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    Spice: A Short Story

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    Gillian Freckled cheek turned bright red at Spice's action, He cleared throat for The moment. He Folded his hands up in a innocent manner, clearing his throat once more and blinked; It felt weird to have the whole half of his face covered in spit. "Dog." Gillian silently mumbled the insult, so quiet no one could hear him, Hopefully. The boy wiped his face off with Kale's shirt; He knew that people were either disturbed or attracted to this 'couple' of sugar and spice. He gently touched at his…

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    Malvin's Short Story

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    Malvin created the mill to use the water wheel as energy to saw lumber. He would later build a limestone house west of the mill. The house is still lived in today. One day the mill caught on fire and burnt, it was horrific destroying most of the mill. Then the city of Lime Springs worked together to rebuild the mill. The had it back running again. That's when it all started the workers started noticing strange things. One day at work a man saw a shadow sitting in a chair. Then the shadow got up…

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    Salem Short Stories

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    There once was a witch, who was really quite rich; She had family and friends, a cat, two bats, a rat, and a fish! Morgan was her name, and the cat’s name was Salem; The others had names too, but this one’s not about them! Because the story you are about to be told, Took place on one autumn night when skies were clear and air cold. Morgan had wanted to take her broom out to fly, But Salem looked at all of them before up at the sky. “All of us, up there, on this cold fall night? That’s surely…

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    The Lottery: A Short Story

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    moved from LA to Anaheim. This experience for me really made me change my ways. There’s a story called,”The Lottery”. It is a story, well, about a lottery. It contained a character,…

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    Bridegroom Short Story

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    The story, Bridegroom, takes the cake. Ha Jin did a phenomenal job of providing a small picture into the culture in China. Two young individuals struggling with their own demons ridiculed and judged so quickly even by the ones who care for them the most. Cheng angered me by being so judgmental of his adopted daughter. In the big scheme of things, all 3 text represented some pretty important eye openers. The ideas spot on to what I think our society here in the states was back in the day. I'm…

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    Bam: A Short Story

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    Bam was not the same after that, and how could he be? In the short clip made available of his newest TV venture, he says that he had never considered someone close to him dying, and that the shock of Dunn's passing sent him into a drinking spiral. He says it all wild-eyed, slurring, hand bleeding from punching a car window in. His boyish confidence had been transformed into an anxious confusion. The life of Riley he'd built from slapping his dad while asleep and filming it now became broken and…

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    The Slice: A Short Story

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    "It's an unpopular opinion," admitted the suited human, "But it's true." Taking his cigarette out of his mouth, he snuffed the butt of it out in a nearby ashtray. "There's only one way to the heart of furries, and you of all people know who it is." The two of them, a human and a chimera, had decided to meet at The Slice to discuss something of importance over dinner. Keeping their voices to a bare minimum, no one would notice their discussion. The badger chimera who sat across from him had her…

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    The Groceries Short Story

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    The author ment that his mother was not leateraly death or unable to speak but she was just as normal as other people, she baiscly didn’t had that opportunity.The laws of New Jersey were passed throught language requirems of forigen comeriaciales.Authors childhood was strating with an autorization of same pricing and the pover of word. In the begining of new life in America, his mother was able to speak on a few words. Because his family used to live in International business and marketing spot,…

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    Cornwall: A Short Story

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    A couple years ago, Cornwall was a little puppy that had a lot of energy. he would run, jump, and even went up the stairs. Cornwall could run a whole beach 10 times without stopping. Kevin, who was getting lazy had a bad habit dropping his leach and he would run like the wind took over him. Cornwall was also able to run though obstacles like a show dog to, but even more fast. One day Kevin had an idea. He thought that Cornwall could try out for a dog show. But a problem was that how was he…

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    Freckle: A Short Story

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    “Huh...not to be a Debby downer but could you hurry up Til?”, spoke a calm, cold, and monotone voice. The voice belong to a ten-year-old girl with a neat bob cut auburn hair sporting a light red dress. Freckles sprinkled across her face and Persian blue eyes that seemed to bore into whatever they were looking at. Charlotte Ray, better known as Lotte, the second youngest Ray turned the page of the book she was reading. “Lot, I’m just trying to remember! Honest! See, mom made us take those…

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