Alex Barnes-Auld from Mr Canning's II form set wrote a tense story called 'Shadows' in prep. It starts:
Walking down a dimly light road in the middle of a city with not a soul in sight does kind of scare me a little. The black tarmac with long gashes stripping it of smoothness and replacing it with holes and dips. The massive skyscrapers reaching out into the clouds like a hand reaching for the jar at the top of the shelf. That last office light clicking for the last time until the next morning. The silence is louder than a bustling crowd. The moon sitting comfortably in the sky. A massive eye watching us during the night...
Walking down a dimly light road in the middle of a city with not a soul in sight does kind of scare me a little. The black tarmac with long gashes stripping it of smoothness and replacing it with holes and dips. The massive skyscrapers reaching out into the clouds like a hand reaching for the jar at the top of the shelf. That last office light clicking for the last time until the next morning. The silence is louder than a bustling crowd. The moon sitting comfortably in the sky. A massive eye watching us during the night...
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