Lucie's Lesson: A Narrative Fiction

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“Didn’t mom and dad say Miss Wilson would check on us?” Lucie asked as she began to worry no help would be able to come.
“Yeah, I’ll try her next.”
The phone rang and rang and then “Hello?” a small voice asked.
“Yes hello Miss Wilson is that you?” thomas asked, relieved to hear her voice.
“Shushh! They’ll hear you!”
“Who will hear us?” Thomas asked.
“The monsters. They’re in my house. Huge black things with white faces.” Thomas looked at Lucie and she looked back.
“They got to her too Lucie what do we do?”
“I don’t--” Then they heard a scream next door. It was Miss Wilson. She had been taken. Then thomas heard a scream and it wasn’t Miss Wilson this time. It was Lucie. The beasts punched their claws through the door, grabbed Lucie’s arms

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