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Dominoe: A Short Story
Dominoe was in shock after hearing the story Liz just told her . The lady that died on the steps was not just a force by spirits , it was the cause of pure drunkness and childness . Dominoe was in rage at her cousin and friends for doing that , bringing a curse to the school and to themselves. Liz got up from her seat busting out in tears , she explained how she had been watching herself and hoping the curse does not bring anything bad upon her. Alton apparently was claimed to have gotten more heavy into drugs and alcohol and was not heard from for a week till they went into his apartment found him in his bathtub dead with both wrist sliced from broken glass of a picture frame of his mother.
" The drill sergant people hear was not from the door we opened that night , some think that he is the evil bastard who caused the massacre of 1970 at the school." " What is this dark history everyone keeps talking about , why no one will
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She admited to hearing things early hours of the morning , but just turned to the other side ignoring all possibilities. Liz hired a voodoo queen to come and bless her house years ago. She usually lights certain candles to keep away negative energy , she's had bad luck with boys and goes through job to job . She believed all of this , along with her parents not getting along like they use to is a cause of this curse brought upon them from that night. She regreted what they did that night and for even knowing Freddy to bring his friend Alton to do that . She told her about some ghost stories that she encountered there and what people said , no doubt something lurkes those school halls , but no one has dared to see who or what , anyone who does encounter something now a days keeps it to themselves

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