Christensen Addition

Your Task:
Pull out a sentence from your story and insert two free modifier present participle phrases in any two positions. Write that sentence as a comment to this post. Then add it to your story. Here are two examples:

Initial Sentence: I raced across the room to answer the phone.
Modified Sentence:        2 Wondering who might be calling so late,
                                         1 I raced across the room to answer the ringing phone,
                                                      2 breathing heavily into the handset, “Hello?”

Initial Sentence: I sat shivering on the park bench.
Modified Sentence:       2 Wrapping myself tighly in a thin blanket,
                                               1 I sat shivering on the park bench,
                                                     2 wondering how to tell my parents the news.

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