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A twisted family
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I twisted the plot and changed the genre from horror to family drama . Hope you'll like it.
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The streetlights were dim as the mist enclosed it in its mysterious grip. She peered out of her window into the darkness, was there someone out there or was it her imagination? Then she heard her mom calling ,"sweetie! are you still awake , you should go to sleep now."
She dimmed the lights , crawled into her bed , but she couldn't fall asleep . That figure was running through her head, she thought , "why did that feel so familiar?". She tried to drift off to sleep , counting sheep's , but after every sheep that figure was running. she screamed,"get out."
A knock was heard on the door , it's her mom asking what happened , if someone was there. She continued , "sweetie ! what's happening , I am coming in."
There she was sitting on her bed holding her head in her palms in frustration. Her mom came close , sat near her , wrapped her right arm around her shoulder and said, "having trouble sleeping again , huh?"as the girl rested her head on her mother's lap. She sat there patting her until she drifted off to sleep.
The next morning in the kitchen, the single mom is preparing breakfast while thinking , "these days Julie can't fall asleep without me , and who does she want to get out , from where , something is definitely going on , I must...". Then a doorbell interrupts her , she walks through the corridor while cleaning her hands , it's the milkman. She takes it and goes insides , her 11 year old daughter is up and is waiting for her breakfast. She serves the breakfast. while they eat , Maria asks her daughter , "what's happening lately? Why can't you fall asleep? What's bothering you?" Julie says,"mom don't worry , I'll be fine , you already have a lot .." . Her mom interrupts while losing her temper, "stop it, nothing is more important than you , you are all I've got , so just tell me your problem." Julie is startled because she has never seen her mom this worried and tense , she decides to explain. She goes, "Mom , a week ago , there was a man standing on the street ,looking at our house , then it went away , but it felt so familiar , it has been running through my mind everytime I tried to sleep. and yesterday again a figure appeared and I think it is the same one as before."
Marie is troubled , it seems like a potential harm, but what exactly was it? She can't even file a report just because a stranger passed by her house and looked at it. She thinks , "but it feels familiar to Sweetie." Then Julie grabs her apron and said ," mom it's fine , I won't trouble you anymore." The thought slowly faded away , after a few days Julie was alright. Marie was holding a cup of coffee, it was still hot , she blowed it , took a sip and thought , "Maybe I was stressing over nothing."
A month has passed by and everything is normal until , the doorbell rings . It is a shady person but she recognized him. She opens the door , and asks ,"What business do you have here?" The man ignores her and steps in the house...
I twisted the plot and changed the genre from horror to family drama . Hope you'll like it.
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The streetlights were dim as the mist enclosed it in its mysterious grip. She peered out of her window into the darkness, was there someone out there or was it her imagination? Then she heard her mom calling ,"sweetie! are you still awake , you should go to sleep now."
She dimmed the lights , crawled into her bed , but she couldn't fall asleep . That figure was running through her head, she thought , "why did that feel so familiar?". She tried to drift off to sleep , counting sheep's , but after every sheep that figure was running. she screamed,"get out."
A knock was heard on the door , it's her mom asking what happened , if someone was there. She continued , "sweetie ! what's happening , I am coming in."
There she was sitting on her bed holding her head in her palms in frustration. Her mom came close , sat near her , wrapped her right arm around her shoulder and said, "having trouble sleeping again , huh?"as the girl rested her head on her mother's lap. She sat there patting her until she drifted off to sleep.
The next morning in the kitchen, the single mom is preparing breakfast while thinking , "these days Julie can't fall asleep without me , and who does she want to get out , from where , something is definitely going on , I must...". Then a doorbell interrupts her , she walks through the corridor while cleaning her hands , it's the milkman. She takes it and goes insides , her 11 year old daughter is up and is waiting for her breakfast. She serves the breakfast. while they eat , Maria asks her daughter , "what's happening lately? Why can't you fall asleep? What's bothering you?" Julie says,"mom don't worry , I'll be fine , you already have a lot .." . Her mom interrupts while losing her temper, "stop it, nothing is more important than you , you are all I've got , so just tell me your problem." Julie is startled because she has never seen her mom this worried and tense , she decides to explain. She goes, "Mom , a week ago , there was a man standing on the street ,looking at our house , then it went away , but it felt so familiar , it has been running through my mind everytime I tried to sleep. and yesterday again a figure appeared and I think it is the same one as before."
Marie is troubled , it seems like a potential harm, but what exactly was it? She can't even file a report just because a stranger passed by her house and looked at it. She thinks , "but it feels familiar to Sweetie." Then Julie grabs her apron and said ," mom it's fine , I won't trouble you anymore." The thought slowly faded away , after a few days Julie was alright. Marie was holding a cup of coffee, it was still hot , she blowed it , took a sip and thought , "Maybe I was stressing over nothing."
A month has passed by and everything is normal until , the doorbell rings . It is a shady person but she recognized him. She opens the door , and asks ,"What business do you have here?" The man ignores her and steps in the house...
