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    The Grapes: A Short Story

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    up by my shirt a shook me till I couldn’t take it anymore. At that point in time‚ I regretted what I did and shouldn’t have taken the situation that far. But what scared me the most was when the women said‚ “ Pick up my pocketbook‚boy‚ and give it here.” She didn’t release me but she bent down enough to allow me to pick up the purse. Then she started to drag me up the street. I’m only a frail little boy but she didn’t care not one bit. At last‚ we made it to her home but she still had a very tight

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    Toony: A Short Story

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    trick or treating started at about six so we waited and waited until the clock struck six and we made our way out the door and treaded down town. Once we reached down town we went to some houses and got candy by the time we reached the back roads of morris we had more than half of a bag of candy and we decided to knock on the other peoples doors once we got done we had a bunch of candy so we decided to go back to my house and dump it all out and trade candy and all that good stuff so it’s about

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    A Parody: A Short Story

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    John woke up‚ or rather‚ came to lying in a curved white hallway. Unsure how or or why he came to this place other than he is here‚ now‚ in this featureless curved hallway. The floor he was lying on was also curved. It was like being inside a large tube. John stood up with feet apart‚ he stretched out his arms to touch the curved walls but couldn’t reach. Taking one side step with his left foot he was able to touch the inner curved wall. John side stepped from center wan touched the outer wall

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    Halloween Short Stories

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    voluptuously wrapped their way round the cobbled brown bricks. The slender chimney gave of an avid aroma – a scent which I recognised and come to love on the fall of my sixteenth birthday‚ a scent of homemade confectionaries – Exactly what mama had used make on days of rain and wind… ‘’Can I help you?’’ I whipped my head to one side. A middle-aged lady came‚ shocked‚ by my

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    The crime scene was no pretty picture. Salem stepped through the door and gagged. "It smells terrible!" She choked through her shirt collar. "It certainly isn’t that pretty." Cha’relle wrinkled her nose in disgust before brightening. "But I’m sure it smelt worse when it happened‚ so it won’t be as bad for us!" "Cha’relle‚ the longer a body decays the worse it smells." Salem sighed. Her ghostly friend blinked‚ then laughed. "Right‚ I forgot!" Salem shook her head and pressed on. Though it disturbed

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    Stimulus: A Short Story

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    young orphans at first. It stung their eyes and their noses‚ yet despite this‚ it still possessed an invigorating and cleansing property‚ needed to erase their hardship. It is here‚ at the waters edge‚ where the three young siblings swore to each other a pact as endless and boundless as the raging yet calming waters. It was here where their burdens begun and were now abandoned‚ as they sailed away on these powerful waters to the end of the

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    and the Short Story The Tell- Tale Heart Convey Gothic themes The Gothic genre is a style of film and literature that expresses themes of madness‚ death‚ darkness‚ romance and obsession. Although Rebecca and The Tell- Tale Heart are fitted to the Gothic genre‚ the composers have conveyed similar themes in different ways. Obsession in Rebecca is that of Mrs Danvers‚ who is obsessed to the point it drives her mad. She would do anything to bring Rebecca back. Whereas in Poe’s short story the narrator

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    The theme of the short story “I Used to Live Here Once” by Jean Rhys (1976) is death and the journey home. Without implying literal death‚ this story is characterized as an allegory‚ which is described by Clugston (2010) as “a fictional work in which the setting‚ characters‚ plot and other elements are all symbols‚ each conveying an aspect of an abstract moral‚ religious‚ or social concept.” Another narrative element this story contains is the use of a Motif‚ which is a recurring theme in a literary

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    She was a proud Gaul‚ but here‚ the Romans saw fit to dress her like a savage‚ a barbarian‚ for that was how the mighty fuckin’ Romans saw the Gauls‚ nothing more. She paced the cage that she’d been locked in. Iska had proven to be an unruly gladiator at time‚ sometimes even assaulting fellow gladiators of the same ludus during training with the slightest provocation. She was still paying the price for breaking the nose of a Scythia gladiator and ruining her good looks. Here at the ludus of the lanista

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    Leprechaun Short Story

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    The Day in a Life of a Leprechaun A Carson Wagoner and Hudson Harreld Production There once was a little‚ sneaky‚ leprechaun named cela. He was very selfish and stole all the gold he could get his hands on. He was very 1.)Idio with his 2.)erythro hair and 3.)cyan eyes. Cela the leprechaun looked very handsome in his 4.)chlor suit‚ his wife Emily would agree. The 5.)fils on his suit were perfectly stitched near his 6.)enter. Cela had no idea what he was getting himself into. Cela was very nervous

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