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    A Short Story : A Story?

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    You know, when you’re the heir to the throne of a long dead Camelot and one of the last remnants of a dying magical world, it’s almost an insult that nothing tried to kill you before you turned fourteen. Okay, that was a bit of a mouthful. Let’s start with something a little easier to swallow—everything started after my Mother went to fight a dragon down in the marketplace. Wait… __ __ __ “Peter!” Father had shouted, “Peter, wake up!” “I’m up, I’m up,” I murmured. I sprawled out of bed and grabbed

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    Filth Short Stories

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    focusing on spending time on the beach. One week later, I had also vanished from the glitzy, flamboyant party towns of the Mediterranean to the desolate rustiness of the Albanian interior. While in Albania, I had seen the remnants of cleaning up Europe’s communist past in the last of the Iron Curtain’s escapees. Dilapidated buildings teaming with people lined the outskirts of the city, whereas city centers gave the false impressions of European grandeur through building beautiful opera houses and luxurious

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    coffee on the burner. As Harold, my coworker and I got up to start our day. As we finished our 3 pallets I ran out of lids and Harold took that as an excuse to go out back and have a smoke break while I cut open the new box of lids. As I rounded the last corner of the box with the brand new uline razor blade I pulled up and too fast towards myself cutting my left wrist open, Everyone has scars with each one of telling a story, whether the scars be mental or physical. These events no

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    that represented the neck, rim, appendage, or base of a vessel. An analysis of ceramics, stone tools, or even animals bones would establish the chronology of the settlement zone. We are aware that the dates for these artifacts may only represent the last periods of occupation, as deeper subsurface layers of the stratigraphy often contain the earliest materials. Most of the excavation work would be done with a shovel, but whenever fragile artifacts are encountered, the hand trowel becomes the tool of

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    The Death Of A Man

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    Two Weeks Later For the larger part of a century Bucky was a chest piece, prostituted into bidding for a larger scope. He was handled as a weapon. He was comparative to a firearm, utilized, cleaned when necessary, returning to his place in the isolation of a cabinet. His adjustment to humane treatment was just a mere bit of the rubble. His third week, a barista had bid him a nice day, he spent the next expanse of time weeping, unacquainted with the subtlest of empathy. He detested the shudder of

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    significant others give each other roses to express affection. With so many admirers in Emily’s youth, it seems certain that Emily will accept a suitor’s rose, but she never does. Once she meets Homer, she feels like she has found her true love at last. This idea is preserved within her forever when she kills her first love, as Homer's dead body and her wedding dress are preserved in a sealed room within her home (Faulkner 5). However, there is an alternative sense of the rose to consider. In Medieval

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    perils! PYRRHUS: I was blind once; my eyes are opened now. I might then have granted you grace, but you did not even ask it. 'Tis now too late. ANDROMACHE: Ah, prince! You heard the sighs which feared refusal. Forgive the fallen greatness this remnant of pride that fears to show itself importunate. You know my wishes; and but for you Andromache would never have clasped the knees of

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    over and over again how much he loved her. He wrote stories of her father’s childhood, of his romance of her mother. All these things he told her in his journal, because he could not bear to worry her. He would not tell her until the last possible second. That last second came on a bitterly cold February day. The skies were leaden gray. Craig woke up doubled over in agony, dry-heaving. He tried to stand, and fell to the floor. Dragging himself across the floor he forced himself up on shaky legs

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    Abortion is the act of disposing of an embryo, fetus, unborn baby (Abortion). There are two primary types of abortion; spontaneous and induced. Spontaneous abortion is an accidental death of an unborn baby. This can happen for multiple reasons like infections, drugs, diseases, and so forth. This type of abortion is mainly known as a miscarriage. But the main type of abortion we will be focused on during this paper is induced. Induced abortion is a completely deliberate murder of an innocent child

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    Fahrenheit 451 Quotes

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    appeal to him anymore. Montag cried out in disgust: "No, not water; fire. You ever seen a burned house? It smolders for days. Well, this fire'll last me the rest of my life. God! I've been trying to put it out, in my mind, all night” (Bradbury 48). After witnessing the woman burn with her books, Montag thought about all the kerosene he has used in the last ten years and about the books. He realized that a man was behind each of those books. A man had to think them up and take a long time to put them

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