This was Diana‚ walking home with a large pile of piano books‚ novels‚ plays‚ performance preparations and a worrisome look on her face. This was her life and her character. Committing to every opportunity to perform piano or a play she wrote and tackling it well at last minute. It was the usual and the usual would last. Diana looked out the window watching the first snowfall gently land on the window sill outside. The snowflakes were big and fluffy as marshmallows. Sadly‚ it was very likely the
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"I should have appreciated my life while i had it." Emma thought. It had all happened so fast..........one day and that’s all it took. "Why" Emma pleaded remembering what had happened. It all started when Emma got home from a gruesome school day‚having gotten her B down to a C and her mom and dad telling her she has to get braces. Getting off the school bus and inside; Emma immediately went for the food.She went up the stairs hands full of food and homework ‚and stubbing her toe toe in
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“They say‚” the woman next to me whispers as she looks around the room‚ addressing the dozen or so women surrounding us‚ “that he is a descendent of the dragons.” She pauses for a moment‚ taking in the petrified faces staring back at her. “I have also heard that he is just as violent and bloodthirsty as one.” The women grab for one another‚ clutching each other’s arms as they listen to Tamiko speak. Though their faces are painted‚ I know that they are pale with fear. Their eyes‚ wide and filled with
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He just couldn’t get her out of his mind. His burning desire for her had transformed into a full obsession.With every passing moment‚ a new thought of possessing her popped up in his mind with his obsession growing stronger and stronger. He would do anything to be with her. Since she lived in the same village as Kanda the lover-boy‚ they bumped into each other quite a number of times and Kanda always had very few words for her. Timid he was. He always mumbled a few words in a nervous rush and made
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y nightfall the familiar trees and rocks of the daytime took on a new ominous form. It was as if by stealing their colours the night also stole their friendly spirits and replaced them with malicious demons. The stars and the moon could not make them seem any less threatening. Even the shadows now were swallowed by the invading darkness. In the gathering gloom the stars and the moon shone brighter in the sky‚ as if to remind them that even in the darkness there is light. Silently‚ Irene limped alongside
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“I don’t want to leave here.” It was the quietest of whispers‚ a mere breath of sound. As the housekeeper bustled behind her‚ humming tunelessly‚ Marilla gazed out of her bedroom window and down onto the street in the city she had called home for the whole of her eight years‚ trying to come to terms with the imminent move. Beautiful Tertia One; its pentagonal houses stuccoed in white‚ yellow‚ umbra and orange. Perfect Teria One; flower boxes in every window and designs pointed under every eave
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It had been three days since the foursome had left Arkney for the town of Farfoss‚ also known as Armina’s Domain. Lunabelle and Claude sung a song that they made up as they walked along the path to their destination. “♪ We are the Knights of Garthram‚ brave and strong and true. There’s Ori‚ Luna‚ Claude‚ and there’s Lydia too! And soon there will be more! ♪” Lydia’s eye twitched with annoyance as she listened; she didn’t like their singing one bit‚ but she had to put up with it. She looked over at
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Once upon a time there lived a prosperous kingdom called Amornthia. A noble born son was conceived. After many years the child grew up to become handsome and talented‚ he was all that his parents could wish for and more. Now even though he was amazing‚ his parent’s relationship grew strained as his mother started to fall in love with someone else. She became distant from her family‚ came home later‚ seemed more distracted‚ and uninterested in things that he and his father told her. Eventually they
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark The following entry presents criticism on Spark’s novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961). For further information on her life and works‚ see CLC‚ Volumes 2‚ 3‚ 5‚ 8 and 18. One of Spark’s best-known and most critically acclaimed works‚ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) centers on morality‚ manipulation‚ and betrayal at a school for girls in Edinburgh‚ Scotland‚ during the 1930s. Praised for its structural complexity‚ the novel juxtaposes past‚ present
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“The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson is a story which she has set up so masterfully to shock and surprise the reader with its tragic and sudden end. Because of the vast amount of details that she uses in the story at the beginning and during the lottery‚ this set the scene for the shocking and violent conclusion. At the beginning of the story‚ in the first paragraph‚ the author gives the reader specific detail about where and when the lottery is being held. She tells us the time and date‚ which is the
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