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The heavy body of Mr. Ross dragged across the dirt as the students struggled to carry him to his grave that has yet to be dug. It started to get harder to see as the sun slowly started to set. \u201cOh my my god oh my god oh my god\u201d cried Isabel as she pulled Mr. Ross\u2019s arm. \u201cStop whining, we\u2019re almost there,\u201d yelled Bobby as he gripped the shovel. His eyes were red and seemed so calm under these horrific circumstances. The smoke leaving his mouth was almost unnoticeable as it camouflaged with the mist. \u201cHow about you stop smoking your month\u2019s rent and help us carry Mr. Ross,\u201d mumbled Zoe as her glasses slid off of her nose. She lifted her glasses with shoulder and slid them back up; although they were of no use. It was impossible to see past a few meters. \u201cWhat was that, smartass?\u201d threatened Bobby gritting his teeth. As he approached Zoe, Sam let go of Mr. Ross\u2019s legs and stepped in between Bobby and Zoe. Hovering over Bobby, Sam glared at him and whispered, \u201cIf it wasn’t for your idea to put half your stash of pills in Mr. Ross\u2019s coffee, we would still be sitting in detention right now, and I would still have my football scholarship to UCLA, so you better help us hide this body before we have another corpse on our hands\u201d. Just when Bobby started to dig, Mr. Ross\u2019s hand slowly started to grab the grass. He groaned in pain and muttered, \u201cWhere am I? What have you kids done to me?\u201d. Not knowing whether to feel relief or fear, the children glared at each other in disbelief. Everyone then turned to Bobby waiting for his reaction. Bobby then knelt down towards Mr. Ross. Mr. Ross, confused and scared, said, \u201cBob, is that you?\u201d. Bobby then replied, \u201cYup, I wasn\u2019t expecting you to wake up again. This is for all of the crap you gave me all these years. This is for mom. Goodbye dad\u201d. Bobby then lifted his shovel and dropped it on Mr.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ross\u2019s head. A puddle of blood started forming on the ground of the forest, and slowly dripped into the unfinished grave.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The heavy body of Mr. Ross dragged across the dirt as the students struggled to carry him to his grave that has yet to be dug. It started to get harder to see as the sun slowly started to set. \u201cOh my my god oh my god oh my god\u201d cried Isabel as she pulled … Continue reading “The Wrong End of the Shovel\u00a0“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_ppma_block_editor_authors":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[38],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freewriting"],"authors":[{"term_id":38,"user_id":14,"is_guest":0,"slug":"rim-ziani","display_name":"Rim Ziani","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e98b36a92db4c26f25d61781429f44b346d9cc1d983500231ba6078436a8fa4b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"http:\/\/trove.aui.ma","last_name":"Ziani","first_name":"Rim","job_title":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":438,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trove.aui.ma\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fppma_author&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}