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Neighborhood Mayhem Brian broke his arm 10 times in his old job as a stuntman. After years of travelling the world like a rockstar Brian now lives alone in a small house in sleepy suburb of Summer Heights. Brian loves to garden, listen to the birds and watch his favourite team the Sydney Kings basketball team live on television. Summer Heights has a sweet smell like strong perfume. Every garden in Brian’s street had an old white jasmine bush so maybe that’s why the air smelled so delightful. One night Brian heard a strange noise to the side of his house where the new neighbour had moved in. 80 firecrackers loudly exploded to celebrate his new neighbours 80th birthday but Brian didn’t move from the comfort of his couch. Instead upon hearing all the noise Brian closed his curtains and turned up the television volumes so he could hear his insane basketball game. Through the window curtain gaps Brian could see 80 candles on a 80th birthday cake which unbeknown to him almost started a fire but Brian still continued ignored the outside world to concentrate on his basketball game. Brian thinks the smell of the 80 candles burning is instead his bbq hotdogs cooking on the ...

793.8 PLEASE READ THIS IF I GO MISSING. Diary Entry - 31st of October 2014 8.30 pm Hello I’m a scientist. My name is Stephen Simon Smith and I heard about this haunted paranormal library called the NSW State Library. There’s supposed to be a secret book in the shelves that tells you all of the secrets about this historical library and the secret book is supposed to only show up at night. At night the sandstone brick library has a green glow on the inside that can actually be seen through the windows from the outside. It looks like a scene from Ghostbusters if they went to investigate a ghost at the library. Dairy Entry – 31st of October 2014 8.45pm I’m inside the building and I don’t see anything weird at all. This should be a piece of cake. You know what……I take back all the words about this being a piece of cake. There are hundreds if not thousands of books, but the book I’m looking for is very different from the others so it’s not a ‘win, win’ for me but instead it’s a ‘win, lose’. Finding this secret book is going to take me forever! Diary Entry – 31st of October 2014 9.00pm After one hour of searching randomly in the Non- Fiction section of the ...

SHIPWRECKED Bob and his three headed pet goat Rego landed on the island after seven stormy days at sea. The ship had sunk to the bottom of the sea and Bob and Rego had to swim 8km to just to get to the island. They were both feeling exhausted and were only able to salvage a soggy tomato and lettuce sandwich, a wet notebook, a leaky pen and an empty wine bottle from the shipwreck. Bob lay on the sticky wet sand with Rego as the powerful ocean current pushed them both towards the safety of the island. Bob and Rego needed to find shelter, food and water. They drag themselves off the sand and spy two vicious birds as large as a pterodactyls looking for prey in the palm trees. Without any weapons to fight the birds off Bob is scared. Bob looked around the island and found a dead man lying near a large birds nest. Bob thought he might be the birds next victim. He used the dead mans crisp white shirt to quickly make a knife using only Origami. A technique he learnt from his mother. “Oh no a bird,” says Bob dramatically. A wild bird chases Bob and corners him on the edge of a mountain. Bob tries to fight the bird off with Rego but when they loose balance they both fall off ...