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The flames roared and crackled with evil intent, as if the fire had a will of its own. Its scorching heat brought Cassie, blistering, to her knees. She was coughing…

“Come have a seat by the fire,” Scarlett said. She was smiling, in a twisted kind of way.Cassie tried to run back out the door, but she found her feet…

Cassie woke up at five the next morning, on the dot, without her alarm. It was like her body was so attuned to the day’s mission that manmade technologies of…

Who Chooses? In Roman times, abortion and the destruction of unwanted children was permissible, but as out civilization has aged, it seems that such acts were no longer acceptable by…

Some would say sneaking around outside Faye Chamberlain’s house in the middle of the night was a death wish, and they would be correct. But Cassie had come too far…

The next morning, Cassie arrived at Diana’s house with coffee and fresh muffins. Diana looked a little unsteady accepting the bag of baked goods from Cassie, unsure of what to…

Darkness for miles, that was all Cassie could see. A red-toned darkness like the insides of her own eyelids, but her eyes were wide open. She sensed the ramshackle house…

Cassie lay awake staring up at the canopy cascading down from her four-poster bed. She observed the sun reflecting off the pewter candlesticks upon the mantel and off the china…

Cassie went home during lunch to go over all her notes on the locator spell Constance had taught them. Since she’d never actually performed the spell, the details of how…

Michael Jordan was one of five children born to James and Delores Jordan.He was born February 17, 1963 in Brooklyn. The Jordans’ felt that the streetsof Brooklyn were unsafe to…

Faye, Deborah, and Suzan were the last to arrive on the bluff. They staggered toward the others, bleary-eyed and disheveled, and severely underdressed for the pre-dawn chill. “They were out…

It’s a Saturday night and you want to go out for the evening. To do this you need the car, what do you do? Flattery is the way to go:…

“Do you want a latte or a cappuccino?” Adam asked from the head of the line at the coffee shop counter.”Surprise me,” Cassie said, and then watched him interact with…

In 1993 worldwide illegal copying of domestic and international software cost $12.5 billion to the software industry, with a loss of $2.2 billion in the United States alone. Estimates show…

Cassie always dreamed of having a sister, of having someone to confide in and share secrets with, someone who would always stick by her no matter what. Cassie and Diana…

let)The Amazons – Tribe of Warrior WomenSet: 5000 BC, Amazonia, now known as Greece/MacedoniaParallel Scene: Hamlet, Act I Scene ii line 1 – 159Characters:Amedes (King Hamlet) – Late Queen of…

The group cruised along the picturesque coastline of the New Salem waterfront until they reached the docks where Scarlett worked. On the way, Diana had taken Cassie aside and thanked…

The rain was only a drizzle, and although it was nighttime, people were out and about. Scarlett had invited Cassie out tonight. Of course Cassie declined, but she wished she…

1In James Thurber’s short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,”the characterWalter Mitty uses his imagination as a need to escape and express hisemotions of anger and self-pity. By daydreaming,…

Coping with and Understanding the Deaf StudentWhat is deafness?There are many definitions to the word “deaf.” According to Stephen P. Quigley and Peter V. Paul in their book Language and…