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Creative Writing: The Cranks

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There is a loud ringing and his head pounds. He didn't know what was going on. He opens his eyes slightly, hissing at the bright lights. He wasn't dead. That much he could tell, because if he was dead... why would everything hurt so much? He braced himself for the pain opening his eyes would bring, thinking about where he could be and what had happened because he should have been dead. He slowly opened his eyes, refusing to close them again because he didn't want to revisit that pain. He looked around as far as he could without moving. He was in a completely white room. It wasn't a room he recognized, he noted as he sat up. He continued looking around, his eyes falling a female, sitting not too far from his bed. She was dressed in all white …show more content…

He stepped inside the damp tunnels, the coolness sweeping over him and he almost sighed in relief because even a short trek through the scorch was way too hot for him. He accidentally scraped his foot on the ground and cursed quietly as he ducked into a ticket booth, hoping that the Cranks weren't smart enough to actually look for him. He held his breath as he heard the Cranks run by quite loud. Once the sounds stopped, he got up, wearily. He was about to leave when he heard a bunch of noises, but htey didn't belong to the Cranks. What did they belong to then? It sounded like voices, but that couldn't be. Surely if there were voices the Cranks would have killed the people and Cranks can't talk. Another voice joined the noise and it was one that he recognized. Was that... Jorge? That didn't make any sense. Where was it coming from? He looked around before he saw a crack in the wall right in front of him. It lead to another room with dark lights. He cautiously stepped forward, walking through the crack and made his way towards the black curtain. There were two guards outside the curtain and he had a strange feeling that this was a

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