Creative Writing: The Lady Or The Tiger

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The lady or the Tiger. The man’s hands were trembling so much he thought they would unscrew off. He was so scared he thought he might even have a heart attack. He went to walk toward the right door. When he went to put his hands on the door handles, they felt cold and were made out of metal. He hesitated if he should open the right door or go to the left and open that one.
The king finally roared at him, “if you do not open one of those doors in the next five minutes I will have you thrown in the dungeon.” The man finally went to walk over to the left door. The princess was so mad she wanted to jump down and punch him { she was mad because she knew the girl was behind the left door. When the man went to touch the handle’s they were warmer than the other door. He opened the but, the princess expected to find a girl instead of a bloodthirsty tiger. The man was so afraid he thought he was about to just get eaten without fighting.
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The man unexpectedly found a wooden stake that he tried going after, though the lion did not let him. So, he had to fight with the tiger to get the stake. The tiger smelled like a skunk and was as dirty as a pig rolling in the mud for an hour. The tiger had huge blues eyes that were the size of a leaf. He started to back

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