The Road Monologue

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Scene one(exposition): As the snowflakes fall onto my face I continue to walk to my home with my friend Georgia when we suddenly hear a screaming burglary alarm going off. I rushed over to the nearby house to discover a broken window I tried to pick up some of the glass but sliced my finger like an onion whiles doing so. Georgia and I continued to the front of the house to go inside and see what was going on when "thump,thump,thump" we heard footsteps. We ran to the back to catch the stranger but all we saw was the motorcycle he drove and the tracks in the snow his ride left behind.

Scene two(describing character): As I looked around the house to see what things had been taken Georgia applied her black tube of lipstick to her pink

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