SAM WAS IN THE HOUSE DOING HIS CROSSWORD PUZZLE ALL OF A SUDDEN THERE WAS A KNOCK AT THE DOOR. SO SAM GOT UP TO ANSWER THE DOOR BUT WHEN HE GOT THERE NO ONE WAS THERE. BUT THERE WAS A NOTE THAT HAD BEEN STUCK TO THE DOOR BY BUBBLE GUM. THE NOTE READ, [IF YOU WANT YOUR DOG BACK COME TO THE ALLEY AT 42 STREET BE THERE BY MIDNIGHT AND BRING 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 DOLLARS OR ELSE... SO SAM GOT THE MONEY AND WENT TO THE ALLEY TO GET HIS DOG. WHEN SAM GOT THERE HE SAW A MAN WITH HIS 100,000,000 DOLLAR RACE DOG. SAM WALKED UP TO THE MAN WITH THE MONEY BUT THE MAN MADE HIM COUNT THE MONEY SO THE MAN COULD MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY WAS ALL THERE SO WHEN SAM WAS FINALLY FINISHED IT WAS THE NEXT DAY. SO THE MAN WAS HAPPY AND TOOK THE MONEY AND RAN. BY THE TIME SAM GOT BACK HIS WIFE AND KIDS WERE LOOKING FOR HIM AND THEY WERE SO MAD THAT THEY MADE HIM SLEEP IN THE BASEMENT THAT NIGHT. BUT WHEN SAM GOT UP THE NEXT MORNING HIS DOG WAS GONE AGAIN AND THE SAME NOTE WAS LEFT THERE AT THE DOOR. THIS TIME HIS FAMILY WAS THERE TO SEE THE NOTE AND THEY SAID THAT THEY WANTED TO GO WITH HIM THAT NIGHT SO THEY COULD MAKE SURE THAT HE DID NOT GET HURT. WHEN HE GOT THERE THE SAME MAN WAS STANDING THERE WITH THE SAME CLOTHES AND EVERYTHING. SAM SAW THE DOG AND AND GOT UP AND PUNCHED THE MAN BUT INSTEAD OF FALLING THE MAN BECAME STONE. BUT SUDDENLY THERE WAS A BANG AT THE DOOR OF THE CAR WHICH WAS ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STREET WITH HIS FAMILY IN IT HE LOOKED OVER AND THE CAR WAS GONE SAM RAN OVER AND LOOKED AROUND BUT THERE WAS NO SIGHT OF THE CAR. SAM GOT WORRIED AND FILED A REPORT.
I thought the all caps was a nice touch so I left it in. Sam must have been real worried to file a report. I'd like to say I'm going to finish this story--some 15 years later--but I think it's out of my league.
