St Helens Narrative

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“Go north of St. Helens, no turns, just follow the satin flowers’ I read the remaining guidelines and proceeded as I made my way outside the discarded forest. The time was specifically 10:45, you could tell by the decreasing temperature that it was late, I glanced some more over the crinkled piece of paper ‘there will be an unoccupied vehicle approximately 300 meters from the north entrance from where you exited”
I scanned around until my eyes fell upon a black tented 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. I casually walked towards the car, threw my accessories in and removed the set of keys from my pocket and drove from its initial parking spot. There on the dashboard was a colored coded pined map of Oregon, light sketches from my current location up until Lincoln City. Oddly enough, there was a rag folded on the passenger’s seat, I grabbed the cloth and wiped the false features away from my face. My once identified slender nose now appeared wider, I wiped my back and sides of my olive skin, now revealing a blueish birthmark behind my right
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The time is nearly two a.m. on this early Thanksgiving morning and I have some pretty hard-core breaking news from Portland’s KGW Station. They were informed late yesterday night that there was a hijacker on board Boeing 727 with a bomb! Yea, a flipping guy hijacked the flipping plane, the dude demanded 200 Gs. Do you guys know what I could do with that amount of ends?’ the guy paused and begun laughing ‘Anyway the dude ended up jumping out of the back of the plane! I don’t know about you guys, but he’s a badass. I believe he could be the modern day Jay Gatsby, from the simple fact that no one has any REAL records on this D.B Cooper guy. Odd thing is the fuzz couldn’t even correctly identify him when came in the airport. This guy jumped out of the plane with a suit and loafers on. I have a feeling this dude really needed money for Black Friday, he’s my

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