The Westing House Short Story

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The Westing House By: turtle Wexler or Savannah

I was about to take a huge leap. Entering the Westing house and coming back with money was all on my mind. In my head I was thinking… where the stories that happened in this mansion true? Two dollars a minute i thought. That would be a lot if I stayed in for twenty-five minutes, that would pay for a subscription to The Wall Street Journal. If I stayed in for an hour, they would owe me $120 each!!. Thats a lot of money! I want to show Doug and Theo that I am not afraid. I am not a chicken. Nothing will stand in my way, and I will do it. Well, only for the money. I will show them that i can conquer my fear. Although I have no fears. When I go into the Westing house I will just keep on walking through. I mean what could possible be in that mansion that would scare me? I mean come on! It hasn’t been touched in 15 years. Okay, of course I had to go in the Westing house when the
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The smell of old carcases filled my nose. I belched as the smell of rotten eggs filled my nose.. I went into a room upstairs, and to my horror i stood there paralyzed. I saw a dead man from the corner of my eye. Still mortified, I tried to focus on my breathing. That was just there to scare me, right? When I got the nerve to walk again, I walked closer to the dead man. He looked familiar.. It was not rotting, and it was not sprawled on a Oriental rug like in the movies. To my dismay, the dead man was tucked in a four-poster bed. He was whispering “Purple,purple” I was appalled. I held onto my witch cape and literally hurtled out of the Westing house.

Running all the way back to my apartment, I lay helplessly on the bed. My hand was covering my forehead and I kept on saying to myself “purple, purple” “turtle,turtle”. I still remembered that Otis, Sandy, Doug, and Theo owe me $48. In all, that’s almost a total of 200

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