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    4 short stories

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    4 short stories Romance: Plot and setting- character is living alone‚ doesn’t do anything with his time and his fathers money‚ and wakes up one morning watching TV and realizes that he needs to do something with his life. This character dropped out of school‚ but still loved his life even though he didn’t do anything. This character knows they have great athletic skill and decided to try out for a team. He barely makes the team as he goes through trouble working as a team and contributing to cooperation

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    It was one of the more curious things about Humanity‚ our reluctance to allow others see us cry. It could be said that it was a form of defense‚ of never letting one know your weakness‚ and perhaps there was some truth to that. After all‚ hadn’t Humanity kept the Deadly Races at bay for a time by pretending to be strong? That day‚ however‚ Intrepidus was not able to hide his weakness by refusing to go home a mess. There was a shadow he had failed to realize did not have a place in this cavern any

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    Five Short Stories Alphonse Daudet The Harvard Classics Shelf of Fiction‚ Vol. XIII‚ Part 4. Selected by Charles William Eliot Copyright © 2001 Bartleby.com‚ Inc. Bibliographic Record Contents Biographical Note Criticisms and Interpretations I. By Henry James II. By George Pellissier 1. The Siege of Berlin 2. The Last Class—The Story of a Little Alsatian 3. The Child Spy 4. The Game of Billiards 5. The Bad Zouave Biographical Note ALPHONSE DAUDET was born at Nîmes in the

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    Charlette: A Short Story

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    Prolugue I’m Charlette‚ but most people call me Charle. This is my story. The story about a girl‚ just a girl. No magically fairies or wizards‚ no queens or kings and nothing different from the world you live in now‚ yet some people might find this fassinating for reasons unknown. I’m a normal girl‚ well as normal as a 14 year old girl gets. My brown eyes and brown hair blend with a crowd and my average height and weight don’t stand out. I don’t really work to hard with my grades‚ so they are

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    Short Story and Mick

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    Serrusalmus I have road a short story called Serrusalmus written by Lesley Glaister. Lesley Glaister was born in Northampton shire‚ The United Kingdom at October 04‚ 1956. Lesley Glaister is a fiction writer and her first novel got published in 1990. The short story is about the protagonist Marjorie who is a woman. I will say she is in her forties and lives by herself in a apartment on the nineteenth floor. When Marjorie was a little girl she liked ants she felt that the ants inspired her. As

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    Scary Short Story

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    Scary Story “Come you have to see this!” screamed Doobie. “What is it?” asked Kavid. “I really don’t know. Never mind. Forget about it. Do you ever feel that something bad is about to happen to us?” “No not really.” The Island of Nesis had many mysterious things about it and on it. Nobody ever knew about it since it was far out in the ocean. On the island‚ a house stood. Some said that the doors had blood dripping off of it. Others told that the bathtub flowed with blood once. One person exclaimed

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    no idea that my family was homeless. The word homeless comes with such a bad attachment‚ so for a long time I never spoke about it to anyone. But‚ I think it’s important to share your personal story‚ in hopes that another can relate. About three years of my life were spent either in a car or a shelter or once in a while at a family/friends home. Given that‚ I think it would be best to speak only about the first year. Granted that it was the most challenging of the whole.

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    A River in Egypt Like the famous saying goes‚ denial isn’t just a river in Egypt. On the surface‚ "The Swimmer" may appear to be a tale of the effects of alcohol abuse or maybe even a characterization of a mental disorder like Alzheimer’s. Upon closer scrutiny‚ however‚ one discerns that it is denial that allows for the supremacy of the human mind over logic and reason during desperate times. Cheever insinuates that the mind is not only a dangerously powerful tool‚ but also an instrument that can

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    Short Story and Sammy

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    ] Time to Grow Up In the short story “A&P‚” John Updike writes of a nineteen year old boy‚ Sammy‚ who is overcome by his fantasies when three girls walk into the A&P grocery store. They are in nothing but bathing suits. He soon decides‚ after the events that occur‚ because of these three girls‚ to quit working in the third slot of the grocery store. The three girls to Sammy are damsels in distress‚ because of Lengel‚ the manager. Out of the three girls‚ one catches his eye‚ the one he

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    Relationships Relationships we have with others can positively or negatively affect our lives forever. In “A Rupee Earned” and “To Everything There Is a Season”‚ the protagonists are positively influenced by a family member‚ maturing them and having a positive effect on their lives. In “A Rupee Earned”‚ the father teaches the son how to make his own money and be less dependent of others. In “To Everything There Is a Season”‚ the boy’s family tells him that Santa Claus does not exist‚ helping him

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