I awoke to the hienous blast of scremo in my right ear. My friend Amanda laughed as she turned the digraceful noise off. Feeling slightly mollified I asked, "Are we there yet?"
She nodded and immediately turned on to a completly unfamiliar street called University Avenue. Amanda lives in Morgantown which is about an hour and 15minutes from the school we attend. We had decided to relocate to her house for the week since classes were cancelled due to renovations in all the buildings. As I mused over the slightly perplexing problem of remembering how to get back the way we had come, Amanda suddenly slammed on the brakes throwing us into a spin! Thankfully we managed not to strike any of the surrounding vehicles or pedestrians. When we finally spun to a stop I took a moment to thank the good Lord above for the gift of life. In the next moment I planned Amanda's death as I turned to glare at her in the small space allowed in her Pinto. Taking into account the recent disruption of sleep, and now the ridiculously close brush with certain death, I used a patented, "When I can breath again..." glare; estimated 9.7 in strength.
Unfortunately the deadly look was wasted on her, since she was staring, as was every pedestrian and automobile operator, whose vehicles were now stopped, at a manwhole in the center of the road. The cover was trembling frantically, as though it would burst with fear of what it held prisoner. A dark steam escaped from the edges and was collecting in an eerie cloud right above the manwhole.
Suddenly and in quite the Charlie's Angel fashion, the cover exploded into the air and the very ground trembled beneath us. The once thin steam became a thick mass of darkness. It climbed higher into the air and abruptly a flash of green light blinded me. When I regained my sight I stared in horror, the green now swirling with the black all around me, and felt the moisture vacate even the recesses of my mouth, as my mind completed only one thought before I lost consciousness, "I'm not going to get my homework finished."
-Contributing Author, Talia Blankenship
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