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    Charlette: A Short Story

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    Prolugue I’m Charlette‚ but most people call me Charle. This is my story. The story about a girl‚ just a girl. No magically fairies or wizards‚ no queens or kings and nothing different from the world you live in now‚ yet some people might find this fassinating for reasons unknown. I’m a normal girl‚ well as normal as a 14 year old girl gets. My brown eyes and brown hair blend with a crowd and my average height and weight don’t stand out. I don’t really work to hard with my grades‚ so they are

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    Home is not a place to come to‚ but rather a feeling you get when you have arrived.” ~ Author unknown The Old Man and The Storm ~ June Cross “Time stopped on the morning of August 29‚ 2005.” ~ June Cross This program starts with the family patriarch‚ 82-year old Herbert Gettridge‚ out in his yard cleaning up from the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. He has made it his mission to recreate the home he’d originally crafted more than 50 years earlier‚ this was literally his creation

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    The Odyssey: A Short Story

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    his sleep‚ his thunderous breaths disrupting nervous air. The crew crept around‚ keeping silent for fear of their lives. Suddenly‚ one of the soldiers whimpered audibly. The men rushed to cover his mouth‚ but it was too late. The dragon grabbed the man from his comrade’s grip‚ crushing his bones with sharp white

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    elements of a short story

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    FIVE ELEMENTS OF A SHORT STORY Plot -it is the sequence or flow of the events in a short story that would help develop the author’s idea. There are five elements of plot structure-- introduction‚ rising action‚ climax‚ falling action‚ and denouement. Character -considered as being one of the most important factor to a good short story‚ the characters are sentient beings who carry out the actions of the story. Setting -the when and where in which the story takes place. Authors often

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    Mahpe: A Short Story

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    One day when the Earth was still a work in progress‚ a Ojibwe tribe member man by the name of Mahpe which means water was asked by God to enhance the beauty of the land. Mahpe began to look out the window of his house which was adjacent to a wide waterfall and he realized that all the flowers within his meadow were the same white color. He thought to himself “how boring” and in that exact moment Mahpe had a brilliant idea‚ he was going to make a change so he gathered up his paint and paintbrushes

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    Short Story Essay

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    Literature contains an interesting plot that should include a situation between two things‚ which is called conflict. Conflict is a very important element in literature. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character goes through many conflicts to survive. In Richard Wright’s “The Rights to the Streets of Memphis” a boy named Richard is kicked out of his house to buy the groceries‚ but a gang tries to beat him up on the way. The boy has to build up his courage and face the gang

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    Beowulf: Short Story

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    Beowulf: Short Story In the beautiful town of Ventaria‚ which is located near the southern- most point of Ireland‚ a once proud colony of people enjoyed the magnificent surroundings and a simplistic life. Brian the Great‚ beloved ruler of the Ventarians‚ had been killed by the evil Filth-Sammich. This vile creature‚ with a crocodile-like build‚ had a head larger than the immense church in the center of the town. When fully-opened‚ the mouth of the Filth-Sammich could open wide enough to fit

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    Moses: A Short Story

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    One day‚ an old man named Shaul said to his grandson Simeon "It is time you learned the story of our people. I want to tell you about a tragic time for the Israelites‚ the time we spent in Egypt. and a great man named Moses who saved us from slavery. "I was only a boy then‚ just about your age‚" Shaul started. "All of the Israelites were slaves to the terrible Pharaoh‚ ruler of Egypt. Everyone‚ even the children‚ worked all day and into the night‚ making bricks to build Pharaoh’s city. "One day I

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    Scrooge Grumpy Old Man

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    Scrooge was a very grumpy old man that hates Christmas. All he ever wanted was money‚ money‚ and more money. He was not nice man at all. People could see the anger in his Face. I will be telling you about him and what he looks like. Scrooges looks are just what any grumpy old man would look like. Scrooge a very wrinkly face‚ but again this is because he is old. He has white/gray hair. Scrooge wears a top hat and carries around a cane with him‚ so he can walk. Scrooge also has sideburns just like

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    Short Story On The Boardwalk

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    Warren’s gut intuition was right; he did know the tall man. He was the tall man. The tall lanky man on the screen resembled Warren to a tee. The more Warren stared into the face of the man‚ the more the pixels cleared up and the more he could see his face in the tall mans. Only it wasn’t him. Warren lowered his head into his hands. “Keep it together. This isn’t what it looks like” he thought. “It’s not me. It’s

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