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    Adversity: A Short Story

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    girls maybe I could work out with the boys. We started to squat jump on an elevated platform. “Add another one‚ add another one” they said. Trying to keep up with them I started to add more. Until the one fatal moment when I jumped up and fell right on my butt. I wanted to curl up in a ball and cry but that would have just made me look soft. I mean the boys already looked at me like I was soft because I was a girl. I wanted to prove them wrong but for someone on top‚ that fall made it seem as if I had

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    Lesley: A Short Story

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    Lesley‚ What was the all about? Stu‚ Oh‚ you mean me thanks audience and you for such a great opportunity? Hey I might just have the acting bug. Lesley‚ That was no bug‚ that was just fucking stupid. In all my life‚ you have to the dumbest person I know. When have you ever seen a cast member of a play stop the freaking audience as they head toward the door. Only you would think to do that in the theater. Stu‚ Wow‚ you arrogance artist liberal. That’s what wrong with you artist fuckers. Just like

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    The Crash: A Short Story

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    left and then the Metcalfs. When they all left my family came over and we all cried with each other and eventually talked about random things. “So how did it happen‚ Mom?” I asked her. Dad suddenly piped up and told me how he crashed his bike. “I was riding and I turned the corner on the trail and hit a root and my handlebar hit a tree that is when I broke my ulna and then I flipped over and landed on my back and I flipped over again and heard my back crack. And I just laid there…”He went on and

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    Fired: A Short Story

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    city of Valcester‚ Nevada when my boss called me up to his office. “You’re Fired.” So many thoughts were running through my head. “How could this happen” I pondered ‚ shaking‚ his words left the same feeling of silence after a bullet has just been shot. “What did I do wrong?” I couldn’t wrap his words around my head. “Kevin‚ did you hear me? You’re fired” my boss uttered without a sense of remorse “But boss! What did I do‚ I’ve solved many cases all through my career ‚ why are you firing me?

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    Seymour: A Short Story

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    warming up to bat and field. This was my second year. The drills we did was catch and throw‚ bunting‚ grounders and just hitting the ball. We were up to bat first. their was a guy that was up he hit one to the outfield‚ and he got a single.my other team mate was up to bat and swong at two of them.He had one more strike and he was out. But he managed to hit a line drive and got a single. I was up to bat next I was a little nervous. I was up and I swung at one. My coach gave me the bunt sign I forgot

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    Blizzards: A Short Story

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    Blizzards roar like vicious troops hungry for battle. The gale-force wind screeches like a crow. Before long‚ the angry‚ unrelenting waves crash into the frozen coast as loud as a mountain tumbling to the ground. Lightning flashes across the sky causing a sound similar to an old‚ sturdy chestnut tree being ripped. An avalanche of hailstones clatters down from the sky like marbles spilt from a box. Deafening whips of ice skid across the frozen floor and eliminate any small careless creatures. Tornados

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    Rednecks: A Short Story

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    monsters that the afternoon sun cast upon all things animate and inanimate. Even though my generation belongs to one of technology‚ I will always be gratified to be able to claim that my youth was still filled with sweaty foreheads and rusty old bikes. I was only twelve when my great adventure took place. Keelan and Matthew Daniel‚ known to many as the definition of rednecks‚ or to me as trouble‚ were honestly my best and only friends in our quaint neighborhood. The occasional tag along was a petite

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    Rico: A Short Story

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    Her homecoming picture showed the blonde was tall and shapely‚ with a youthful innocence despite the fact that the man next to her in the picture – clearly a boyfriend - was more than twenty years older. He looked like he should be her pedophilic father‚ not her boyfriend. For the past two months‚ the man insisted the last time he’d seen her was in her bedroom at her mother’s

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    One way that Eric Walters was able to confirm relationships are important to a person’s life was through the interaction between Jed and the injured eagle he found. Earlier in the story‚ Jed explains to the reader how much eagle’s mean to him and to his Tsimshian culture. “ An eagle is more than a bird‚ it’s part of our heritage and history” (Walters 47). So‚ naturally‚ when Jed noticed a bullet hole through its body‚ he felt the obligation to nurse it back to full health. During this time‚ Jed became

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    Socrates: A Short Story

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    Draco relaxes with a smile and sideways glance at Socrates‚ then abligingly back at the seated youth... Yes my son‚ it is discerning of you‚ we will begin forthwith... The young man explains his last recognizable moments when alive at draco’s request... Draco summurizes.... "Now you say you had paused to rest under a great tree when you noticed a shadow appear over you... That of a very sizeable person who growled‚ then shouted some obcenity... But before you could turn to confront your assailant

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