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I was walking down the street, wearing my cute new plaid A&F shorts. All of a sudden, it started pouring rain. It was lightning. Then I saw this restaurant called “The Starship”. I needed to get out of the rain so I walked inside. There was a man with a menu standing on the other side. He handed the menu to me and told me to follow him. There was no one else in the restaurant, but the man seated me in the very back. He had so many tatoos, there were even ink spiders crawling up his neck. When he left I looked at the strange menu. There was eel sushi, fried platypus, and kumquat soup. What a strange menu, I thought. I’m a vegetarian, so I ordered the kumquat soup. When the man brought the soup to me, it was bubbling and black. “Ummmm…. ” I began, but then the man started smiling. he reached into his back pocket and took at a knife. he was about to chop off my arm, but I got up and ran out of the restaurant as fast as I could. As I ran away, I heard the man call “Thank you for visiting, come again.”

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