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Bullfrogs: A Short Story
Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws”.2Brinley has spent most of her life lost in her own imagination, teaching bullfrogs to do gymnastics and pretending to be invisible2.“Space was all around them, stretching out like an ocean of silent wind ribboned with color and starlight.”2 Space and space all she had is all silence of the wind ribboned and rapidly starlight.3. “Did you hear that?”4She repeatedly and constantly making the loud noises.4. “Wake up drool face!!”5She lifted her head but stay sprawling,wiped her face with one hand and batting him away with the other!5.’Its was ringy again and again, so loudly i couldn’t hear myself think.”7Referring to the church bell.....the bell was loud as to the point it hurt
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