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The Cripple seemed old and worn off by time and bad fortune, his eyes,once filled with the eagerness for the mercy of a passer-by, were now blank in accordance with the inevitable.
Father Paneloux is a learned, well-respected Jesuit priest.
I couldn’t stop staring and yet part of me felt sick just looking. How could this be happening. Had the world started turning anti-clockwise or something.
You notice five children playing on some railroad tracks. Absorbed in their play, the don’t notice the train coming down the track towards them.
Nobody ever said life was easy but I never thought I’d be standing here today, gun in my hand ready to pull the trigger to release the bullet that would kill my best-friend and save the one I...
I lay there, stone cold watching the TV. My eyes would not flicker and stayed fixed to the news. A strange animal found in the forest. What could it be, a horse, a pony. A unicorn.
Question 1: If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had syphilis; would you recommend that she have an...
Caution strong language... Scent of a Woman: [Charlie refused to come clean with the names of the students responsible for the prank; Mr.
My grandfather had a large farm. I would eat unhealthy amounts of fruit from the cold mornings thru the hot summer days. He opened a fruit stand and one day asked me to watch it for a minute.