Creative Writing: The Handmaid: A Short Story

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It was the morning of October,8 1995. John Brown was playing croquet in his large court yard. When he realized that he has not seen his family maid. He decided to go ask his parents if she took the weekend of or had plans. So he put his croquet balls away and went in the house to ask his parents.
When he was walking up he noticed one of the cars was missing, but he kept on walking till he found his parents. They said no we haven't seen her since yesterday morning. Then his mom thought that she hasn't see Ashley ether. So John went up to Ashley's room and knocked on the door she opened it 5 minutes later. “What” she said. “I need you to help find the maid” John said. “No, she doesn't care about me and I don't care about her” but right as Ashley was about to slam the the door John put his foot in it. “Ash, come on if she was never at our house part of your life would be missing” said John. “She the maid not my grandma” Ashley said and slammed the door before John could
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He opened door 11 and all you could see were kid toys. John thought that this must have been the room that Ashley played in and brought all her toys into went she was little. John walked in the room there was a tent set up with sheets inside was some dolls. John moved on to room 10 he opened and the whole the wall was covered with pictures John walked farther in to the room he was looking at the pictures but actually they were frames. Just pictures frames so John went to the other side of the room and there was a draw but there was nothing in that either so he left the room. He moved on to 9 nothing there was nothing either in 8 and 7. Then John went to room 6 and he opened and there were a bunch of cleaning tools. Then he opened room 5 and he saw Ashley leaning over a white bulge of sheats. She just stood there staring at the big bulge. “Ashley” said John. Ashley killed the maid when everyone thought the maid killed

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