A. You live opposite a house where a murder was committed.
I was standing on my balcony on the first floor. Some children were playing in the street.
Then a car came down the road, and stopped on the other side, just opposite my house. There were two men in the car. One got out. He said to the other, “This won’t take long.”
He rang the doorbell of the house opposite. Mrs Jones opened the door and the man went inside. A few minutes later there was a shot from inside the house.
Immediately after that, the door opened suddenly and the man came running out. He got into the car, and they drove away.
Someone in the house opposite was screaming.
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B. You were a tenant in a house where a murder was committed.
It was breakfast time. I was getting dressed. There was bacon frying downstairs in the kitchen, and Mrs Jones was hoovering the hall.
The doorbell rang. Mrs Jones stopped the hoover and opened the door. She was talking to a man. Then she shouted to her husband, “It’s for you.”
There was a pause. I went to listen from the top of the stairs: now the two men were exchanging angry words in a foreign language.
Then somebody fired a shot. The whole house shook. Mrs Jones screamed. A cold sweat began to run down my back. I went downstairs. Mr Jones was lying motionless on the floor. There was blood coming from a wound in his chest.
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