The Glass Bottle Short Story

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The Glass Bottle-
A Twist on Alice in Wonderland

Alice was walking through her backyard with her best friend Bree. They were talking about school that day.
“I had so much fun in art!” Alice exclaimed. “What did you do?” asked Bree. “We got to make clay sculptures,” Alice said. Then they started to talk about their favorite art projects they had done last year and projects they hoped to make this year. As they were walking through the yard they saw a white rabbit. Bree was still talking about art but Alice’s mind drifted off… ...Alice had a dream the night before about a white rabbit. Actually she has had the same dream since she was little. When she and her sister (Alice is adopted so they look nothing alike) were younger, and her sister
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“I am your true Queen and you know it! I will not drink that horrid thing!” The soldiers gave her a weird look. They pushed Alice closer and closer. Now that she was this close to the bottle she realized it was actually saying, “Open me”. Alice now recognized the voice and grabbed the bottle. She looked at it and engraved on the side was the phrase ‘Once it is locked inside only the one of the same blood can open it’. She could hear Robin yelling at her not to do it. But she had to. She was the only one who could open it now that it was shut. She unstoppered it and looked down in it. It was a spacious room with a cauldron in the middle. Then out floated two ghosts. They were the old King and Queen, Alice’s parents! Alice knew she shouldn’t have let them out but she did it anyway. Her parents had been trapped in there along with the worst and only poison in the kingdom. Just smelling it would drive you insane. Alice quickly re stoppered the bottle because she could feel her sanity slipping away. Her parents had been around it for over a decade so they were already mad. First they had been killed by it then they had to live with it. The old King was the first to

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