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Submitted to Contest #114
Today was like any other day, I was going to Rivertown High School, and my first class happened to be homeroom. Here was where I started the day, with the teacher writing important notes on the whiteboard and calling out our names. “Tracy Donald,” he said. “Here” “Jack Diamond” There was a silence, so this student was marked absent. “Jacklyn Evergreen” “Here” The teacher continued to call out the other students’ names until ... “John McDougall” “H-here” That was me who responded after hearing my name called out. I was always known ...
It was a dark and stormy night, an ordinary man was watching an ordinary show in his ordinary house. How ... well ... ordinary. He was watching a late-night news program, and that’s when the anchorman spoke: “Good evening, Rivertown, tonight we have a report that local business, Oxford Furniture & Supplies, has been shut down, leaving many of its staff unemployed on the spot.” The man turned off his television and let out a big yawn, he figured he should get some sleep. So he got up off of his couch and walked towards his bedroom. He f...
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