🎉 Happy 1st Anniversary! Let's Celebrate with a Story Relay! 🎉

Hello everyone, and a huge Happy Birthday to our wonderful English Club!

To celebrate our first anniversary together, we're launching a fun and creative activity: The Anniversary Story Relay!

Here’s how it works:

1.    I will post the Starting Paragraph of a story right below this message.

2.    The next person writes a comment to continue the story with a new paragraph.

3.    Then the next person continues from there, and so on!

4.    Let's see where our collective imagination takes us. Will it be a mystery? A romance? A sci-fi adventure? It's up to YOU!

The Rules:

•    Keep it friendly and appropriate for all members.

•    Most importantly... have fun and be creative!

Ready? Let's build a story together! The first chapter begins now...

The Starting Paragraph

The old key felt colder than ice in Sarah's hand, its intricate grooves pressing into her palm. She hadn't expected to find anything behind the loose brick in her new apartment's fireplace, let alone a tarnished silver key tied to a faded tag with a single word: "Remember." Outside, the first anniversary fireworks for the city's founding began to explode, painting the night sky in brilliant shades of gold and purple. But as a particularly loud burst shook the windowpane, a faint sound, completely out of place, echoed from the locked door of the basement—a sound like someone gently knocking back.

Happy 1st Anniversary!

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Sarah felt frightened. She had never been into the basement because she could not open the door. Suddenly a voice occurred to her mind: "Run!"

She dashed to the door only to find it can't be opened.  Totally panic,  she knocked the door heavily but in vain.  The peculiar sound didn't fade but even loomed, adding to her fear.  Sarah forced herself to calm down.  After several deep breath she come to sense a new.  She knew facing the sound is the only way,  so she dragged her slack legs,  inching toward the frightening basement.