So it's been a while since I've posted anything seriously literature related, (not like anyone would know that, but whatever takes the tears away right?) but I thought I would grace this blog with a little October sophistication. I have an awesome new English teacher who has us do a lot of cool writing, so there will probably be more where this came from.
Anyways, I had a hard time thinking of what to write about, I knew I couldn't do anything too scary because I would keep my self up at night. This idea came really randomly: basically we have a board game version of 'would you rather', and on the box, one of the sample questions is: "In the circus, would you rather be the person who the knife thrower throws at or the person who sticks their head in the lion's mouth?" So naturally I thought "what about a horror story about a haunted board game?!" this idea being a little too Jumanji, I went to "spooky knife thrower story" by default.
When I was writing my first draft of this tale, it started off a little different. In the original version, the assistant wore a fake arm during a performance and when the knife thrower threw, he moved it in the path of the blade so that the knife thrower would look bad. Then in the confusion of the crowd up-roaring, the knife thrower took a horse and went riding off into the night. The mist being thick, the knife thrower was going to fall off a cliff and die only to go back and haunt his assistant. This is about as far as I got because I figured that the knife thrower was way too nice to haunt anyone.
Anyways, after days of grammar and spelling error corrections, I finally got the final copy done. (not on time, unfortunately, I have to turn it in with a rain check :P)
ENJOY!
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