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Summary Of Billy Clayton's 'Monster': A Narrative Fiction
One day, there was a scientist, named Billy Clayton. He has been experimenting with corn, the horrendous stench of corn fills his laboratory. As he’s whirling the spoon in a cauldron of different types of hazardous chemicals, the corn behind him starts to stand, poised for attack, like a gladiator ready to battle a pride of lines. Billy turns to see what the uproar was about, and SMACK the corn hit him so hard he crashed to the floor in a heap. The corn crashed through the lab like a bull in a fine china shop. After an hour, billy woke up with a colossal headache. He was hit so hard he didn’t know what happened, so he sat there wondering what the heck happened. He then saw the huge gap in the wall, the size of an elephant. Billy just sighed …show more content…
Billy was gaining hope again, the light of dawn came off the horizon, they were winning. Billy watched the monster start to get weak, falling to the ground, once again he hears the faint thump of the monster hit the floor, the gunfire stops once again. He rests his head on the car door, everyone cheers. The spotlights scan the circle where the monster was, the body was there, lifeless. He couldn't believe his eyes, the monster was huge. “Finally” Billy thought, it's over. Billy fought himself drifting off to sleep, he was up all night in a war zone. He couldn't sleep yet not so soon. He got up off his knees and walked up to the lifeless corn monster, Billy almost felt bad for it. The monster had a big hole where his eye was supposed to be. And green torn clothes, Billy saw it was breathing! He ran back to cover as a burnt piece of corn flies right past him. a tank fires and blows its leg right off. The monster looks to be done for but it just stands up on one foot! BOOM!! Another bomb hits the monster, then another, nothing. Corn hits the tank, and dents it, Billy's jaw dropped. He closed it and ducked below the car, the gunfire begins. The monster shoots back, corn shoots straight through the doors of the car, a piece of corn whisks right past Billy's eyes. The monster was on fire yet again, Billy was very tired and closed his eyes. He wakes up to a huge explosion, he wondered how he fell asleep. BOOM!! Another bomb shakes the ground he was laying on. The sun was beating down on the as if it were the Sahara. Everyone was sweating and everyone was tired. Billy got up and looked at the monster, it looked like a zombie, barely standing, it's arms were stumps and one leg was gone, the other had chunks taken out of it. The monster finally falls after another bomb. It looks like it'll stay down, Billy gets up and looks at it, and again walks over to it. He looks down at its body, and kneels down next to it,

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