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Brand New Sam: Creative Text

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Brand New Sam Sam was going to die. Tree branches scratched his face as he ran. The snow seeped through his boots and socks and numbed the heels of his feet. He ducked behind a tree and pulled the revolver from his belt. The chamber popped open and six holes lay inside, each devoid of bullets. “Fuck.”    He put the gun back in its holster and continued to move. The tree line was just ahead, but Sam knew that about five meters behind it was the huge wall that cut the forest off from any kind of civilisation. If he got to that clearing, death awaited. He altered his direction and, as if fate wanted to spite him, his toe became lodged under the root of a tree and his face collided with snow. He heard crunches in the snow as someone made their way towards him. “Hello, Sammy,” Kay said behind him and Sam knew without turning around that he had a smug grin on his face.    He heard him cock his gun and in an instant he flipped onto his back and pulled out...

Envy: Creative Text

 Envy “We couldn’t have found somebody more perfect,” a man whispered behind the door. I was waiting with arms folded over my chest and leant against a wall. The two long queues in Limbo stretched into the distance and shuffled forwards bit by bit. I stood on my toes and tried to pinpoint the back of the line but it was useless. Had it been that long when I’d been standing in it? It had only seemed like a few minutes before I’d- The door opened, jolting me from my thoughts. A man walked out and sent a smile my way. “You can go in now.”                 I returned his smile as I walked through the door, avoiding the fat that levitated off him. His eyes were covered with two half-moon circles that caught the light of every lamp in Limbo and sat upon a nose that sat upon a moustache that could indeed have been mistaken for a caterpillar. He closed the door behind me and I turned around, surprised to ...