Red Creature: A Narrative Fiction

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He was running down a dark hallway, a horde of zombies chasing after him, he was just about to grab the door to the stairs when A red creature pinned the man down….. Henry Jerked with a start, the nightmare has been haunting him again. Sweat run down his neck as he thought about the previous nightmare he had, which was a long time ago, but that nightmare had actually happened.” This can’t be real,” Henry thought to himself, “ Zombies aren't real, right?” But yet again, it looked so real, it feels like that they are chasing him instead of the soldier that is running down the familiar hallway that he use to walk down every day for training. He was still reassuring himself that wasn't real when his phone rang. “HELP, ANYONE, HENRY ARE YOU THERE?”

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