Creative Writing: The Tunnels

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The Tunnels
“Are you afraid of pipes, Jay or should I say jason” echoes from the pipes. You wake up from a bad dream and then you decide to go downstairs while you look at your mom watching news and go to the cabinet and get a sandwich. Then you go back up to get your shovel. Then you go outside banging your shovel against the ground and you hit the pipes. You fall back and try to scream but then you fall down into the dirt and get knocked out. When you wake up, you notice that the dirt is falling. You crawl through the dark dirty tunnel while the carrots you planted stab you in the back. You find a whole and hide there. You felt like was taking 30 minutes for the dirt to fall. When you look to the side, you see that it is blocked. You look up and see pipes. You scream and scream but the pipes muffles your scream so your mom can’t hear you.
“No friends and now this, *#$!” you say.
You crawl through peacefully and see the
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“grab, grab, grab” said the dirt.
“Goodbye” said the shovel.
“Crack” said your skull.
You wake up from the dream. You look at your shovel and then you get a headache. But you still crawl through, you dirt from the tunnel. You crawl and crawl for hours and hours. It is lunch time and you see a mouse with a piece of cheese. The mouse hands you the cheese while you pet it. Then you move on while the mouse follows you.
“Squeak” goes the mouse.
“Squeak” goes you. Then you notice the mouse is hungry and you share the cheese with mouse. It takes days and months and years through the tunnel until he finally meets it.
There was a hole, a tiny one with no pipes under it. you can leave the underground. When you put your shovel to it, the ground started to shake. Then the water above started to flood you and then quickly takes you in seconds and then smashes you into the pipes knocking you out. Then after the water drained and you woke up, you walk back to the whole and see that you are about 3 miles away from your

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