In the night, about 11p.m i went to my room
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In the night, about 11p.m i went to my room to sleep, when i was sleeping i smell something burning when i opened my eyes , i was shock to see a molten man , who was spraying fire
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And the smoke seems to be coming out from my neighbor's house , so I decided to go over and help .
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A few seconds later, I reached my neighbour's house. I was shocked to see that there is fire in the kitchen. I shouted for help
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. The apple pie was burning, along with the rest of the house, but my main concern was the pie! My neighbor made the best apple pies & it was just a cryin' shame this one was going
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to waste. What did she put in those pies, anyway? Prescription drugs? Eye of newt? Even with my pleading, she still wouldn't tell. Watching my house burn down, I knew it was a sign
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that I'd be out house-hunting again soon. I was real observant like that. The old crone cackled while the flames licked the roof, and the siding crinkled and crackled.
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Then the crone cackled again. Then she realized it was her house that was burning. "Oh nooooooo," screamed the old crone, "Not agaaaaaain." I laughed heartily.
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Her craggy left hand shot into my chest and retrieved my throbbing cardiac organ. The crone cradled it in her tender, grisly palm. I fell to my knees. The body is just a chassis I
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can change at will. I entered my heart held in the crone's hand. I beat furiously. I discovered I could make a kind of farting speech through my pulmonary and aortic valves.
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Yes, I am he...the very heart the old crone held...the tell-tale heart. And I am your conscience, beating beneath the floorboards. You hear me, don't you?
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- Started
- 2014-06-03 00:03:09
- Finished
- 2014-08-23 21:52:35
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Gibber Aug 23 2014 @ 22:09
Where's the fire? I'm so confused.
BlastedHeath Aug 28 2014 @ 19:56
Sorry about that!
Gibber Aug 28 2014 @ 20:01
Oh, I meant the molten man was in the narrator's house, but the neighbor's house was burning, then it was the narrator's house, then the crone realized it was her house and then, hmm yah, it just disappears.
SlimWhitman Feb 21 2017 @ 06:19
That telltale heart turns up in tale after tale, but is it the same heart? homicidal carolers http://foldingstory.com/054lv/ jeemo becomes his heart http://foldingstory.com/jeemo/