... like a rich red color. I touch the walls; they feel wet and cold. I look and I see blood everywhere. I have to stop as I hear a really loud screeching noise and a wall appears in front of me. In big letters, I read HUNGER written on that wall. I look to my left and the wall that was there is now gone. ... out of this maze. I feel my knees getting weaker by the minute. I do not know how much longer I can take the heat. Suddenly, I hear the screeching noise again. Another wall closes in front of me with BURN written on it. A door to my left opens. The map has changed once more. I hear a cr...

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... July. So we went back to trying to grab the bird and thought nothing of it. Bang, bang, bang! I startled again and this time I looked up to see what the noise really is. It turned out to be a sound of a gunfire that was coming from the bottom of the street from a brown, dirty, graffiti apartment. I see a man in black jeans and ... a plastic bag. I assume it would be the bullet shells. The hard part was finding all of the bullet shells because across the street is my friends house. It's a big white house white house with a big lawn. The grass was dead and there were so many dead weeds th...

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... in darkness, in a type of hell I never knew could exist on earth. I heard water dripping like the sound of a leaking faucet and I tried to sit up to see where the noise was coming from. Immediately, my head pounded as the blood rushed from my head back into my body, my limbs. I was overcome with nausea and so dizzy I couldn't have possibly ... look at me, his eyes scanned my body stopping at my chest and continuing down to my hips. I suddenly realized that I have been changed from my patrol uniform into a thin white slip that clung to my body because of the sweat. He laughed softly when...

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