Creative Writing: The Substitute

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her foraging and before long she had pulled from the bag a small black
box. Engraved with the letters P, O, and another letter that I could make
out were on the cover of the box. The final detail that I noticed about the
box was that there was a small socket on one side. After setting the box
down on the desk she took out more items from the bag, a gas mask and a box
of matches. The mask and the box snapped together and she placed the mask
over the face, then lit a match, opened the box, and lit whatever was in
there. Seconds later smoke filled the mask and excess smoke permeated from
the mask. We watched intently after a few moments of undisturbed silence
except for the occasional deep breaths taken by Miss. Vanderbong. It seemed
like a decade passed before we decided to see what had happened. Moving as
slow as the hand of the hour hand of a clock we approached her expecting
her to her jump up and ask us what we were doing in there. She seemed
disoriented and did not seem to ...

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