rdfs:comment | - It was a sunny, merry Friday, in the afternoon. I was around 12 or 13 at the time. So, you would know that normally boys my age would either be outside hanging out with friends, playing sports and the such, right? Right. This time it was different. I was hanging out with three of my best friends. Nathan, Rob and Jim. We had just gotten out of school. And this one clearly smelt like death. Nathan said, "Snap out of it, Jay, it's going to rain or something soon, so we need to get to the park, quickly!" It was gone. It simply wasn't where it was before anymore.
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abstract | - It was a sunny, merry Friday, in the afternoon. I was around 12 or 13 at the time. So, you would know that normally boys my age would either be outside hanging out with friends, playing sports and the such, right? Right. This time it was different. I was hanging out with three of my best friends. Nathan, Rob and Jim. We had just gotten out of school. Now, my school was a big, three story building, with a huge football field and a track, and it was located right next to a big avenue. We decided it would be fun if we could walk to the park and play some basketball there. Except, this time, we decided it would be faster for us to take a shortcut, instead of having to walk in the Avenue. The shortcut was a simple, 10 minute walk through a small hill and a cemetery. My friends and I started going up the hill, and in a few minutes, we were inside the cemetery. Something felt a bit.. odd, though. The sunny afternoon had suddenly become greyer, and I felt a strange feeling. At the time, I was very sensitive to all kinds of smells and feelings, and I knew what each one smelt and felt like. And this one clearly smelt like death. Now, you may think it would be obvious for me to smell death in a cemetery, after all dead people are buried there, but this smell was stronger, more ancient, and it had something else to it, something I couldn't understand.. Nathan said, "Snap out of it, Jay, it's going to rain or something soon, so we need to get to the park, quickly!" I shook it off, and continued to walk until we were in the cemetery fence. There, we crawled through a small hole to get through. The park was just straight ahead from us. I was the last one, but before I began crawling, I felt a presence from behind. I quickly turned around, and there, I saw a gigantic, red-eyed growling black dog. It was almost as tall as me, and his legs were packed with enough muscle to outrun any of us. I slowly tried to calm it by reaching out to it gently. Immediately, the dog reacted and almost bit my hand. I then turned around and ran for the hole. All my friends yelled for me to go to them quickly, as the dog was not too far behind me. I squeezed through the hole right in time, but it wasn't over yet. The dog forced his way through the hole. My friends and I ran, the dog not too far behind. We then slid down the hill the cemetery sat on, and ran across the street. I turned around. It was gone. It simply wasn't where it was before anymore.
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