The monotone buzz when a phone call was filling her ear when her mother hangs up. "I’ll see you at 4!" Her mother’s voice echoes in her head. Walking down 48th Street in the suburb of Phoenix known as Ahwatukee‚ Alyson is eager to share her new attained $350 on none other than her mom. Aly has made it to her front door by the time she finished calling the salon. "Your appointment is set for 4:10 this afternoon at our location on Chandler Boulevard." The massage clerk had sent via email to the shiny
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The protagonist/antagonist dynamic in Fiela’s Child and So Long a Letter Women’s struggle for equality is about as common in society as the belief in their inferiority; it is no stretch of the imagination to figure why. The novels Fiela’s Child and So Long a Letter chronicle a woman’s fight for freedom and in so doing maneuver to criticize the patriarchal societies that elicit this struggle. This indictment is communicated by no shortage of means. One method applies the protagonist/antagonist
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take. Adults‚ drive down speeding highways texting a dear friend. If you don’t acquire the new technology you are represented as an outcast. Many years before modern technology was invented‚ Bradbury wrote compelling short stories on technology far from the time written. Short stories including‚ The Veldt and The Pedestrian. Bradbury’s ideas warn the reader‚ that personal technology will invade and shatter personal relationships. Bradbury shows technology overpowers the love in relationships. In
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He’d never felt so alive. The dance studio that he’d spent most of his time in as a wide eyed five year old in his first pair of tap shoes was akin to his home. In fact‚ it felt more like home than his actual home‚ where his dad often teased him about his ’prancing around the stage like a bloody pony’ but he knew that his dad preferred him doing this - his passion - than on the streets at ten o’clock at night smoking glue or sniffing weed. He’d never try those. For one‚ his mother would probably
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John Updike’s short story‚ "A&P" is fictional in a sense that it has a common pattern that leads the reader through a series of events. These events began when three young ladies in bathing suits walk in A&P‚ and catch the eye of a young man named‚ Sammy. He seems to favor the chunkier girl of the three that walk in to the store. As the story continues‚ Sammy curiously watches the provocative young ladies as they stroll through the store looking for groceries. In this fictional story‚ Sammy describes
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Short story: Title: One girl’s life In some village there is a one girl who did not have her father. Her father left her family at her childhood itself because her mother gave born to two girls so he left them. From then onwards the girl started to work hard and to feed their family. She became the topper of the class in every standard from her childhood. She joined in an engineering college which is medium college even though she got a good rank she
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it‚ if you want." Castiel said nonchalantly. Dean knotted his eyebrows. "I couldn’t see it even if I wanted to." Dean said solemnly. Castiel fought the urge to punch his own face. "Oh my god‚ sorry‚ I ju-" "Geez‚ I’m obviously joking‚ ease up man. I’m pretty chill‚ I don’t get offended easily‚ unless you do or say something very bad‚ then I will not hesitate to punch you in the throat." Dean said‚ glaring at nothing in particular‚ his hand raised in a fist. The gesture was everything but threatening
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A short story is a brief work of literature‚ usually written in narrative prose. Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century‚ the short story has grown to encompass a body of work so diverse as to defy easy characterization. At its most prototypical the short story features a small cast of named characters‚ and focuses on a self-contained incident with the intent of evoking a "single effect" or mood. Elements of a Short Story SETTING -- The time and location in which
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The Short Story History: as a form dates back to the oral tradition of the tale written tales emerge in poetic forms - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Boccaccio’s Decameron (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form‚ as is the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1704) short story really begins to emerge as a form in the 19th century Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short
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she’s not going to lose this partner too. At the very least‚ she’s not going to be the one that breaks this. It was light and fun and laughter‚ and she wanted to keep it to herself. Hug it to her chest and never let go of this newfound happiness. If that made her selfish or crazy‚ then so be it. This belonged to her now. “They’re criminals!” Mercy nearly shouts. “They’re agents of Overwatch!” Rae reasons. “They don’t belong here.” “Everyone can find a place to belong in Overwatch! You’re the one who told
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