Greek-Ish Awesomeness: A Short Story

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Greek-ish Awesomeness!!! Bk.1

Hi. I’m Chris, and I’m also 19 years old. I’m, more or less, kinda a Greek Geek. That’s my nickname at least. Really, I don’t know crud about what the Greek Gods did, I just know some of their names. Apparently that counts. I dunno. I don’t count it as geek-ish.But, everyone else does. That’s the problem with my life. Here, let me show you how it all went down.

Chapter 1: Zeus
Seriously. Why does everything need to start with Zeus. Nope. Moving on. Oh, hey. I didn’t see you there. I was reading Percy Jackson’s GREEK GODS, yeah, that book.I know, I know, that’s geek-ish. Anyways, I’ll read this book later.
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Okay, I’m now at this terrible place, called,(Drumroll Please!) Work. Plain ‘ole work.
Yep an-- Holy Sh--!!! Don’t worry, I almost said it. But there’s a huge freakin’ uh, Cerberus. Yep. He’s here. And not happy, I can tell you that much. Augh! Jeez, that hurt, uh, I’m gonna stop recording while I run for my life, I’ll get back when I’m safe. If I ever will be.
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Okay, I’m home. Why I screamed, well it was kinda terrifying. I mean, first, I was walking home, then, there’s a huge three-headed dog-wolf thing, coming out of the ground strait in front of me!!! Then, as I’m trying to run
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It didn’t feel good. I mean, the good thing out of it was that I’ve mastered using my uh, fake leg. Yeah, they had to cut it off because the bite wound was too deep for fixing. And uh, well the good thing is one, i survived, two, I’m back home. Oh, hey, have you met my turtle? No. no you haven't. Her name is Shelley. Yeah, yeah, I know, dumb, common name. That’s why I like it. It’s a nice and classic name. A-- Shelley? Are you okay? Shelley? Uh, Nope. Run. Is Zeus trying to murder me because I skipped his chapter!?!?! Seriously. Couldn’t you make my punishment different than transforming my turtle, Shelley to a giant turtle, thing? Shelley, no-no girl, calm down. Shelley!! Calm down this instant!!! Ahh!

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