Write An Excerpt From 'The Cop': A Short Story

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The car moved down the empty riverbed streets and off away, leaving the empty streets with the empty sidewalks and no sound and no motion all the rest of chilly November night. Mr. Mead saw all the country houses past and he wondered where the cop was going to take him.
Mr. Mead asked the cop “where we were going” The cop mumbled “to the desert haha”
Mr. Mead couldn’t hear him because the muffler of the car was too loud.
Mr. Mead asked “Could you repeat that?”
The cop shouted at the top of his lunges “No where! Now shush up.”
Mr. Mead learned by not ask any questions ever again. Mr. Mead fell asleep, when he awoke when the sun was rising and shining bright into the window. He figured it must be around 6:30 in the morning because that’s usually when the sun rises in the city. He saw the desert to the left and to the right of him. Mr. Mead was starting to get scared and he didn’t what to do. There was no one to call and nothing he could do to stop the cop. After getting his train of thought back, he finally realized that the car started to slow down. The cop mysteriously started to ask Mr. Mead a whole bunch of questions about his family.
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Mead
“Do you mind me asking how did she die?” asked the cop
“She died by having an anxiety attack,” weeped Mr. Mead “Her mother always hated me and she never invited her mother to the wedding and she got so nervous she had the an anxiety attack and she died at the wedding rehearsal.”
Mr. Mead realized the cop car was slowing down again. The cop finally turned left into an old abandoned house. He thought they must have been traveling for a day and a half. There was black, skinny cats running around, and black crows circling the house. Mr. Mead didn’t know what to think about the whole thing.
He carefully asked the cop, “What is this

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