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    “It’s not Ben…it’s not Ben,” he says. It takes me a few moments before I can feel myself breathe again, and few more after that before I can walk. Father’s in the lead, and Pasco walks in front of me, as I see blurs of color and bodies, shadows of bodies blocking out all the light, even the sun. Father keeps his head down, and he barely makes it to the next alleyway before he starts retching. I stand there, my hand on Father’s back as he continues to gag. An old woman walks over to us from one of

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    Edward Burn's The Corner

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    competencies and character. Some examples of this process may include a school or perhaps a recreational facility. In the book, The Corner, written by Edward Burns and David Simon, both of these examples are highlighted as settings that support and enhance development in the individuals who experience life in them. It’s interesting to point out that in The Corner, the local recreation center run by Miss Ella does more in terms of developing individuals in the community

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    Timmy Turner Short Story

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    One early morning Cosmo Cosma walked outside into the damp, foggy air, where he had noticed his basketball idol, Timmy Turner, appeared out of the misty, white fog. His favorite player in the world just appeared, and Cosmo was mystified by his vision. Cosmo had started trudging towards Timmy because he heard his voice calling him in a captivating tone, and once he had begun his process towards Timmy, his idol gradually begun to evaporate into mid air. When Cosmo had seen the development begin he

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    After a couple minutes of struggle and mini snow flurries, the two finally got the collar onto Pyrox. The little blue dragon flapped around for a minute trying to get it off. Then realized that it looked quite nice on himself. Pyrox happily perched back on Annabeth’s shoulder, making her smile. Who knew that she would befriend a dragon? For all the animals and creatures in the world, this little dragon had became her friend. Loud gears and machine parts started to rumble and turn. Annabeth looked

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    A Place To Speak

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    things happening at this stage in her life. She needs a place of peace for her to relax in and let all her feelings float away while listening to her favorite music. Somewhere that will get the creative juices flowing with her own little twist in every corner. A place where the stuffed animals come alive, and the sculptures look for items to improve their own appearance. A judgement free zone to let everything free such as thoughts, feelings, emotions, and creativity. A place where everyone can speak their

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    across hemisphere, dipping behind the mountains. There was no moon tonight, and what light there is, was swallowed up in the darkness of the night, although watching a sunset was the last thing on my mind tonight. I felt unsettle as I strode up to the corner bar, located in a neighborhood I would never be caught in during the day, yet alone in the dead of night, and though I have been watching it for weeks now, always from the shadows and keeping my distance. Tonight purpose drove me forward. Pushing

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    angry at myself for making such a stupid mistake that could have easily been avoided. But in the end, I knew I was not going to improve my time anyway. I was down on my split times by almost a second, and there was no recovering from that in 2 corners. Leguna Seca was a very unforgiving track. In my opinion, the worse the WKA could have chosen for its Junior Shifter Karting

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    Quiz : Mad Lib Story

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    #********************************************************** # Program : Mad Lib Story # Author : Kai Szucs # Due Date : Sunday 18th # Description : A (kind of) short mad lib story #********************************************************** #Inputing the extra math and random commands import math import random #ASCII art Title print commands #To spice up the title! #credits to www.patorjk.com for an awesome text to ASCII art generator print(" This is... ") print(" █████╗ ██╗ ██╗

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    On October 24, 2017 my life has changed drastically and I’m still trying to decide how I’m going to cope with the situation. It was a regular night as I was laying in my bed on my phone before I was ready to go to sleep. Suddenly a Snapchat group chat with all of my girlfriends started to blow up and with confusion, I quickly started to look at it. Maria said “Sal just got shot” and my heart jumped out of my chest. I glanced at peoples stories and all I saw was “Stay strong Sal” or “Stay strong

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    Short Story : A Story?

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    Callie, my best friend said she was going to visit her father. She walks up to the door and is about the ring the doorbell when she notices that the door is cracked open. Why is it open? she asks herself. She pushes open the door slowly.     “Dad?” she called. She starts to head up the stairs when she hears her dad.     “Callie?” Carter yells back. “I didn’t know you were coming. What a surprise.”     “So good to see you. Why was the door cracked open?” Callie asked.     “I don’t know,” Carter

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