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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk
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- p. 5
- 1 a b
- 2 (b) c
- 3 a b
- 4 b c
- 5 b c
- 6 a b
- 7 a c
- 8 a b
- 9 a c
- narrative present: use of the present tense to tell a story (even though the story happened in the past), usually in order to make listeners feel like they are there in that moment
- power trip
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- Homework: write a scary story.
- For ideas, you can use the two-sentence horror stories below, which were taken from a thread on Reddit (http://tinyurl.com/ovuwrp3).
- Choose one of the very short stories and expand it into a longer (1-2 pages) story by adding details about what happened before or after the events in the sentences.
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- When we bought the house I assumed the scratches on the inside of the basement door were from a dog, but this morning there were more of them.
- I always thought my cat had a staring problem--she always seemed fixated on my face. Until one day, when I realized that she was always looking just behind me.
- She asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn't.
- There's nothing like the laughter of a baby. Unless it's 1AM and you're home alone.
- A girl heard her mom yell her name from downstairs, so she got up and started to head donw. As she got to the stairs, her mom pulled her into her room and said, "I heard that, too."
- In all of the time I've lived alone in this house, I swear to God that I've closed more doors than I've opened.
- I woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, I thought it was the window until I heard it come from the mirror again.
- I just saw my reflection blink.
- I burned the dolls even though my children cried. They did not understand my fear because they assumed I was who moved the dolls into their beds each night.
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