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Personal Narrative Fiction

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It all started like any other Saturday. Sarah was still sleeping and Barry was mowing the lawn. But then things went a bit off track. The next thing Barry knew he was being held to the ground by an older man with a pistol. Barry gulped as he said, “Please I have a family!” But at this point, it was too late. BANG! Darkness quickly went over Barry’s eyes, as he lost consciousness. The man stood up, and immediately headed for the house. Bingo, the back door was unlocked. He peeked his head inside and looked around, and the coast was clear. Or at least he thought it was. Sarah was upstairs the entire time. She woke up from the gunshot, and looked out the window to see a strange man walking towards the house, and her husband’s …show more content…

Sarah had told them before that he came through the back door, and Jackson got an idea. He pulled out a kit of some kind that had some powder, a brush, and a piece of clear paper. “Might I ask what you’re doing?” said Sarah.” “I’m looking for fingerprints on the door handle.” After a few minutes he held it up to a light and smiled at Sarah. “We’ll take this back to the barracks, and give you the results in the morning.” Then he wrote his name and phone number on a piece of paper and handed it to Sarah. The next morning Sarah woke up to her ringtone, and it was Jackson. “We have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that they were Barry’s fingerprints. And the good news there was a news report on a man that sold a diamond bracelet, for more than $12,000.” Sarah’s jaws hit the ground. When they were at her house yesterday she noticed that he got into her jewelry, and stole her diamond bracelet. She got it from Barry as a 10 year anniversary gift. “Does it say who sold it?” asked Sarah. “Um… it says his name is Rodney.” Sarah could feel her fists starting to clench. “Can you please come pick me up at my

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