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    A short story

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    Ramazan was a thirteen years old boy. He was at a secondary school in Hüyük. He was very clever but he was also naughty. Ramazan was the only child of the family. He didn’t have any sisters and brothers‚ so he sometimes used to feel himself alone at home . He had only a few friends from school but after school he didn’t have enough time to play with them . Because his friends stayed in a dormitory and they had to go to the dormitory after school. Only they were free at weekends. So on weekdays

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    A curious child asked his mother: “Mommy‚ why are some of your hairs turning grey?” The mother tried to use this occasion to teach her child: “It is because of you‚ dear. Every bad action of yours will turn one of my hairs grey!” The child replied innocently: “Now I know why grandmother has only grey hairs on her head.” :mrgreen: Wrong email address: A couple going on vacation but his wife was on a business trip so he went to the destination first and his wife would meet him the next

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    Short Story: She's Story

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    Klingova‚ Milena 10/3 02/04/13 SHORT STORY                                      Final Draft               She was walking home after a big trigonometry test‚ which in her head had not gone well at all‚ even though she had spent hours and hours‚ preparing for it. When I think about it‚ her thoughts cannot be entirely trusted‚ as she was highly competitive and ambitious‚ and even though she was only 16‚ she knew exactly what she wanted to do with her life. Who was she though? Her name was

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    Lies

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    Lies I lie‚ everyone lies. Let’s cut to the chase. But let’s be honest here‚ lying is a normal human aspect of life. In this society the overall moral and realistic view is that truthfulness is of virtue. But if one would try to imagine a world without lying‚ realistically thinking‚ it would be a world full of hurt and disappointment. Whoever said that honesty is the best policy‚ is lying. There are ways to fib that smooth over situations to the point where it is unclear what is true. Judith Viorst

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    History of Short Story

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    The Short Story History: as a form dates back to the oral tradition of the tale written tales emerge in poetic forms - Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Boccaccio’s Decameron (1351-1353) often cited as the precursor of the short story form‚ as is the French translation of The Thousand and One Nights (1704) short story really begins to emerge as a form in the 19th century Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1824-1826) an early collection of folk stories that paved the way for the development of the genre of short

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    Scary Story: A Short Story

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    What makes a good scary story? A good scary story is only good if it’s based on something that happened in reality and could happen to anybody. My story is something similar to that. Now that I look back at it‚ maybe it was just the sugar rush I had from the Surge soft drink. It had my blood pumping and my heart beat was racing. I haven’t been back to those woods since that day; however‚ there was still a part of me that wondered if what I saw was there in reality and not just my imagination. Either

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    moralistic principles had been evident in his writings especially in his short stories. It had awaken the ethical standards of late Russia into a more monotheistic nation. Stories like “God Sees the Truth‚ But Waits”‚ “The Three Questions” and “What Men Live By” have deep-rooted principles that are trying to tell everyone how to live a good life. This study will try to analyze Tolstoy’s stories like God Sees the Truth but Waits‚ a story of a merchant Aksionov who was accused of murder and suffered a life

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    Lies

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    inevitable moment when you simply do not want the honest ugly truth to be shoved in your face. Taking the ‘Do I look fat in these jeans?’ example from either a mate or a girlfriend. Rarely do they want a straightforward and brutal reply of something along the lines of ‘yes‚ of course/yes DUH!’ As Richard Needham once said “People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.” ~Richard J. Needham The truth supposedly ignites the crude linking

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    The Ghost Story Because of all the recorded evidence of paranormal activity‚ this leads to the evidence being real. Yet‚ because of skeptics and nonbelievers debunking the evidence‚ some people are led to believe paranormal activity is fake. Many people have obtained facts that suggest ghosts are real. Whether someone believes in ghosts or not‚ there will always be logical theories and unanswered questions to ghostly encounters. Ghost stories have been told through real-life experience (hauntings)

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    Huckleberry Finn: The Truth Behind the Lies The famous romantic novelist‚ Mark Twain‚ is well know for his attitude towards social conformity and the mores of society. In Twain’s mind‚ it is human nature for people to want to do the right thing in life‚ without silly rules or protocol. Everyone has their falls from grace‚ but the human race is generally good‚ with some exceptions. In the novel‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn‚ characters are frequently faced with dilemmas that challenge the morals

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