stares directly into Weston's eyes and throws him down the flight of stairs. Johnny lay there motionless and a river of blood forms under the boys chest and arms. And runs to the door. Walter slams the door shut and he holds onto it for dear life but all he hears is TAP,TAP,TAP.

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Me and all my friends were walking in the graveyard on Halloween Night. Something about the air was unsettling and we could all feel it.

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All was quiet. So very quiet, the mice were listening to the pitter patter of their feet dance through floorboards and over kitchens. Yet, maybe too quiet. Though they did not yet know it, the Bensen family would remember this night. For the whole town would be consumed by it.

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You back into the bushes and bump into something. You turn around and you face the last person you would expect. He says “ Remember me?” And you do, because he is your bus driver and you are in danger.

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"Almost like the sharpening of a knife. The sound slowly got louder until BOOM! Lightning struck the house. "

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"He approaches his sisters room, his heart drops when he sees blood dripping from underneath the door." -narrator

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"I did not move a muscle as I just stood there in the middle of the front lawn. I slowly started backing up when I bumped into something, "THUMP." That was the sound of me passing out right in front of the strangers house all alone."

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I killed everyone in the house.

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The eyes were intelligent, but were clearly not human as it walked towards me. Darkness seemed to follow everywhere it went, as it knelt down to where I was and stared into my eyes, staring into my soul.

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He made it but when he pushed to open it they were snowed in… “AHHHHHH!”

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It was October 31st 2020, Halloween a crisp evening about 7 P.M. I was trick or treating with my friends and we were walking down a dark street that we had never been on before there was a very interesting distinct smell in the air.

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"The shadows towered over me like skyscrapers. The wind howled even louder. They felt like they were creeping closer, and closer."

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I looked out my window watching the rain fall hard on the grey pavement. The whole world seemed to be wilting, in a sort of depressing state. I felt so empty, so hollow looking outside as if I was missing something.

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I had heard stories of the Ally, children being taken, ghosts stirring around and taking things from people.

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he slipped on a mango peel and completely forgot about what had happened earlier that day. And blamed it all on luck but once he got in his car he remembered the second appointment and laughed to himself.

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"the clown was never to be seen again, Halloween was actually next week"

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He ran so far that he could not see anything behind him except his own sweat and tears. As he was running, a car pulled up to him and it was a man and he pulled out a gun… “Stop, don't shoot… What did I ever do to you?” “Your father killed my father.”

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The darkness swallowed me whole as I crept deeper and deeper down the hallway. I took a deep breath before slowly reaching my hand towards the silver, chipped doorknob. The knob squeeked as I turned it more. I pushed open the door in what felt like slow motion. The sweat on my forehead and the hairs sticking up on my neck became more noticeable to me as I walked deeper into the pitch black room. 

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The darkness swallowed me whole as I crept deeper and deeper down the hallway. I took a deep breath before slowly reaching my hand towards the silver, chipped doorknob. The knob squeeked as I turned it more. I pushed open the door in what felt like slow motion. The sweat on my forehead and the hairs sticking up on my neck became more noticeable to me as I walked deeper into the pitch black room. 

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right before she saw him in the middle of the road, it was to late. the driver tried to swerve out of the way but crashed.

they didn't survive

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. The werewolf was unique, well it had to be if pounced on Halloween. He had 3 eyes and another on the back of his head for 2 times the sight of a human and the power to see his dinner behind him. (Trick or treaters)  He has four legs, which he needed, especially when he would jump from house to house. He used his thick legs to power off houses and jump on poor kids in the dark night. His fur felt like barbed wire, like the ones surrounding prisons to keep the dangerous people out.

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He counted to 200 and let them hide. Joey had waited almost an hour before he gave up his spot. But when he got up something was different, everything was gone, no sign of life anywhere.

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I stopped to look at the painting, to look at the large maple tree in the foreground while a large barn was in the back. The hairs on the back of my neck started to spike. We spun around, I started to squeeze Deccan's hand while he squeezes right back. Deccan lets out a sigh and so do I, nothing seems to be there. As I face the painting again I pull on Deccan's arm, the barn doors were slightly open and a trail of red led off the canvas and onto the frame. My eyes had widened and felt a panting behind me.

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"I looked around and saw a shadow coming from the woods. I wondered if I should run away or see what it was, so I decided to go into the woods.  I heard laughing and it was coming closer and closer to me."

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I looked up and saw... a.. dark... figure... staring at me... in the middle of the night.

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"He couldn't bear his little girl being dead so he dug her up in the cemetery where her funeral had been and buried her in the pet cemetery which brings the body alive but not the soul."

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The police car thankfully drove me home and then I could not sleep for another week because of how scary that one moment in my life was.

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I try to push through the damp concrete walls to no avail. I can feel its presence closer than ever and know that I am helpless to it.

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"I ran out into the pouring rain, I felt trapped lost, and terrified. When I saw two glowing red eyes and a smirk coming towards me. I turned around to run away but I ran right into a..."

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My feet are swept off the sand and the rushing stream pulls me down further. Water fills my ears and a bubble of breath escapes like a child running from a massacre. The current is stronger than I expected. As I hold my breath underwater, instinctive panic rises. I swallow it down. She must be removed.

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"You‌‌ ‌‌know‌‌ the‌‌ ‌‌feeling‌‌ ‌‌you‌‌ ‌‌get‌‌ ‌‌when‌‌ ‌‌you‌‌ ‌‌know‌‌ ‌‌something‌‌ ‌‌is‌‌ ‌‌wrong?‌‌ ‌‌The‌‌ ‌‌one‌‌ ‌‌you‌‌ ‌‌can‌‌ ‌‌feel‌‌ ‌‌deep‌‌ ‌‌in‌‌ ‌your‌ ‌‌gut‌‌ ‌‌and‌‌ ‌prickling‌‌ ‌‌across‌‌ ‌‌your‌‌ ‌‌back?‌‌"

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It was foggy and the smell of rotting wood filled the air.

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From the minute they pulled into the parking lot Maeve thought that there was something off about this hotel. Emily said she was being silly and told her that it would be fine.

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Scary or somber or funny story lines here!

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Pointing my flashlight at it revealed a tall man with skin pale as a sheet of office paper. His body was contorted and some of his limbs were bent sideways despite him facing forwards. His long neck snapped around exposing his gnarly face. His eyes were missing along with his lips. He unhinged his jaw to reveal rows of dagger-like teeth.

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"This would be until the police would have him cornered in a pitch-black alleyway where he would take his own life and his soul of a demon would leave his body and would bring the stench of blood and pure evil with it. They would give his body to the same farm where he had killed pigs, and the pigs would eat his body from the inside out until nothing but a single skin cell would be left".

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Why can’t the bicycle stand up? It was two tired.

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As I approached the last room, the door closed behind me and I was locked in.  I could hear more footsteps approaching, my anxiety grew more intense

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They looked like distorted and half of the wrapping were put-on other end of a different candy. They were all thinking nothing was gonna happen to them

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"Quickly struggling to my feet, I raced for the door. But that slipup had cost me too much time. I felt something clamp onto my ankle, and everything turned black."

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Taking a nap, then waking up, only to fall asleep again, she said “Wow! That nap was really tiring,”

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It’s been a year now. I continue my seldom stroll to Old Ship Cemetery, a mix of mustiness and dead flowers wafts by my nose as I see it. The uniform gray tomb, almost hidden among the rest, only standing out because of the lonely fake rose I planted last week. I stumble up to it, grasping it in my hands and slowly plucking petal, by petal, by petal, until the green covered plastic stem is all that remains.

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He walks to the car and Joey slams the door behind him.

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I approached the old brick porch, rang the doorbell ready to strike and expected someone to come.

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I left her alone in the kitchen one day, maybe two weeks ago, the audible ticking of the watch worming its way into me, like a parasite wiggling through its host.

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The girl never spoke and stared deeply into his eyes with her malicious black orbs. The house made sputtering noises every few seconds, and the boy felt wind tingle his neck every few seconds. 

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"I saw my body loose feeling, and I saw life leave my eyes. Finally I saw 10 kids standing in the corner of the stage realizing what they had done"

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"I saw my body loose feeling, and I saw life leave my eyes. Finally I saw 10 kids standing in the corner of the stage realizing what they had done"

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He ruined my life. Time to ruin his. he left me to be forgotten, my old man leaving me at every place he went

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"Maybe I wouldn’t be hiding in a tree, waiting for death, and recording the story of my incoming fate to keep my sanity if I had only--"

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"I could feel my heart beat out of my chest, my head so full of bad situations I could barely breathe, my body shook from my fingers to my toes when seeing the inside of her room."

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"It was dark and eerily silent apart from the sirens and crackles of distant fires, but no, now that I paid attention I could hear a low rumbling that was growing louder."

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The thunder cracks outside the shattered window, the flash reveals the shattered bottles and glass, along with the dusty furniture. The howling wind carrying the freezing rain threw the window, and onto the shivering rats.

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"Quickly struggling to my feet, I raced for the door. But that slip up had cost me too much time. I felt something clamp onto my ankle, and everything turned black."

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The note appeared to be covered in grape jelly.

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He walks out the door and Joey slams the door behind him. He asks as he turns his head as he suddenly realizes something. He doesn’t have kids and he left the front door open.

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"We heard a scream in the distance and Sarah was gone. The lights turned back on and the parents came back. But there were only six of us. "

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"Joseph could hear the rustle as the leaves as the robots came closer with the knives in their hand."

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"All of a sudden, I heard a rustling noise beneath my feet, on the matted emerald earth."

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"All of a sudden, I heard a rustling noise beneath my feet, on the matted emerald earth."

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"I teeth the snack, imagining that it is a steak drenched in flavor."

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They’re always happy now and their smiles never leave their faces. Though yesterday father’s grin slipped. But I just sewed it right back on.