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How to Defeat Monsters

Chapter 1

he early December day began with big grey clouds that first
sent rain, and then turned into little flakes of snow. There
was a log cabin in Passau, Germany, that was very petite, but

T cozy. The cabin kept warm anyone inside it. In the cabin there
was a small living room, a small bathroom, a little kitchen, and
an attic upstairs. There was a vase with wild flowers in the livingroom, and

on the mantelpiece photographs of Tom’s grandpa (who had suddenly
disappeared). In the attic, eight-year old Tom was lying down still in his
pajamas on a green sofa, waiting for his grandma to bring him breakfast.

Tom was blond and wore glasses and was small for his age. His parents
had died, so he was staying with his grandma in her cabin. Grandma was
seventy-six years old, but she was still an active and lively old lady. People

called her insane because she always talked about some monsters she
had seen when she was young in Passau. From that moment on, she was

trying her whole life to run away from the monsters. To escape from the
monsters she lived in this small cabin near the Bohemian Forest; it was
famous for its blueberries. Grandma loved making blueberry jam. Grandma
never allowed Tom to go to the Bohemian Forest because she said there

were monsters. But she did not say anything about monsters to Tom. He
would never disobey his grandma, would he?

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