The Licked Hand

The Licked Hand is a story that a young girl who is left in the home alone for the first time with her dog. When she's watching TV, a piece of news that claims a maniac killer has escaped in her community. She gets so scared that she locked all the doors and windows in the house and brings the dog in the bedroom. However, she forgets about the window in the basement and left it open. At midnight, she heard a dripping sound from the bathroom. She gets scared and tries to reach her dog which lies under her bed. When she feels that the dog licked her hand, she soon calms down and goes back to sleep. On the next day, she found that her dog is killed in the bathroom, and its blood is dripping. On the mirror, the intruder wrote with the dog's blood: "HUMAN CAN LICK, TOO".

This is still relevant today because there are still kids who need to stay home alone. This urban legend can warn teenagers to pay more attention to their environment and keep the house safe. The plot twist, which implies that the licker is a human, tells a lesson that some seemingly friendly behavior could be a disguise from danger. A harmless behavior doesn't prove that people or that object is harmless for always. I also learned that I need to observe from a different perspectives to get a complete impression rather than a facade

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