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A bright light hits Richard’s eyes and he finds himself at the front door outside his house. He
looked at his watch and panic struck him, it was just 10 minutes before the show ended. He
had been cheated! There was so little time! He rang the doorbell but there was no response.
He went in using the spare key taped below the mailbox and quietly crept into the house. The
TV was playing at full volume and he could see himself sitting in front of the TV unaware of
his impending death. Unbeknownst to Richard, in the alley behind his house, an unforeseen
situation was unfolding. A murderer with a bloody knife was running frantically trying to
escape a cop with a pistol in his hand, hot on his trail. The murderer saw the open door of
Richard’s house and sneaked inside and hid under the stairs in the passageway. Hearing these
footsteps, Dead Richard went over there to investigate. He saw a dark silhouette holding a
pistol in his hand entering from the main door. He knew that if he didn’t act soon, the original
Richard was going to die. Without thinking too much, he pounced upon the person and the
pistol went off and hit the original Richard right through the wooden door. Dead Richard
stepped over the cop he had just knocked out and
rushed towards the living room and opened the door, only to see himself clutching his heart
with blood gushing out of it. The sound of the TV distorted and died out. Dead Richard knew
it was over and that he himself had been the cause of his death. He could only hear the
devious laugh of the Goblin resonating inside his head.

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