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I excuse myself to the bathroom as the drinks are refilled. I just need a quick dose to get through wine and dessert and chatter.

It had been a dead night, even for the graveyard shift, until the faded clock above the counter singled 3am. The haunting started after that

The reaper-in-training set four cans of energy drinks atop the counter and rounded back down an aisle for a handful of candy.

No one knew the real horrors that came with working the graveyard shift at a haunted gas station.

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Your quick guide to understanding dialogue formatting.

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How to locate passive voice in your writing and change it to active.

Know when to use commas when writing with conjunctions.