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This is a story about a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live together with its surroundings. The town sits in the midst of a checkerboard of prosperous farms, with fields of grain. Strange things crept over the area, and everything began to change. Toward the end of the story; it had been revealed that the story was fiction after all.

In the story, the town lay in the midst of checkerboard like prosperous farms with fields of grain and hillsides of orchards. Where in spring white clouds of bloom drifted over the green fields. Countless birds came to feed on the berries, the seeds of the dried weeds. These descriptions give the idea of that the town would look like. And how it would feel if we lived there

When strange things crept over the area, everything began changing. Something mysterious swept the flocks of chickens the cattle and sheep became sick and died. A shadow of death was all over the land, and no one knew why or how. Then from out of nowhere, we find out the town is not real.
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At first, it was a little boring, but then I started to think that I want to find that place and move there. By the end of the story, it threw me to find out the town was a made up

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