Into The Wild Short Story

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Chapter 1 – Liam Me and Stiles are in the woods looking for a dead body that Stiles’ dad told him about (Stiles’ dad is the sheriff of Green hills, where we live). We got separated in the dark, and I was left to wander around. After about half an hour I tripped over something and dropped my asthma inhaler, whilst I was searching for it my hand touched something cold and clammy. I looked up in horror and saw not just a dead body but half of one, my gaze shifted from the bones sticking out of the body, to the slash marks so deep I could see the muscles underneath the skin, then to the blood and guts splattered over the pale lifeless skin. I realised what I had just seen and I cried out and stumbled back tripping over a tree root and tumbling down the hill falling into a puddle of blood (that had run downhill from the mutilated girl) and mud, I writhed around for a bit trying to get out of the puddle. …show more content…

Slowly I turned around, and I saw it, it looked like a wolf with longer legs and a more human nose and jaw line, with less hair on the face, but the similarity’s ended there, it had long canines that protruded just above the top lip, and though the nose was human there was permanent snarl lines just above the nose, the eyes were mad and red, but the most terrifying thing was when it smiled at me and that was what snapped me out of

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