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The short story that I enjoyed the most is the one titled Fear & Loathing in America. The short story was written by Hunter S Thompson. The short story is about the September 11 attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon which were destroyed by passenger aeroplanes. I liked this story better because it is captivating, interesting and it kept me of the edge of my seat. The writer wrote about what happened on September the 11th 2001. The writer talks about how the crash on Tuesday happened and on that day he stopped writing about sports as it was now irrelevant. He talked about how ESPN changed from reporting sports to reporting news. From the first two paragraphs we can see that the writer wanted to stress out how the disaster was critical
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