sides of the edge‚ begging not to take one more step closer. I stare into the calm blue beast beneath me and it stares right back. I could tell that the beast knew how scared and nervous I was. I cautiously dipped my right foot into the water; big toe first and the rest followed. “There is no way I can do this‚” I thought to myself. “The water is not the right temperature‚ the lifeguard is not going to help me‚ my feet won’t touch the floor‚ my hair doesn’t look good when it’s wet.” I stood at the edge
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Stories among Us Mei Li was born in Kuala Lumpur‚ Malaysia on July 17‚ 1971. She was a happy and healthy baby. As she grew up‚ she had the urge to go to America. She wanted the job opportunities that the US had offered‚ but she was scared. She would be the first person of her family to go to America. She would have to go alone and explore this unfamiliar place. After comparing the pros and cons‚ she made up her mind. Mei flew from Malaysia to New York. She got a job as a hairdresser nearby her apartment
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It was the beginning of a new world‚ Adsila was at an age where she had to take her own responsibilities. She cried for the past nights ever since the passing of her mother. As the leaves started to fall and sway side to side at the valley‚ and at that time the Inuits decided to have a ceremony for her mother but because of that‚ it only made it worse on Adsila. She found a little secret place outside of the valley where she got some quiet time. At that spot‚ there was a steep‚ deep hole where it
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Everything began on that gloomy Sunday afternoon. I remember all the little details about that day like it was yesterday. I was late to my part-time job at The Alienator‚ a small‚ alien themed fast food joint on the corner of 2nd and Main Street. With coffee stains on my shirt‚ my hair a ruffled mess and my shoes on the wrong feet‚ I sprinted down the sidewalk‚ rushing to work. Breathing heavily‚ I was so focused on dodging and slipping past people‚ that I didn’t realize what was happening to my
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with himself. "You don’t live on campus." "Right. We don’t both live on campus‚ so it’s long distance." Cooper rolls his eyes. "You two are both helpless. So‚ you’re at the off-Broadway production...." "Yes." Kurt tries to remember what made-up story he’s telling. "So‚ I had just come out with the rest of the cast at the back of the theater‚ and Blaine thrusts his playbill at me and asks for my autograph. I told him…that…I wasn’t anybody and he didn’t really want my picture. I mean autograph."
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Poor Rosie‚ she’s fat‚ she’s ugly‚ she’s alone‚ her kid hates her guts and she’s dumb as a stump. All she has left in life is be just as nasty on the inside as she is on the outside. It’s a good thing she’s dried up and menopausal. Because the slob who once showed her brilliance by announcing that "Fire can not melt metal" now is telling the world what she would do with her ‘flow’ if she wasn’t a dried up old prune. O’Donnell said she would like to do this to pro-lifers: “I’d like to take my
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cowered in their homes. While Allan’s pack thought these people cowards‚ it made no compairson to main street. Still decorated with a "Fun in the Sun" vibe‚ Main street was a morbid place that sickened all who approached its coridoors. The pre-war party theme was juxtaposed by the human windchimes‚ strung by the neck‚ in such a fassion that an immaginative mind could‚ but shouldn’t‚ find it festive. A quirky holiday‚ supposidly to bring about prosperity through sick self
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December 29‚ 2013 was the date that I recall when it happened. It was a chilly winter day in Kagawong. I was visiting my grandparents house about a mile from the town on Manitoulin Island in Canada. Ice hung off the tree branches in glistening icicles. Snow‚ as tall as a mailbox‚ was piled up on the sides of the roads. It was only noon when my grandpa walked into the room. My grandpa is a tall man with broad shoulders‚ grey hair‚ and a black and white beard. He always wears his brown boots with a
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The urine would be dried and invisible. John came to the conclusion that something more tangible was needed. Pulling his jeans down‚ he copped a squat. Although he had no urgent need for elimination‚ he attempted to at least squeeze out a shart. At first nothing but air. “Great.”‚ he amused himself‚ “I’m blowing this.” He stood upright and then felt the familiar internal pressure that he was about to produce stool. Squatting again‚ he dropped a
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“I have just made a deal with the devil!”. Victor had to make another one of them. He absolutely loathed the monster and surely did not want to make a second. But to his dismay‚ his wife would die if he didn’t follow the monsters orders. Victor rushed faster than a bullet to his lab to prepare a bride for his creature. He felt the perspiration on his forehead as he haphazardly stitched broken appendages together “I must finish this or else my dear Elizabeth will die!” Victor thought. He grabbed a
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