30 points! !

so i have to write a short story, and i have serious writer's xd
here are my prompts:
-it is a dark fall night, and the power in your house has just gone
-you and your friends are on a camping trip in the middle of the

it has to be a suspense short story- so tell me which one you think would make a better story, and if you could maybe make some points towards a possible conflict, an unexpected conclusion, and things to make it more suspenseful that would be really !
no bad answers just so you can get the points.. : d

He was sentenced to a lonely prison for the criminally insane; his only companions the wardens and fellow madmen. Over the next seventeen years, Callahan spent every spare second planning his escape. He studied every weakness in the prison system. He knew every guards movements. He spent several years contriving to get a ground-floor cell so he could dig his way out. That plan nearly succeeded, until he reached bedrock a few feet below the cell floor. With every failed plan, his anger grew. He would escape this wretched cell if it killed him.

hancock was president of congress when the declaration of independence was adopted and signed. he is primarily remembered by americans for his large, flamboyant signature on the declaration, so much so that "john hancock" became, in the united states, an informal synonym for signature.

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