My Mouth was Dry 1

Greetings to anyone visiting our English Department blog who's arrived here as a result of visiting us on today's Open Day for visitors to the College.

Over the next few days, we'll be posting examples of creative writing from Mr Fanagan's III Junior Certificate set. They were set the task of continuing a piece from the opening sentence :-

My mouth was dry and my heart beat so hard I thought it would burst out of my chest.