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• The Bunyip

  
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  Carol and Jim Black sat together on the red-and-yellow blanket upon the pine needle covered forest floor.   A hundred metres away swirled the near-flooding waters of the Yannan River, a few kilometres outside Glen Hartwell in the southeastern Victorian countryside. Jim leant back and gazed up at the heights of the ...
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• The Tiger

  
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  The dingo pack crawled along on their bellies, inching toward the flock of Merino sheep a hundred metres away from where they lay in the long grass.   Like the Huskies, which facially they resembled, the dingoes were distantly related to the wolf, and had a savage disposition.   However, they were tame compared to ...
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• A beautiful poem by Imam al-Shafi’i

  
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  Let days go forth and do as they please And remain firm when settled is the DecreeDon’t be afraid of what happens by night For the affairs of this world are not to lastAnd be a man, strong in the face of calamities And let your nature be that [...] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit the MyUmmah.co.za ...
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• Worthy My Friend

  
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  Image via Wikipedia Worthy my Friend   You’re not perfect but you are perfect for me If some of my terms concern you If some of my philosophies alarm you Rest assured my Friend you are Worthy   Yes, my standards are non-typical I am mentally high maintenance Mentally incline toward a 23rd Century ...
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• Crush

  
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  I could not believe that after all ths time I was going to be seeing David again. I can remember the first time we met as if it were yesterday, I was a young sixteen year old girl walking home from school, and he a dashing young man of eighteen home from boarding school to spend the summer with his father. It was as ...
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• Dream Journeys: Part Six – a Journey with My Dead Grandma

  
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  Introduction I wonder at times whether dreams are a way the dead can contact the living. As I get deeper into the telling of my dream journeys I find that dreams of the deceased have formed many a dream. Last night, a vivid dream saw me travelling with my Grandma, who has been dead for twenty-one years. This is a ...
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• My Heaven

  
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  I sat on the sofa resting in meditation on silence when a soft knock on the neighbor’s door stirred me.  A faint whisper from the maid to my sister.  Giving her some hot water and some leaves to soak in it.  She poured it in a glass, a hot shower created steam, and the tub had hot water in it that would make your ...
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• *This* just in

  
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  The November/December issue of This Magazine , themed "Legalize everything" is on newsstands now (and has been all month, so this isnt "just in" at all--Im just slow and cant resist a pun!) Among other bits of awesome, its got the results of The Great Canadian Literary Hunt, of which I was one of the fiction judges ...
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• Grovelling Gods

  
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  Well, it is true then that I am god and that I am in hell where people dont do my will.  But it is a fun challenge, we are all gods in a game against each other, in some sort of Tournament.  We have been driven into it with hidden rules and rules that we all know if we are observant enough and smart enough, which ...
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• My Godhood, Stupid Others

  
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  I am God.   I am Beauty Herself, and I am masterful over everything I touch.   I am wise, and I am ultimately alone.   With only things around me, that I am master of.   I create, and I watch them entertain me.    It is not about Happiness as people claim. For me it is calm mastery.   I do not like other ...
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• Sunday Salon: the Snowglobe Post

  
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  I’m writing this in my bedroom, and I can look out the window and admire all of the pretty snow, which has made the evergreen tree out there beautiful. The sky’s solid white, like it always is with snow, and I feel like I’m in a snowglobe! I missed last Sunday’s salon, and I’ve been reading like crazy this ...
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• The General

  
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  Hospital; where children and dreams are born. Life is changed, shortened, extended, ended. Hopes and families destroyed, instantly or slowly as life ceases. People are patched up, stitched up, injected, infected, disinfected, diagnosed. Accident, disease, parent, child or ambulance could bring us here. Our choice or ...
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• Tommy and Timmy

  
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  Image by rochelle, et. al. via Flickr It was a cool night out as two rats one was named Tommy and the other rat was named Timmy. They both looked exactly the same with gray colored fur. They were in the garbage dumpster, trying to find a hearty meal for them selves. On that particular night, they were starving and ...
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• The Boy Who Lost an Eye

  
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  this is a story about a boy who lost a whole lot of faith and a whole lot of courage and well everything else……this is a long time ago in a coal mine in west virgina and about a boy named will jon donaldson the boy as everyone called him will the courages well this boy was working in a coal mine since he was the ...
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• Natural Revenge

  
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  The golden tiger  passed by me as he marched onto the next city. The     rest of the animals followed as he golden tiger yelled commands in a     growl. As the lion ordered the others  followed the commands. A snake     wrapped around the vines watching for human scum to try to attack.     “We have ...
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• Flowers for Algernon

  
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  Ms.Kinnian April 15           Charlie is a very fast learner. I read his progress reports and became shocked by what he had written. It said that people at his work environment had first made fun of him. Next they got him drunk. Then they sent him out to get them coffee and when he came back they had ...
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• Gay Marrage Mixed Race Marrage Right or Wrong?

  
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   most people say gays should not get married.i am not gay but i think they should get a chance. not every 1 can find that 1 girl to love so they go gay.i think its not right but its not wrong.   and also mixed race married is that right or wrong?well i think that mixed races should get a chance to get married.i ...
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• The Yowies

  
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  “Watch out for potholes!” cried Kim Monroe thumping the top of the cabin of the Land-Rover with one hand to catch the driver’s attention. “You watch out for them!” shouted back Don Blythe.   “You’re the one working the spotlight.   If you don’t pick up the potholes, how am I supposed to see them ...
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• Tales From Newgate: The Newgate Community Hospital – Helping People Live Forever

  
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  The firshospitalst Newgate Community Hospital was built in 1675 soon after the community was founded.  This was 76 years before the hospital in Philadelphia was built which to outsiders is the oldest hospital in America.  The hospital only had to cater to a handful of settlers and the Oneidas that trusted white ...
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• The Contemporary American Short Story

  
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