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Layla El Banna

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Never Trust A Red Pencil

Weekly Contest #221

CHAPTER ONE 1702, The Forest. The heavy rain spilled down intensely on people’s rooftops, in the dark and brooding forest.  Lucy Misol shivered as she made her way through it, the rain like cool metal pressed to her cheeks. The night sky seemed to swallow everything up, blurring the miniscule houses and it was almost impossible to see anything through it. But she needed to find her home – one of the many cobblestone houses with green metal for roofs. These houses were only for the poor. Only for the people who didn’t have enough ...

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Disguised

Disguised “Finally!” exclaimed Ella. It was time for trick or treating. It was 6:00 pm on Friday the 29 October 2021. She smoothly got into her halloween costume : a Vampire. The girl had put on a dirty white shirt-dress complete with a cloak and had face-painted her face pale white. She slid on some fake fangs and messed up her blonde, straight hair. She quickly grabbed her halloween basket and went down the stairs. “ Just in time,” her mother, who was called Olivia, said. “ Your sister has just gone out,” she said cheerfully. Olivia had se...

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