No one has looked happy here in awhile but as the word goes around everyone’s face start to light up. As the day went along rescue helicopters arrived empty and left full. Everyone seemed happier that day. Finally a helicopter came and my family got on. We took off and the joy in everyone’s face died as
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For the sake of anonymity I’ll keep some names private‚ and call myself Beowulf. My story happened around two years ago‚ I was 26 years old when my family and I had noticed that my grandmother was starting to forget our names‚ couldn’t recall certain events‚ and at times seemed in a daze and lost from her state of mind‚ completely forgetting where she was in that moment. This was followed by her stumbling around the house and falling a few times. One time it got to the point where she fell down
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Silence fills the room and for a moment you can nearly hear everyone’s heartbeat‚ as constant blood flows into their bodies. Alicia grew impatient and says “ So is no one going to speak?” Alicia looked at everyone‚ then proceeded to look in her bag‚ pulling something out and unwrapped it and asked. “Whose pregnancy test is this?” While the look of confusion fills everyone’s face‚ but Rosey’s. Rosey once filled with color became white as snow. Her face looks as if she had left her own body. Rosey
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Cuauhtemoc the cat sprinted alongside the Spirit of the forest‚ and his tail flapped behind him like a flag. Occasionally he would stumble--not just because the ground was uneven but because things kept erupting out of it. A fleet of deer‚ a flight of squirrels‚ mounds of loamy soil‚ mazes of dewy grass‚ a kitten crying out at the first light of the sun‚ a lion exulting over a meal. All the while‚ a chorus of golden birds followed them and sang a dizzy tune to the beat of their Mother. The Spirit
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Today happened to be a cloudy‚ overcast day with an air temperature of six degrees Celsius and the water a few degrees warmer. The day held the promise of a winter storm approaching well before nightfall. The surf’s rough‚ but nothing a raft of Selkies or seals couldn’t handle. Now the local Selkie clan would meet the three male Leopard seal out in the ocean in their non-humanoid form. The Leopard seal shifters differ vastly from the Selkies. Selkies required their fur pelt to take on their Selkie
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things. The word determination is defined as‚ “the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.” Will-power is‚ “the strength or will to carry out one’s decisions‚ wishes‚ or plans.” In the short story A Worn Path by Eudora Welty‚ the main character Phoenix carried out the meaning of these two words throughout the whole story. She had experienced many road blocks during her journey‚ but she did not let them stop her from reaching the goal she had at the time. In the story‚ Phoenix
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red bold letters. There was no way I was not going to look inside. I opened up the file and briefly had a heart attack. There was a picture of my long dead father. My body seemed to be on shut down mode. Under my dad’s picture in bold was the word Reidentified. I was on the verge of flooding the city with tears. My dad was alive somewhere‚ perhaps brainwashed‚ with a new identity? Why had he not come back to me yet? Does he still remember us as? Why did my mom hide this from me? I was a statue;
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Sunburns‚ ice cream‚ and family gatherings It’s Memorial Day weekend‚ and room to walk freely on the Riverwalk in San Antonio‚ Texas is scarce. Makenzie and her family are searching for the line to buy boat ride tickets so they can tour the locale. The queue was too long for them to manage Rather than fighting the size of the line‚ Makenzie and her family ended up going to "I Scream U Scream" for ice cream. Once the boat ride ticket line dwindled down to a manageable size‚ Makenzie went to stand
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“Okay‚ point taken‚” Phillip retorted as Leland pushed open the lid to a trash receptacle allowing Phillip to dispose of his waste. “But next time I’m about to do something in your world that will hurt me‚ why don’t you just warn me first‚ I promise I will listen?” “That’s a deal‚” Leland agreed. “But‚ for now why don’t you sit back down and listen to what we all have to tell you about your world‚ you really need to hear this?” Phillip did just that. It was about time he got some answers and he
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A pleasant village of loving Kwakiutls once resided near the coasts of the magnificent ocean‚ the Pacific. The cozy village was prosperous‚ for their waters were blessed with an abundance of salmon‚ and each being in the village donned in cloaks of riches woven by Mother Earth herself. For hundreds of peaceful moons‚ the people of this village operated cooperatively‚ with kind hearts and content minds. But alas‚ darkness loomed over‚ and an age of darkness began. As if an omen has been cast upon
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