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    a gothic short story

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    Why do people want to live in a perfect world? Everyone wants to live in their own fantasy world because that is where all their dreams are able to come true. No one wants a world of grief and sorrow. Life should be lived to its fullest. It should not be wasted. It should be embraced. When we are faced with agony‚ we must either make a choice between accepting it or hiding from it. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois‚ a woman who

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    Eternalsleep Short Story

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    EternalSleep A K Beck Chugga Chugga Thump Zing Digger0127 backed away from the neatly dug grave and retracted its powerful arms. If Digger had the capability‚ it would have been pleased with a job well done. However‚ Digger was an AI machine‚ and did what it was programmed to do. The owners of EternalSleep were initially reluctant to use AI‚ but in due course relented and purchased several Grounds. It was a cost-effective decision. Grass was mowed‚ shrubbery trimmed‚ decaying flowers whisked away

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    Zoroail: A Short Story

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    Ailduin ran his hand through his long black hair and rubbed his neck with a sigh. "Yeah‚ being around Zoroail isn’t exactly easy‚ or pleasant most of the time. He is not good with other people‚ not even in his own race." Ailduin paused and closed his eyes a look on his face that told Amalthea he didn’t mean to say something. "Well I guess since you are stuck with him I will tell you a bit about him. Zoroail isn’t a normal human‚ he is from Zagrazat‚ it’s an island nation far from here past the Iileria

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    It’s the same oak tree every day‚ some leaves are pale as paper‚ some dark as pitch; some rich as chocolate‚ and some poor thin shreds‚ there life on the tree almost ending as there about to fall‚ each year around this time of year they cover the woodland floor. From clasped grey buds bursting into bronze‚ opening into this year’s glorious spring and deepening into one of the best summer’s green before colouring in autumn and falling precisely here. It’s a simple life‚ before I deployed‚ I was very

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    Socrates: A Short Story

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    Draco relaxes with a smile and sideways glance at Socrates‚ then abligingly back at the seated youth... Yes my son‚ it is discerning of you‚ we will begin forthwith... The young man explains his last recognizable moments when alive at draco’s request... Draco summurizes.... "Now you say you had paused to rest under a great tree when you noticed a shadow appear over you... That of a very sizeable person who growled‚ then shouted some obcenity... But before you could turn to confront your assailant

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    Bokonon: A Short Story

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    “Not long after ice nine took over‚ the world became something I did not want to be apart of. H. Lowe Crosby and his wife Hazel died soon after Newt and I met Bokonon. They too did not feel excitement anymore and took their lives together. Frank died from being purely insane because he watched his ant farm for endless hours. I stopped talking to that frenzied man after he mentioned that he would create human-sized ants. Only Bokonon‚ Newt‚ and I were left on San Lorenzo‚ and possibly the entire earth

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    Lily: A Short Story

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    Why does T-Ray care if Lily lives at August’s house for the rest of her life? He has never cared about Lily before. First‚ T-Ray treats Lily like a bag of garbage. He yells at her for the silliest reasons. One time her yelled at her for reading her book while she was working his peach stand. He said he wanted her to just sit all day and sell peaches but no one even came to buy them. Another cruel thing T-Ray did to Lily is slap her. When T-Ray found Lily at August’s house‚ Lily refused to go home

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    Zenith: A Short Story

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    Cadet Alder‚ and Zenith‚ are surveying the rocky terrain. The sun beams reflect off the reflective rocks. Life on this harsh world tunnel underground for water and nutrients to survive. It’s dead silent other than the footstep of the two cadets. The hot and dry air‚ makes you want to drink water with each step. So sign of tree for miles and you know when a fire is burning and the edges of the flame makes what you see goes wavy? Well‚ everything was seen wavy through horrid heat. Alder exhausted exclaims

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    Mellie: A Short Story

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    To everyone’s surprise‚ Vargas is the winner. The camera pans to a shocked Mellie...Her face goes white‚ you can see the thoughts race through her mind. She clenches her hands and immediately suggests fraud or voter tampering; Mellie announces the race is far from over. Moments later‚ a panicking Olivia is in the corner curled up against the wall as Fitz walks up and attempts to console her. Olivia pulls herself together just in time to find a frantic Mellie ranting on about laws in counties and

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    Pangu: A Short Story

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    In the beginning there was darkness everywhere‚ and Chaos ruled.Within the darkness there formed an egg‚ and inside the egg the giant Pangu came into being. For aeons‚ safely inside the egg‚ Pangu slept and grew. When he had grown to gigantic size he stretched his huge limbs and in so doing broke the egg. The lighter parts of the egg floated upwards to form the heavens and the denser parts sank downwards‚ to become the earth. And so was formed earth and sky‚ Yin and Yang. Pangu saw what had happened

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