Lost in an Upside-Down House I knew Wonderworks would be exhilarating‚ but I had no idea how exhilarating it would truly be. It was mid-day in 2009 and my family had traveled to the Wonderworks attraction. The day had been extremely fun thus far‚ but the day quickly went from fun to scary. I was climbing on the climbing wall‚ and was all smiles. “Yay! I’m having so much fun today! Thank you mom and dad!” I screamed out‚ expecting to hear the usual‚ “you’re welcome‚” response‚ but concerned‚ I
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Flames were raging behind Karlie‚ engulfing anything and everything in its way. All that she could feel was the scorching heat and all she could smell was the smoke. Debris blinded Karlie as she tried to escape the horror creeping up behind her. It seemed like fear had caused her to forget that she had just lost everything; her home‚ her parents and her friends. A dagger pierced the layers of Karlie’s heart as a cyclone erupted from her sparkling blue eyes. She knew nothing would ever be the same
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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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vines around little kids who ventured unknowingly near it and then reel the kids into its thick canopy of leaves‚ and no one would ever see the kid again. It was a tree that ate little children. ‘Marimuthu!’ the voice hissed. 75 Anil‚ forgetting about his pleading bladder for the time being‚ could see nothing‚ but he heard the constant shuffling of feet and of something heavier being dragged on the ground. A rope was thrown over one of the branches of the ghostly tree. Deftly‚ it was tied to the
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A disaster is a natural or man-made (or technological) hazard resulting in an event of substantial extent causing significant physical damage or destruction‚ loss of life‚ or drastic change to the environment. A disaster can be ostensively defined as any tragic event stemming from events such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ catastrophic accidents‚ fires‚ orexplosions. It is a phenomenon that disasters can cause damage to life‚ property and destroy the economic‚ social and cultural life of people. In contemporary
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Detective Warren Gallagher arrived at the Santa Monica pier a little after eight that morning. He was feeling rather lively because last night his girlfriend Amanda had agreed to become his fiancé‚ and because the barista at Cultivar Coffee Bar had given him an extra shot of espresso on the house. It’s wasn’t every day that he got to report to his job as a crime scene detective looking forward to the day that lay ahead of him. As he stepped out of his Subaru and began to walk up the boardwalk his
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One cold morning‚ just as the sun had risen above High Street‚ two men‚ both in black‚ dashed hurriedly out of the Merlin Bank. One of the men wore a beard‚ and both were trim and fit looking‚ in their late thirties or early forties. They both carried briefcases‚ from which large denominations of banknotes were poking out; the first man was also carrying a sack with rectangular shaped packets silhouetted against the side; he called out to the one following‚ “Get a move on‚ Gilbert; we will miss our
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The graveyard was dark and shadowed; tulips lined the cobblestone pathway that led to the mausoleum‚ looming darkly against the feeble moon. I strode through the graveyard‚ glancing nervously around at the shadows that lay thick upon the graves like a shroud. Tulips‚ protruding like withered stakes from the ground‚ lined the pathway‚ and I could smell their sickly-sweet odor as I approached the mausoleum‚ looming above me like a forbidding monument to the feeble moon above. “Rachel!” I cried out
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It was true. Several of the maidens and their families left the compound as soon as the food supply became scarce. Her Master had not been outside of the home in months as his appearance became increasingly unrecognizable—even to her. It made her sad to see the man she’d grown to admire succumb to such an unexplainable illness and tragedies that surpassed human limitations. Ayala always thought that one day she would marry herself a man much like her Master… someone rich‚ handsome‚ and who
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Read the story Can you make any links to the poem we have already studied? What are some differences? Complete a VENN diagram using TWO pages of your book: Close read the short story together Activity Two: Preliminary Activities 1. Re-tell the story in your own words (don’t look at the story)- what words or phrases can you remember? 2. Read the story again. 3. Summarise the short story in exactly 19 words. 4. Draw a SIX box cartoon to represent the story- it is up
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