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Mar 16, 2026 at 10:17am
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GOALS: Outline a story about overcoming fear.
This will be a short story about a widow who has never lived alone before the death of her husband and her irrational fears of someone breaking in her home at night, The reader sees her mental illness (excessive, unrealistic fear) and her ability to use her mental illness to feel safe.
!. Describe her first night alone, crazy fears and fantasies.
2. Second, third nights
3. Taking advice from a therapist to get an alarm system, dead-bolts, a dog, etc but she can always think of ways some homicidal maniac could overcome all to these.
3. Weeks later, deprived of sleep and having hallucinations, she hallucinates the story's conclusion.
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GOALS: Outline a story about overcoming fear. · 03-16-26 10:17am
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