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Story Guide -- Story List Length (rounded up): 2000 words, 8 min. Next (Part 2) -- Contents -- Gallery Folder The Experiment, Part 1 Rebecca just settled uneasily in the comfortable chair, eagerly waiting for the opportunity when she would be allowed to leave the room. Her trembling legs wanted to move, but her fearful mind was still able to manage the situation. Her reason for wanting to go away from her boss's office wasn’t because of her workload or a potentially dangerous situation, but because this unscheduled meeting was..., simply, unscheduled. There were no words to describe how much she hated the unexpected events that turne

 A woman sat against the garden wall, and in her hands was a bag of hair. The wall, built from decaying bricks and old field stones, extended  fifty feet to the woman's right, where it tapered to a small pile of rubble. There had once been a farmhouse where the garden now was, but the woman never saw it. Bits and pieces of it sometimes turned up in the soil: broken nails and chips of cement. Apart from that, only the wall remained, weather-bleached, woven with vines, sitting at the bottom of a grassy slope. The house that was there now–– the woman's house–– stood at the top of the slope, a yellowish ranch-style hi

A- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Acerophobia- Fear of sourness. Achluophobia- Fear of darkness. Acousticophobia- Fear of noise. Acrophobia- Fear of heights. Aerophobia- Fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances. Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places. Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness. Agateophobia- Fear of insanity. Agliophobia- Fear of pain. Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place. Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse. Agrizoophobia