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A suspenseful story

‘His fingers squeezed around my throat, I felt myself starting to choke…’Using this first line as a starting point, continue this story remembering to use the same person (the first person pronoun) and write in the past tense.

(Make sure that you structure your story carefully, and you use the FIVE SENSES and FIVE Ws when describing people and places. Show evidence of planning.)

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