We Re The Killers Short Story

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Hadley Atnip
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We're the Killers
Mary Ruth had been alive for one hundred and two years. She knew things she shouldn't know. She also knew how to keep her mouth shut.
When Mary Ruth was a young woman, she was extremely nice. In 1991, she went to a university called Karman University. She later joined the sorority called Narwhals School for Nasties. Even though she was nice, she was not very appealing. People actually called her Hester, because nobody liked her. She joined the sorority in May of 1993. The dean, Dean Router, was really nice to Hester, but she knew that something was different about her. Even though she wore a neck brace, because of severe scoliosis, she could tell that there was a lot of
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Coffee donkey, get the hint and go get the drink that I want."
After Mike was finished with Kierstin's drink, she replied.
"Yuck! You burned the milk! Learn how to make coffee."
She was what you would call a major bully. The first time Hester ever saw Kierstin, Kierstin was so mean, that Hester went and got a match, and burned Kierstin's hair. She had to go get it cut, because it was so embarrassing that, even the nasties were making fun of her. Behind closed doors Hester was a little psychotic freak. Since she was born, she had been planning something that was so awful, not even Adolf Hitler could top it.
Hester skipped her first classes of the day, to plan the ultimate revenge. Kierstin never went to class. She went to the mall every Tuesday and Thursday. It was a Thursday. She walked through the front door. Kierstin was walking up the massive staircase, when she got to the top of the stairs, she started screaming horribly. It was Mike the coffee guy with a knife lunged half way through his face.
She looked over to her left in horror. She saw someone in the shadow. It was Hester. Hester walked toward Kierstin with a knife in her right hand. She told Kierstin.
"I have waited 7 years for this day. You killed my mother. And my sister and

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