Flying back from a family vacation, seated between my best friend and an older stranger, both snoring, I began to sob. I had just finished my required summer reading book The Book Thief and was an emotional mess. I was so absorbed in my book that I hadn’t realized what a scene I was making on my long flight home. People around me looked like they were ready to throw a box of tissues at my face. As quietly as I could, I stepped over the sleeping stranger’s legs and locked myself in the tiny airplane
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cars rear ending a slow driven produce truck, and gawking at the redhead in bobby socks and skirt above the knees. Her name was Sally, and she was the talk in the boys’ locker room, some with her photo pasted on the door in their bedrooms, but her eyes were glued on Professor Bourne, her next door neighbor. He was single, and available, but his shy, soft spoken manner was untouchable, until he spotted his math student mowing his lawn. She was wearing a red scarf, tied around her waist, and ripped
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surface. The thorough check proves a success, and I turn towards my adversary, hoping he has perished. Buckshot Sam’s life starts to decay. His heart is full of six, well-placed holes. He gasps for air in a painful and pitiful demeanor. His demonic eyes start to gloss over, and his nostrils stream rivers of red. He waves his hand at me as if to beckon me to his side. As I hurry over to him, the wind kisses my face. It tells me how happy it is to see me and can not wait to cool me on extremely hot
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Zilla scurried across the bar’s grungy floors as she tried to navigate in the dark, to the door. The room smelled of sweat, hatred and lust. Zilla hated this job, it was pointless and worthless to her. She rather be starting a family or continuing her education but she knew that she was lonely and had a large debt to her name. Zilla stumbled upon the door, yanking it open and savoring the damp yet cool night air. The sky was a dark black with no stars to be seen, as if the sky itself was mourning
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bruises healing themselves when Gale’s magic washed over me. Gale didn’t have to say a word for me to feel his urgency and slight despair when he let go of me and started sprinting over to Rachael. I followed after him running sideways to always have an eye on the witch who continued throwing fireballs, but this time aimed at Sleepy who must have shown up to cover for us. I vaguely had a sense that Sleepy had training as a ninja looking back at her swiftly and with much agility dodge the huge balls of
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mini rockets with him at the local forest preserve; I thought I would get a lot of enjoyment from it, so I ran up to his house and we went in his two door red Chevy truck. The vehicle was as clean as a piece of jewelry. As he drove down the road, my eyes scanned his car and the mini rocket. I thought to myself how am I going to fly this thing? As soon as the truck came to a stop, we then walked to a spot where the grass was short and he brought a mini rocket launcher with. He instructed me to put the
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Dubois stiffened when, over the rim of his glass, he noted Lila Ross enter the bar and walk in his direction, however, it wasn't from nerves, but excitement. Apart from the morning he'd snuck into their residence, this would be the first time he'd speak to the woman, Mark could already feel an erection burgeoning as he subtly slipped from his seat, and addressed Lila Ross, elicited by the fact the woman had no concept that behind his identically coloured green orbs lay the mind of the rapist and
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butter-cream colored dress. The dress was quite simple itself with a white ribbon around the waist and no sleeves. The dress was only accompanied by two long, fingerless gloves that were elbow length. His air was so soft looking and his sparkling flaxen eyes made me want to melt. We were in a large, exquisitely decorate ballroom. The one I love was sitting in an elegant chair by the large glass windows. Kai's gaze was focused on the fountains in the garden. I smiled to myself. My feet brought me closer
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physical fit on your head or by its effect on your vision. Here are three common types of eyewear pain and their causes: Headache, Blurred Vision, or Tired Eyes Headache, blurred vision, or tired eyes are symptoms of eye strain. The facial muscles surrounding the eyes as well as those responsible for eye movement will become fatigued when the eyes fixate on something such as a computer screen for too long. This fatigue is similar to that when standing stationary on your feet for too long. The muscles
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Francois awoken from his nightmare begins to pace in his room on the ship and tries to contemplate the sins of his past. His pulse rises at an alarming rate leaving nothing but agony within Francois, and it seemed as though the sins were slowly engulfing and eating away at him. His consistent agony through the night leaves him continuously restless and delves further into a darkness that he wished he had never seen. Every assassination he committed, every act of menace, every instigation of destruction
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