Scary: Its dark and so silent that I could hear a penny drop. However‚ there’s screeching every few minutes. I can feel a person staring at me but there isn’t anyone there. The lights flicker and I hear a woman scream down stairs. Echoing in the dead silent house in less than a minute. I feel this warmness rush through me and my heart rate has accelerated. My breathing is heavy and I am trying to quietly move down stairs. I feel my hand become saturated with something goopy. My eyes widen as there
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a simple dare that Jem has to carry out in order to gain respect from his sister and friend. Scout and Jem both learn about courage through the first Boo game they invented by testing their levels of fear. The game has turned into a dangerous‚ scary expedition that leaves all three of them shaken. Boo’s unspoken‚ unseen presence at the fire put him in a new light in Jem’s and Scout’s eyes. Yet again‚ they see reality and their games slowly fading and losing their meaning. The burning house
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The crafting of the story Scary Movies by Stephen Amidon is highly effective. The structure‚ the narrative voice‚ the use of images and the description make the story an effective one. The story begins with the opening statement‚ "I was 9 years old when I first discovered the Roxy Theater and learnt something about fear’. I think this is a good opening for the story because it keeps the reader interested. The reader wants to find out what kind of fear the narrator is experiencing. When
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What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either
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em Udejiofor Period-2 Mrs.Weber-LA Scary Story Remember A group at summer camp sits down to tell stories around their glowing pit of fire. In the night of the woods‚ everyone grows tired and weary but get awakened with the upcoming events. “Ok guys‚ take a seat‚”Danny bossed. “When were you my mama‚ D?” Joe asked “Just sit around the fire”‚plead Danny‚”I have a story to tell.” “Shall I begin‚”Danny requested. On a remote military‚ testing facility there was a slight problem. “Why slight?”Joe
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On 24th November evening was my strange evening but out of my heart the evening was as usual as other days but inside my heart fears that something was really going to happen but I had many ideas about it thinking it may be something surprise or something danger but all what I did is forget about it and continued to do my school homework. Suddenly a noise appeared from the kitchen. I ran to the kitchen then I saw my mum had been slipped and fallen down and was unconscious I took her phone and call
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m. My Parents were leaving for Dad’s business tour to Delhi and they won’t be back for at least two weeks. My sister and I were quite happy about the fact that we can do whatever we want for two whole weeks. I was planning to stay awake till late night and watch movies. But little did we know that we were going to regret these feelings later. Mom and Dad left around 11. So it was only me and my elder Sister Esha in the whole apartment. It’s a three storied old apartment building with only one unit
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Sean Shannon Period 2-3 Scary Story “Science Class” “Ahhhh!” I screamed. I awoke in my bed in the middle of the night from a nightmare. But this wasn’t just any nightmare. I pictured it so vividly that it was scary. I pictured a man with a blood-drenched white lab coat‚ and a long hook for a right hand. I was definitely startled‚ but I decided to forget about it and
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Horror can make you scream and cry‚ yet we alway come back asking for more. Scary Tales by Jackie Torrence is about scary stories being good for children. I disagree with her because horror can give you blood clots‚ nightmares‚ and paranoia. To begin with‚ scary stories can give people blood clots. According to http://hellogiggles.com/horror-movies-bad-for-health/‚ a study was done on the movie Insidious‚ which gave people higher levels of coagulant factor VIII‚ which can create blood
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Scary statistics about book reading July 13‚ 2006 in General by jc | 1 comment I stumbled on Rich Burridge’s weblog post about book statistics‚ it has some scary numbers : Who is Reading Books (and who is not) One-third of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives. Many do not even graduate from high school. 58% of the US adult population never reads another book after high school. 42% of college graduates never read another book. 80% of US families
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