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    Cecelia Everhart was a raven haired beauty who was quite dull and vain. Seated next to her was her husband‚ Charles‚ a rather tiny fellow. Weak and unintimidating‚ he gave off the feeling of a rather poor man; however he was rather malapert and therefore quite rude. Their daughter was an exact replica of her mother‚ sitting on the edge of her chair and drinking tea with her pinky extended. The entire family looked up as the Osborns entered and Cecelia stood up with a supercilious smile plastered

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    In performance an actor has less time to characterise and so can risk the character coming across as underdeveloped. The great realists of dramaturgy have relied heavily on implicit characterization which occupy the main body of their character driven plays. Examples of these playwrights are Henrik Ibsen‚ August Strindberg and Anton Chekhov. Such psychological epics as The Seagull indirectly characterise the protagonists so that the audience is drawn into their inner turmoils as they are slowly revealed

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    One beautiful September morning‚ Patti and Matt were getting ready for work. While giving her 6 mouth old son‚ Michael‚ a bath‚ her friend‚ Mary‚ called her and told her to turn on the news. When she turned on the news it was talking about hijacked planes crashing into the Twin Towers. The hijackers were terrorists‚ they hijacked four planes. Two landed in the Twin Towers‚ one landed on the Pentagon‚ and one crashed in the Pennsylvania Felds it was headed to Washington D.C. Leanna‚ Patti’s two

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    Tom had been on the go since six O’clock that morning‚ had confirmed that a brutal rape and murder of a woman was the work of a serial-killer‚ had interview the victims friends and acquaintances‚ and spent hours going over phone and computer records‚ without coming up with one damn piece of evidence‚ or anything he believed had led him closer to finding a direction in which to turn. The only break‚ and the only food‚ he’d gotten all day was the quick lunch with Lila‚ that had been mostly business

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    KAYLA STARED AT SETH AS SHE SAT IN the reclining chair adjacent to the couch he had fallen asleep on. Her eyes remained bright and wide as if startled by Seth’s sudden outburst. “Did you have a bad dream?” she asked. Seth blinked the cobwebs from his vision‚ looked over to see Kayla sitting in the chair bemused by him‚ and then screamed again. Kayla nervously jumped like an abruptly frightened fawn and moved to muffle her ears with her hands. She looked as if ready to scream herself. Seth scurried

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    “Help!” he yelled as loud as he could He kept yelling for hours. Another inmate died that night Callahan heard the bells and said “Thank god!” The truck pulled up and Callahan started to scream “Help!” Somebody above ground heard him and yelled back. “Hurry grab the shovel!” Callahan was close to death the guards got to the box and opened it. Callahan gasped the fresh air. The guards barked “What are you doing down here!” Callahan had to be honest “It was my plan to escape.” They pulled him out

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    “Not you and Jackie‚” asserted John’s mom‚ “there is a government space project. They are planning to take as many people as they can off Earth and then hope in a year the zombies will die off on their own.” “Zombies like in the movies?” John questioned staring at his parents serious face. John’s dad hands him the shotgun in his hands and insisted‚ “Here you’re going to need this. Just go downtown to the new science lab that’s where the rockets are.” Back in the car Jackie looks around the car

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    With every waking second that she sat at that bar‚ her sanity was chipped away on piece at a time. It seemed to take hours for a minute to go by and with every minute she grew angrier and angrier. The sun slowly began to set‚ and the sky became so vibrant with orange and pinks that it was almost dream like. The sun descending behind the trees‚ and the birds flying back to their nests. She waited over 4 hours at the cafe for him to show up but he still hadn’t strolled in to greet her. The waiter came

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    It was a warm Thursday‚ not cold enough for Cas to wear his sweater and it raised a few questions when he did. Outside‚ birds were out and singing happily even though it was the middle of October‚ so Castiel sat among them in his thick grey sweater and sunken in eyes. He was hunched in on himself slightly and his hair looked as if he’d been running his fingers through it all day. The last bell rang and anxiety welled up in Cas at the thought of going home. Kids poured out of the classrooms‚ rushing

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    Lynne came in late and used the executive bathroom elevator to avoid seeing anyone. I’ll be back in a minute Lynne yelled towards Terry‚ I need to finish my make-up. Don’t spend too much time‚ we are going on another field trip. Oh‚ yeah‚ I remember‚ I’ll change then. I had fun last night Terry‚ but you took an awful chance‚ I could have just as easily have been furious with you. Well either way I win‚ we have to learn to deal with each other on every level‚ so either way it works. Which elevator

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