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The Open Window extract; a creepy feeling

An extract from the short story The Open Window; created for ELA practice.

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- [Narrator] Poor dear aunt, she has often told me how they went out, her husband with his white waterproof coat over his arm and Ronnie, her youngest brother, singing Birdie, Why Do You Bound, as he always did to tease her. Because she said it got on her nerves. Do you know, sometimes on still quiet evenings like this, I almost get a creepy feeling that they will all walk in through that window, she broke off with a little shudder. It was a relief to Frampton when aunt bustled into the room with a world of apologies for being late in making her appearance.