The Assassination Of Kyle's Story

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Kyle was a normal man until the year of 1896 when a solar eclipse suddenly happened. On the day of the solar eclipse in 1998, Kyle bought a umbrella for a strange man. The man replied, “When it rains hard don’t invite a person under the umbrella.” Kyle thought what the man replied. He ignored the man. He thought the man was crazy. One day it was raining out Kyle was walking to work with his new umbrella that he bought. A woman was standing in the rain waiting for the bus. Kyle was also waiting for the bus, so he offered the women his umbrella. While the women was under the umbrella with him they started to talk, the women replied her name was Samantha, but Sam for short. They both noticed that the rain was falling harder than before she got under the umbrella. Sam did not see the umbrella starting to get bigger, but Kyle did. When Kyle tried to tell Sam that the umbrella was moving, Kyle found that he couldn’t talk or move, but Sam noticed that he was acting different. When Sam tried to move, the umbrella got even bigger than before. . Few years later …show more content…

Tatum and her friends had to choose a path. Tatum went on trail one while her other friends went on trail three. Tatum was starting to get scared by the growing darkness of the sky she looked at her watch to see what time it was, it is only 10:15 am. When she watched the weather, it was not going to rain until monday the next week. Tatum saw there was a man standing next to a broken building. Tatum started to turn and leave but a very dry throat called out, “It is about to run why don’t I walk you back to your

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