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'Bubble': A Short Story

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On July 4th, Bubble Eastbrook, a 28-year-old Oklahoma City native, was having an ordinary 4th of July, just like anyone else. Bubble was a man who looked like a real life Hercules, and he was tall as a giraffe. He was barbecuing with friends and family, waiting for nighttime to come and for the fireworks to begin. He was about to eat his hamburger when his wife told him that she forgot to by fireworks.
So he took his food with him, and went to buy some fireworks.
When he arrived to the fireworks stand, he heard some commotion going on in the parking lot, He overheard a man talking to about Devin Rurant saying that he hated Devin.’’ Bubble was curious, so he walked closer to the crowd to see what was going on. He went to go asked a woman nearby him,’’ What is going on?’’ and …show more content…

“There was to be a meeting today at 6:30 about his situation,’’ She told Bubbles.
So Eastbrook went to the meeting, because he wanted to see how Devin did his experiment. He forgot the fireworks, but he did not care about the fireworks because he wanted to go to the meeting. He got there on time, Devin was about to speak and he was going to talk about what he was doing, but then everybody in the crowed started to talk over

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