Stories tagged “florida”
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Murky Part II
She scratched her name into the dirt at a tree’s base with a stick: BREE. She frowned at it. The letters were crooked and one of the Es was bigger than the other. Bree had never been good at writing without lined paper. Still, the name was there. Thi...
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Murky Part III
She wondered how deep the swamp lagoon was and what she would name it. She liked rockets, so maybe she would call in Launchpad Lake. She told herself she could bring the spaceship she made out of a milk carton tomorrow and see if it would float. A ligh...
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Murky Part IV
In a moment of crisis people say that the brain switches into “fight or flight” mode. This means that as a large, monstrous Florida alligator was lunging out of the water toward nine-year-old Bree, its wide open mouth about the size of Bree’s ent...
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Murky Part V
Eventually the giant gator’s aggression settled and he sunk back into the lagoon. Bree used this opportunity to drop from the tree and make a quick exit. The next day, she brought a small yellow plastic box with her into the swamp . When she popp...