"So you must...Sky, are you even listening to me?!"
"Yes Daddy," Sky replied distractedly.
The doorbell rang.
"Don't worry about it, go get the door," her father instructed.
"Yes Daddy," she said skipping off.
The door opened with a creak and nobody was there. She closed the door but the doorbell rang again. She opened the door and still there was nobody there.
Just as she was about to shut the door again a voice called out to her.
"Hello Sky," and Sky never got to see her father again.
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The T.V. droned on and on in the background as Saffron considered her theory. The voices told her she was right but she just sat there thinking. Saffron enjoyed thinking. She always did since nobody ever dared talk to her.
"HE IS SPEEDING UP!" The T.V. blasted out at Saffron. "THE RAINBOW THEIF HAS STOLEN ANOTHER CHILD. THAT IS TWO GIRLS IN LESS THAN AN HOUR. SKY STEVENS WAS TAKEN LESS THAN TWENTY MINUTES AGO!"
Saffron tested it with her theory:
Ruby red
Sunset orange
Lemon yellow
Emerald green and
Sky blue.
They where all colours.
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Coloured Rain
Short StoryRuby looked through the peep hole on the front door of hers and her mums flat. There was nobody there. She slowly opened the door. It seemed to creak with agony as she tugged at it. Ruby looked out on the hallway outside her house. Still she saw not...
