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Non-Fiction
Summary: What do you do when you wake up in intense pain to find that something has gone wrong during the night? This is what happened to me and my reactions to it. It's told in a humorous manner but is under nonfiction because IT'S ALL TRUE! This is about the most painful experience of my life.
This story takes place in April of 2004 during the middle of the school...
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Non-Fiction
WARNING THIS STORY IS FULL OF NONSENSE, WARNING THIS STORY HAS BAD GRAMMAR
Steve walked through the woods. Bored to death
he knew the way back, he didnt want to go back
all Steve wanted was his father back...
Steve was still waking... just then a deer ran by,
then Steve heard gunshots, then a wiley...
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Non-Fiction
The
dreaded realization that I was sitting in a desk
was the first thing that came to me. Looking around, I saw the white
paint on the walls, the ceiling tiles, and the light blue floor. As I
expected, the blinds were closed, and the overall appearance of the
room was the average not too dim, not too bright variety.
Looking
up, I saw my English teacher sitting on a stool,...
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Non-Fiction
Everyone hates Mondays, but we had a reason to hate Mondays even more than most people. I went to the classic Catholic school, the type of Catholic school that is complete with a cafagymatorium. Every single Monday one of the priests from the parish would come in to give us a dreary speech about religion followed by the classic game of stump the priest.
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Non-Fiction
Beauty
At age 18, I found out that beauty existed. I have often been told that beauty exists in everything, flowers, streams, even a dirty hobo. I found all of this to be completely ridiculous. Physical beauty is nothing more than a temporary state. I found that absolute beauty does not exist in some object that can simply be viewed whenever one chances upon the feeling. Beauty...
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Non-Fiction
It's unsettling the thoughts racing through my head of days gone by. Of times that will never come again. Of things that have happened but will never happen again. That life as I knew it won't ever be the same. Nothing will ever repeat itself...well almost nothing.
I...
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“Just another day of the thing I call a life” by Someone
I got out of my brother’s car and started for the school’s double
doors. Man I was tired. It was 6:50 am and I had to go to school one
hour and ten minutes before it even started. But for a reason. You see,
my brothers in this thing called early bird where instead of talking
gym, you take this marathon class...
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Non-Fiction
Where the Heck are the Lasers?
This is the future. According to Terminator 2, we should be being taken over by skeletal governors (who use lasers) by now, GI Joe promised giant battles full of weapons of mass destruction, shooting giant lasers without anyone getting killed, and then there was Star Wars, with the multi lasers buzzing overhead and even swords that could be...
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When Shes Gone...
She was my friend... The best person in the world... My one and only... But she lost herself...
Morgan was probally the closest thing I had to a true friend. We did everything togather back in middle school. We took eachother's books to class, and were nearly inseperable... Until she got interested in boys. I had nothing against her I had a girlfriend too. But...
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Non-Fiction
Chapter 1: The Coming
(Based on True Story)
The sun shone, a new day for Mandy. She opened here eyes as the rays of sun touches her soft face. She quickly grabbed her teddy bear and walked out of her room. "Good Morning sweetie!" Her mom said to her as she carefully walk down the stair steps. "Hurry up, it's tme to eat breakfast. Your dad and...
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The stifling heat of the crowded gymnasium stood out in sharp contrast to the biting cold just outside the doors. People were milling around, some with an air of confidence and purpose, but most of us just looked confused. I certainly was. Abby grabbed my arm as I stopped to stare just inside the doorway, not just because by the look in my eyes she probably thought I was going to...
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Non-Fiction
This Is A True Story!
I never expected it to happen. Life had led me to be untrustworthy of many. I joined the Army a couple months before Ray. We didn't meet until March of 2007. We were both Private(E-2)'s. He caught my curiousity not only because he stuck out because of his persona but also because he was Native American. Something I rarely saw in my...
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Non-Fiction
I will not see the light of tomorrow
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Non-Fiction
Loyola High School Names High Point Academy Student as2008 Reverend Charles R. Gagnan, S.J. Scholarship Awardee
14 - year old Conrad Ukropina, an eight grader at High Point Academy in Pasadena, is the 2008 recipient of the Reverend Charles R. Gagnan, S.J. Scholarship Award for Loyola High School. Conrad was the highest – ranking candidate from over 800 students considered...
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Non-Fiction
"So, what is it that you want to do?" my
mother asked me, her voice stern and strained. Her eyebrows bent inward
so that a crease formed between them.
I remained silent, silently pondering and silently broken.
"August, you know we can't help you if you don't know what you want." She clenched her hands onto her skirt.
I don't know.
"Why is...
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Non-Fiction
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote this article a few years ago for a magazine aimed at people interested in getting as close to a totally self-reliant lifestyle as they could without wearing animal skins and painting on cave walls. Since then, it has made the rounds on the internet and angered a lot of animal lovers. Federal legislation has been passed closing down the last three meat packing plants...
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Non-Fiction
As a historical figure, Thomas
Jefferson is widely respected and admired. He decided to do what was considered
wrong, to do what he thought was right, to form our nation. "As
our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can
fight like men also." (Jefferson,
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/t/thomas_jefferson.html) A man of many...
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Non-Fiction
J.R.R. Tolkien was an amazing writer and artist who wrote numerous books. Some of his works are: Unfinished Tales of Numerior and Middle-earth, Silmarillion, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and Farmer Giles of Ham. He liked to base his characters after himself and other people he knew. For instance, he once wrote, “ I am, in fact, a hobbit, in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and...
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Non-Fiction
Snap
By Sophie Huchet
Snap. That sound, it haunts my dreams and has me lying awake in my bed at night, again and again. Snap. The sound of bones crushing, ligaments splitting, vertebrae compacting. Thump. Crumpled body on the ground, life defeated. The images wreak havoc on my waking hours and desiccate my sleep. The colors. The reds of the blood, the white of bone as...
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Non-Fiction
4th January 1967
Standing in the cockpit of the boat as she's pushed back from the jetty, I can see them all looking at me. I catch the eye of Frank from the Daily Mail, he smiles guiltily at me. Christ that man's been giving me hell this time.
"Only doing my job, Don old boy." He pointed out to me last night as we played cards.
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