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She sighed in relief when she saw her back yard. Twenty feet and she’d be free of the shadows. Ten feet. Five. A scream tore from her lips as a hand clamped down over her wrist. She’d nearly made it to safety! Pain, wicked and hot, raced down her spine as something sharp tore through the flesh of her back. One look over her shoulder had her stumbling away from the man- the monster- hovering too close. His nails dripped with her blood and she shivered when he brought them to his lips.…

New Protocol She slid her dress over her head, wiggling as she pulled it down straightening, then and sat back on the bed, slipping on her new black, slingback pumps. In the bathroom she leaned close to the mirror, meticulously putting on her makeup before stepping back from the mirror, admiring her new dress. As a final touch, she applied rose red lipstick that went perfectly with her new spring dress. Not bothering to close the hotel door, she walked out, leaving a few clothing tags and…

THE BLIND GERMAN FIGHTER The boy was gone. The gravel stretched beneath him, as did the fading voices of his family. The voices that were once begging now melted from the angered heat scorching off Hans Junior’s turned back. He had left the light and entered the darkness. His shadow stretched out behind him, aching to remain in the brightness. But he did not hear the pleads of his shadow. Soon Hans Junior and his crying companion merged into one silhouette of obscurity. Hans Junior…

Nicholas Carr’s “Flame and Filament” is a piece of writing which seeks to outline the importance of candle light throughout history and emphasize that it still has a significant place in the modern world. Nicholas begins his story with an introduction to the history of artificial light and explains how the technology slowly evolved over the years, into the modern electrical light which has become of a staple of the world today. Throughout the story the author has added supporting details which…

Serena was in a rush to catch a flight from Sydney to Toronto which was just after 2 hours. While waiting in the queue, she realised her passport was missing and she looked here and there and everywhere but couldn’t find it. “Um, excuse me, is this your passport?” said John “Oh, yes, this is mine, thank you, thank you so much.” Serena replied She checked in and the guy who helped her was sitting next to her in the flight. Serena found it a bit weird that he already knew her name was Serena,…

A bright crescent hung low behind the London bridge. Sitting on the stone edges was a lone animal, its inky black fur sleek, shining. Its tail swished and curled behind it like an aphoristic shadow, the cat’s shimmering gold eyes scanning across the horizon. A tall man appeared beside the creature in a plume of red flames and putrid smoke. His long blonde hair flew freely about his waist, mint-green eyes locked onto the tiny creature before him. He reached out to stroke the animal, ropy muscles…

Color Therapy, or Chromotherapy, is used as an alternative to medicine and is considered to be a type of pseudoscience. Color therapy is a holistic and non-invasive, yet powerful, type of therapy that goes back to thousands of years. Color therapy can be found in India, China and Egypt texts that are ancient. Color is a light of wavelengths and energies used in color therapy. The light affects all living cells. When this light is used correctly, it can have a healing effect on humans, animals…

In Andre Dubus’, “The Fat Girl”, Dubus uses the symbol of eyes to convey the inner and true feelings of a certain character. Eyes represent the moral conscience, honesty and truth that lies in the inner depths of the heart and soul. In fact, Dubus uses this idea of eyes in four instances. The first instance was in the beginning where Dubus is talking about the times that Louise has been kissed. The father is introduced at the beginning of the story and portrayed by Dubus as loving and yet…

conspicuous and more closely blended to their background, whereas in areas of low predation, coloring was less cryptic. Endler (1980) had predicted this in his hypothesis that described guppies as being more cryptic when the guppy spot size, brightness, and color distribution are closely related to that of their surroundings, with the opposite being said for the more conspicuously colored and patterned. He hypothesized that this is due to higher predation on the more conspicuous specimens…

When I got to Lao Family building, my sister went to get us a chair so we can sit and put our stuff down. The room that they were practicing has no chairs but a small stage and a few small storage room for chairs and a table in the corner. If there wasn’t a stage, it would feel like a small empty gym. The stage has a huge picture of our Hmong president General Vang Pao hanging on the wall. There’s two huge door that leads you to a hallway with windows where you can see University street and…