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Captain Tory “Tory!” shouted Smith. “What?!” bellowed Tory as he whipped his head around to stare at him. “We’ve arrived,” whispered Smith. Tory looked at Smith suddenly more interested. “Who are we here for?” asked Tory intently. “Two,” whispered Smith. “Girl and boy, parents died last week.” Tory sat back in his chair, flipping through pictures of children with a sceptical look on his face. He stopped at a picture of a family. It was a mother and father with two young…

The colors of the seven rooms are just too juicy a detail not to mean something, aren't they? The black and blood red room seems so obviously to represent death, shouldn't the other rooms mean something too? A lot of commentators have thought that, and there is something of a general agreement among many of them about the meaning of the rooms. Supposedly, the suite is an allegory of human life. Each room, in other words, corresponds to a different "stage" of human life, which its color suggests…

“No reason to stop you, Stealer Girl,” said Asa, using her baseball nickname from primary school. The last fingers of light glowed from the sunset, fading into a deep cobalt blue. Asa stretched luxuriously. “May I interest you in a hot fudge sundae?” “I’d love one, but I believe the drug store is closed.” “I happen to have a set of keys.” She giggled. “In that case, I would love a sundae.” They walked arm and arm down the dock, but when they got to shore, Nell said, “Oh, Asa, we forgot…

Adam was haunted by the guilt of almost forgetting his friend. Today, Rodney was a phantom face in buried in a coffin in the back of Adam’s mind. Adam felt an immense guilt from ignoring Rodney and he thought to visit Rodney after school that day. Adam wondered why he felt so uneasy about being alone today. Rodney wasn’t the paradigm of a punctual student and he occasionally skipped school yet today he felt so unsettled like a house on cards in sand. He had such a nice day and it was without…

After the visit of the Baron Armand de Valfort, I decided to go, without delay, talk to my old friend, and part time collaborator, Jean Vigogne- better known as Sanvergogne, a nickname he inherited many years ago, when he was a cat burglar. This appellation fitted him so well, that he adopted it, in the same way one chooses to wear, every day, the same pair of shoes, because it feels so comfortable. Indeed, I don’t remember, during all the years we knew each other, having ever called him by any…

confusion said under his breath “ What is this ? “ A voice spoke from behind Edward “ What are you talking about ? “ Edward whipped around with a joult only to be surprised by a formally dressed man wearing a tailcoat, black as the night, with a top hat. Baffled as to where this man came from all he could do was stutter, “ Where did you come from? Who are you?” The formally dressed man chuckled and replied “ My name is Lennix and I should be the heir to this castle. This is my room. I hide away…

It was almost a year ago that my Father died. It was a day like this, grey and chill. Some hiker came up missing and a search party was called. As usually Dad’s great big, bay horse crossed God’s Earth and found the man. Why? My Father asked him to. That was Thor. Nobody could ride him but Dad. It wasn’t his fault what happened. So today I’m looking out the window feeling the long year coming to its unwanted anniversary. I’m angry because Mom and I are arguing again. She says with…

Tie 8u.tte ft, rfu.tte8, Sharon Gulley Copyright © 2015 by Sharon Gulley. ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5035-8088-6 eBook 978-1-5035-8087-9 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner. Any people depicted in stock imagery…

A bit of Pokemon history to begin, Pokemon has been around for twenty years. Pokemon was created by Satoshi Tajiri and developed and released by Nintendo, Game Freak, and Creatures or better known as a trio joint company Pokemon Company or Pokemon Company International. Which was not official until 1998. The first sets of games were released in Japan on February 27, 1996, under the name Pocket Monsters Red and Green for the Nintendo Game Boy. While it has been here in the United States under…

Thus, his job is the “cataract” that disables him from truly living, and keeps him from establishing relationships with those around him and wholly expressing his creativity. Gabriel Conroy experiences similar feelings of disillusionment in James Joyce’s The Dead. Gabriel lives in a “cloud” of misperceptions, and constantly suffers from obsessive misinterpretations of how others perceive him. As a result, Gabriel possesses a close-minded and defensive attitude, which affects his ability to…