Sweat Pours: A Narrative Fiction

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Sweat pours forth leading to dehydration. Heart rate speeds up the brain becomes addled making it difficult to think. They were losing Jenny to the scorching hot heat. Donna was about to lose hope when she thought that maybe she could break into one of the trailers hoping to find food or water. Donna thought, “What should I use to get them open?” Gina enthusiastically, “Do you know if there is anything in the car maybe Jenny and I could go get it for you?”

Donna thinking, “ Actually now that I think about it I do happen to have a hammer in the car.”

Donna walks very fast to the car smashes the window with a rock and gets the hammer. Donna then begins walking back to the trailer. With the hammer in her hand walks up to one of them

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