The Legend Of Columbus: A Short Narrative

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Alexis and I were driving through a wooded empty section of a highway after visiting my sister in Columbus. Lighting flashed, thunder roared, the sky went dark in a downpour. “We'd better stop”, said Alexis. I nodded in agreement. I stepped on the brake, and suddenly the car started to slide on the slick pavement. We plunged off the road and slid to the bottom of a ditch. Pale and shaking, I quickly turned to check if `Alexis was all right. When she nodded, I relaxed and looked through the rain soaked windows. “I’m going to see how bad it is”, I told Alexis, and when out into the storm. Alexis saw my blurry figure in the headlight, walking around the front of the car. A moment later, I jumped in beside her, soaking wet. “The car's not…show more content…
There would be no quick rescue here. I told Alexis to turn off the headlights and lock the doors until I returned. Outside the car, Alexis heard a shriek, a loud thump, and a strange gurgling noise. But she couldn't see anything in the darkness. Frightened, she shrank down into her seat. She sat in silence for a while, and then she noticed another sound. Bump.Bump.Bump. It was a soft sound, like something being blown by the wind. Suddenly, the car was illuminated by a bright light. An official sounding voice told her to get out of the car. I found a police officer. Alexis unlocked the door and stepped out of the car. As her eyes adjusted to the bright light, she saw it. Hanging by his feet from the tree next to the car was a body of a man. His bloody throat had been cut so deeply that he was nearly decapitated. The wind swung his corpse back and forth so that it thumped against the tree. Bump. Bump. Bump. As Alexis screamed and ran toward the car to go find me. When she was trying to start the car I knocked on the window. I scared her and when she saw me, she gave me a hug. I asked her “Whats wrong”. She said “ I saw this man hung by his feet from the tree, I just want to get out of

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