One final procrastinated assignment, with less than twenty-five minutes before class (and I still need to drive there, too): Write at least three additional sentences continuing the idea expressed in each of the following:
1. I don’t know why I always run outside when lightning flashes and I can smell the ozone in the air. Maybe it’s because… I read too many books when I was a kid, and I expect to see Zeus hurling his thunderbolts. Or maybe it reminds me of fireworks. Whatever the reason, it’s a habit that’s hard to break, even if I end up dripping wet and shivering when I get back in the house.
2. He had waited for over four hours for another car to come along this deserted stretch of highway. … Now he saw some headlights off in the distance, and he stretched his arms and shook himself back to full alertness. He needed to flag this driver down, convince him to stop to help. Once the car was stopped, that would give him the opening he needed. He patted the pistol in his coat pocket to make sure it was still there.
3. “You don’t have a clue who I am, do you?” the girl asked. …
I shook my head. “Sorry.”
“Good.” She flashed me a bright smile.
4. Arthur Powell leaned back with a sigh of satisfaction. What a joke — what a wonderful joke this document he had just signed and duped three of the servants into witnessing! … The real will was, of course, with his solicitor. But if Ernest decided to do a little snooping around during the night, he’d be in for a real shock. It would serve him right for getting himself involved with that peasant-girl.