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Write an original short story that begins with the words: "It was raining hard that night. In my hurry to get into the house, I didn't notice the black car parked across the road. I realized something was, wrong when .........
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IT WAS RAINING HARD .........
It was raining hard that night. In a hurry to get into the house, I didn't notice a black car parked across the road. I realized something was wrong when an arm pulled me into the bush next to the door. I tried shouting but another big palm landed on my mouth. I struggled with my legs but soon felt a fistful blow that made me unconscious.
I woke up to loud voices of men and women screaming around me and the heat made me squirm uncomfortably. I opened my eyes, feeling dizziness in my head and coughed. There was smoke all around me. I heard the loud sound of a fire engine and found myself in a house that was on fire.
It was not my house, the things lying there were not mine. It was an unknown place.
I was scared. In order to look for a way out to pulled me up and started moving towards the door. I touched the doorknob and 'aeww!', it was hot. It then struck me, the house was on fire.
I didn't know what to do. The coughs became frequent and it was difficult to breathe. I didn't realize when I fell down unconsciously. I could feel nothing, but faintly heard a door break open and I was being covered and carried away.
The cool breeze on the skin and faint voices calling out my name brought me out of the deep slumber. I opened my eyes to white walls and lights around me. I felt a warm hand on my palm and heard exciting words. 'He is awake now !' Moving my head towards the right, I saw the most beautiful face, my mother was there in front of me and tears welled up in my eyes. Feeling safe I drifted peacefully into sleep again.
My parched throat forced me out of sleep and l mumbled softly, 'water', 'water!' I drank some and opened my eyes, feeling a lot better. It felt like a rebirth.
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‘Well, what do you think of it?’ Mother asked.
We stared at the odd garment and wondered what it was for.
‘What is it?’ asked Larry at length.
‘It’s a bathing-costume, of course,’ said Mother. “What on earth did you think it was?’ ‘It looks to me like a badly-skinned whale,’ said Larry, peering at it closely.
You can’t possibly wear that, Mother,’ said Margo, horrified, Shy, it looks as though it was made in nineteen-twenty.’
‘What are all those frills and things for?’ asked Larry with interest.
‘Decoration, of course,’ said Mother indignantly.
‘What a jolly idea! Don’t forget to shake the fish out of them when you come out of the water.’
‘Well, I like it, anyway,’ Mother said firmly, wrapping the monstrosity up again, ‘and I’m going to wear it.’
‘You’ll have to be careful you don’t get waterlogged, with all that cloth around you,’ said Leslie seriously.
‘Mother, it’s awful; you can’t wear it,’ said Margo. ‘Why on earth didn’t you get something more up to date?’
‘ When you get to my age, dear, you can’t go around in a two-piece bathing suit… you don’t have the figure for it.’
‘I’d love to know what sort of figure that was designed for,’ remarked Larry.
‘You really are hopeless, Mother,’ said Margo despairingly.
‘But I like it… and I’m not asking you to wear it,’ Mother pointed out angrily.
‘That’s right, you do what you want to do,’ agreed Larry; ‘don’t be put off. It’ll probably suit you very well if you can grow another three or four legs to go with it.’
Mother snorted indignantly and swept upstairs to try on her costume. Presently she called to us to come and see the effect, and we all trooped up to the bedroom. Roger the dog, was the first to enter, and on being greeted by this strange apparition clad in its voluminous black costume rippling with frills, he retreated hurriedly through the door, backward, barking ferociously. It was some time before we could persuade him that it really was Mother, and even then he kept giving her vaguely uncertain looks from the corner of his eye. However, in spite of all opposition, Mother stuck to her tent-like bathing- suit, and in the end we gave up.
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One word answers or short phrases will be accepted.
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- Which sentence tells you that Margo thought it was old fashioned?
- What was Leslie’s concern?
- Why did mother think it was suitable?
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