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Ruby Went Into The Subway
Ruby held onto her hat as the wind blew it back and forth, as she walked down the steps leading to the subway. She was heading to an art convention downtown, but Ruby had an eerie feeling about taking the subway a extremely creepy eerie feeling, because she always took a taxi. Rumors said that the subway was full of creepy bugs, blood, mask people all types of things, but she didn’t believe it soon Ruby finally made her way onto the subway, her stomach rumbled as if a lion and drum were in her stomach and her head spun around in circles as she saw a passenger besides her shooting out vomit when they saw a rat.
A couple stops later 3 more passengers get on, a young woman and two older men they sat down. Something wasn't right about the young

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