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The white teddy bear
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The letter carried brief instructions: 'Meet me at the corner of the street', it read. But who was it from? I looked around the corner and peeked to see if someone was there. But I saw no one. The darkness from the alley behind gripped my ankles and paralysed me on the spot. My heart beat raced faster and I couldn't move because of fear.
As I stood there, on the wet concrete floor outside a warm looking bakery, infront of a dark alley, I tried to decrypt the message. The handwriting, how curved the loops were, and how there was a small flick at the the end of every a and d. The letters slanted ever so slightly towards the left, and the writing was small and petite. So familiar and so strange. The paper was brown and small, with a coffee stain on one...
The letter carried brief instructions: 'Meet me at the corner of the street', it read. But who was it from? I looked around the corner and peeked to see if someone was there. But I saw no one. The darkness from the alley behind gripped my ankles and paralysed me on the spot. My heart beat raced faster and I couldn't move because of fear.
As I stood there, on the wet concrete floor outside a warm looking bakery, infront of a dark alley, I tried to decrypt the message. The handwriting, how curved the loops were, and how there was a small flick at the the end of every a and d. The letters slanted ever so slightly towards the left, and the writing was small and petite. So familiar and so strange. The paper was brown and small, with a coffee stain on one...
