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    A Braided Narrative

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    I woke up on the very edge of my bed my blankets tossed on the floor and my head buried into a pillow. I groaned as I pushed myself off the bed picking up the blankets and laying them on the mattress. I stretched my arms and yawned as I walked over to my bathroom and twisting the knobs trying to find a perfect temperature. After my shower I dried my hair and walked to my closet to find a sensible outfit for the mid-fall weather. I finally decided on a dark blue sweater and light-denim skinny jeans

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    at least like to be able to go into my room and relax.” I stretched my hand out and ever so slightly tapped on the bell until I heard a slight ring come out. “Coming, I heard you open the door” a voice responded coming from the back room behind the front desk. An old woman who looked as if she had seen daylight for the first time emerged from behind the door. “How can I help you?” replied the woman in a curt monotonous voice. “We would like each like a room with queen beds please.” I answered trying

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    Short Story

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    Vroom! Vroom! ‘Just a few inches more,’ called Alexander. Easing back on the clutch, Doctor Melilot reversed the camper van inch by inch, until a few minutes later he cut out the engine. Without even a bump or a scratch, he had reversed into the mouth of Smugglers Cave. But when he tried to open his door it hit the wall with a clunk. And when Alexander tried the passenger door, he realised they were stuck. As stuck as a schmuck in a truck! ‘I’ve blocked the entrance, so we’ll go out the rear door

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    They are sitting in the middle of Maisie’s room, crossed legged with stickers and markers scattered along the carpet. Warm light emitting from a lamp casts peach-like colors onto the three young girls while the rest of the room stays dark and untouched. The walls are decorated with faded pink wallpaper and posters of heavy metal bands. The room is trashed with clothes and pizza boxes stacked on top of each other. There is a hole punched in a wall and the door has been slammed so many times it leans

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    “Why can’t you two get along?” Sarah asked her kids. She tried remembering a time when her kids didn’t argue, but the memory that popped up wasn’t happy at all. “We get along just fine,” Diana said. She shoved Dominick into the car door using her elbow. “Dominick, your ribs keeps poking me.” Dominick looked up from the book he was reading. “It’s called

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    ordering the guards to put some rat poison under it. Flich, surprisingly, didn’t say another word to me. It was a relief he didn’t continue to try to talk to me. I think he finally understands I like space. I’m even more relieved when I’m back in the room; I woke up in. I actually look around this time and realize there are five beds, three messy with blankets and pillows and two untouched along with a few old dressers. I do remember my bed is in the far corner next to the blacked out window. I pace

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    All In The Value Essay

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    All in the Value One Tumultuously fumbling past the door, they ignored everything as their legs crashed against a side table; their lips hardly left each other as they settled in the warm apartment. She fumbled with the buttons on his shirt and he could not take his hands away from her hair. Excitement surged in their veins and taking a quick breath, Marcia and Wayan separated from each other, staring from their opposite ends of the couch. She admired his ruffled shirt, wry grin, and the warmth that

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    Executive Summary Keller Realtor Association is a company that provides home finding services from customers anywhere. We provide an immaculate service with detail of the business or home you 're looking to purchase. In this document, it contains all the information you need to know about the home located on 5043 McLuhan Road in Edmonton, Canada. My findings of this city and the actual home are extremely detailed. The home has seven bedrooms, and seven bathrooms. There is a three car garage and

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    Use of Attics in Literature Essay

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    meant by "attic" and to distinguish attics from upper rooms. Not all third floor spaces are attics, because many larger houses have and had third floor rooms that were normal living spaces, sometimeshaving bedrooms and sometimes having a huge, finished room used for balls and other parties. Such rooms were furnished, and comfortably habitable. Such is the case with a room that is often cited as an "attic" that incarcerates a "madwoman," the upper room in "The

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    Profile of a Place Essay

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    have overpowers her green so it's not as if we are "Decking the Halls." Another visual that may catch the eye is the cleanliness of one side of the room compared to the other. The right side, my side, is always neat and orderly but to the left is normally a wreck. Clothes are usually everywhere and it makes for a cluttered looking room. When a room is cluttered it looks even smaller. Sometimes when I walk through the door her towel and dirty clothes are right in the middle of the floor. It's

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