A Short Story I Wrote For My Homework That I Liked

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THE CASK OF AMONTILLADO
By Edgar Allen Poe
Rewritten And Revised By Vic Landau

The small glass cup hit the table, his hand clenched tightly around it. Eyes red and warm from continuous drinking, Fortunato stepped back from the bar table. His vision blurred as he tripped over another man’s foot who sat at the bar. He stepped outside resting on the wooden walls of the tavern. Eyes closed, feeling the air he hiccuped a few times. He slumped over, falling sleep. “Fortunato.” He looked up drunkily at the blurred figure approaching him, he lifted his head to meet the eyes of Montresor. Montresor clasped Fortunato by the shoulders and looked deeply at him. “The Amontillado” he said. Fortunato stopped, he stared blankly at Montresor’s chest.
“The Amontillado?”
“Yes.”
“The Amontillado, where?”
“In the catacombs of my palace.” Came the short reply from Montresor’s dry lips, he licked them. Eyes staring deep and hard at Fortunato who could notice, he was incredibly drunk. He stumbled hard into the night, arm resting on Montresor’s shoulder. A tight grip on his collar, the thought of the Amontillado kept him going. They reached Montresor’s palace, only the whistling of the night and the singing of the wind in the trees could be heard, because it was deserted there. “Maybe this is not a good idea, it is late.” Said Montresor, he seemed to have worry in his eyes. “Nay Montresor, we search your catacombs!” Gung Ho, Fortunato marched forward, grabbing a torch and entering the dark underground. Fortunato walked forward, he felt less drunk and rested. He followed through the dark maze holding out his fire to show the path, but he still could only see a few feet ahead. Montresor pitched in, “maybe I should lead?” “good idea!” Fortunato stepped to the side to let Montresor pass. They kept marching through the the crumbly hallways lit by fire. They’re breath in the air and the orange on their faces, illuminating the dark corridors. Finally they reached a dead end. Fortunato being tired, slumped over. “Where?” he asked, turning towards Montresor, who had a chilling smirk on his face. “Here!” Montresor grabbed Fortunato’s head and slammed it against the stone. He cried out in pain and blanked for a few seconds. He came to the room darker then before. His torch was smothered on the ground. He stepped forward toward Montresor who stood, arms crossed a smile of delight on his face. Fortunato stopped and looked at his wrists, he was chained to the wall. “Montresor…” Montresor only put his finger to his lips, then began to lay stone and cement on the ground in front of Fortunato. Fortunato screeched and wrenched his arms shaking screaming, but no prevail, he was still chained. Montresor was already half way done, Fortunato his head scambled red, his cheeks and his legs trembled violently. “A-a-a-a marvelous joke M-montresor!” he yelled laughing his head off. His legs gave way and he slumped down, still laughing wildly. Montresor chimed in too, with chuckling of his own, as he placed thesecond to last row up. Fortunato grew cold as he stared at the last row of stones piled on. He knew the greusome death he awaited so he had no choice. He heard Montresor calling him as he fell to everlasting slumber. Blood ran from his lips to the ground, as his teeth clenched into his toungue. His eyes rolled back and he died. The darkness enveloped the caverns, as Montresor happy as could be, climbed his way out of the catacombs. Stretching in the cold night air, he dropped his torch which incidentily landed on his bales of hay, he wished to bring to the stables the next day. They lit aflame! He screeched as the fire enveloped him and his memories. No one knows about the fate of Montresor and Fortunato. No one.

My class just read that Shocked

last week
Friday we took a test on it

weriddddd Suspect

but yes it was alil diffrent >.>
cause you edited it

but still
rather werid

Magus Posts : 23 Join date : 2007-10-22

Its good. i liked how you made montressor pay also in the end. i have to admit i didnt see the end coming like that

yea

for school but i liked it a bit

i got an a- tho

cus it wasnt exactly like the story

stupid poser teacher silent

lol, i knoooow

poser teachers suz yay cheers

looks good but to long for me geek

lol im to lazy so if a like 20 line max. one was madei would read Wink

you lazy bastard

oh yeah

i know isn't he vic? Suspect

what makes you think im a he????? i might just be a gir......no wait i didnt mean that..................

prin..u wanna tell us something?

and yeah we know about ur sex change karl

what sex change?!?!?!.................................

idk what am i suspose to tell you? Exclamation

tell us that your an alien

karl explain the vagina 1st

prin u said "i know he isnt" so i was just saying...

fuk the waaa?!?!?!?

its the sexual rep[roductive organ on a women lol thats a biolocical definiftion

nevermind

i confused :/

yay im not alone anymore Smile

now theres someone else confuzzeled and not just me Very Happy

lmao i lost my train of thought and forgot what this thread was about. *go to 1st page* xD and then i remembered that 20 lines was better than reading yours. ill put my macbeth paper up. my teacher said it was good enough to be a fresh/soph lvl in college

i seez

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