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  • Story Listed as: Fiction For Adults
  • Theme: Action & Adventure
  • Subject: Death / Heartbreak / Loss
  • Published: 10/04/2011

Something to Fear

By Dorsey Baker
Born 1949, M, from NLR /Arkansas, United States
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Alice had become bored with life; so she decided she'd get in her car; drive out to the edge of the woods, jump out of her car and run deep into the woods after dark! In the woods there were many dangerous animals and insects! There were bears; there were deer; there were wild hogs; there were snakes; big and small. Spiders of every kind. There were so many dangers in the woods. "When you're in the woods, you're in a very dangerous place!" she said. Alice wanted to be in a dangerous place. She was hoping that she would run into something horrible; something that would scare the heck out of her! The woods was a place that could cause harm or death! And she was determined that in these woods she would find life or she would find death! Alice jumped out of her car and ran wildly into the dark woods, shouting these words as she ran, "While out here in these dark woods, I might come face to face with death; Then I'll know I'm alive again!"

Something to Fear(Dorsey Baker) Alice had become bored with life; so she decided she'd get in her car; drive out to the edge of the woods, jump out of her car and run deep into the woods after dark! In the woods there were many dangerous animals and insects! There were bears; there were deer; there were wild hogs; there were snakes; big and small. Spiders of every kind. There were so many dangers in the woods. "When you're in the woods, you're in a very dangerous place!" she said. Alice wanted to be in a dangerous place. She was hoping that she would run into something horrible; something that would scare the heck out of her! The woods was a place that could cause harm or death! And she was determined that in these woods she would find life or she would find death! Alice jumped out of her car and ran wildly into the dark woods, shouting these words as she ran, "While out here in these dark woods, I might come face to face with death; Then I'll know I'm alive again!"

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