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could get away he was in the closet darkness.                  The atmosphere caved in on him fast. His crying became whimpers and soon the whimpers became silence. Wolfgang sat and listened. At first there was only the sound of his father's…

It was a cold rainy day. Mrs. Mitty sat in the passenger seat of her old red 1982 Buick. She worried about her husband who sat next to her driving the car. She couldn't help but wonder what was going on in his head. He hadn't been the same since his…

to her room to write her husband a letter. She wanted to give him exact directions to the isolated house. But when she sat down to write, it was if some unseen force had taken control of her hand. She watched as her hand began to scrawl a message across…

experiences in life that we fear, in my case a visit to the dentist, seem to approach us with greater rapidity than we might prefer. This was one occasion when I wished that the postman had put my mail into a neighbor's box! I sat in the kitchen repeatedly reading…

, and a 1010 on your SAT; you must also register and be certified by the NCAA Initial Eligibility Clearinghouse. But as I said it is based on a sliding scale lets say you got a 2.300 GPA, you would only need a 75 on the ACT, and a 900 on the SAT to play, as long…

was shining, the birds were singing, the alligators were croaking, and the bugs were buzzing. You could still smell the citronella from the candles we lit to keep the bugs away the night before. Without saying a word, we all sat down and had our breakfast and drank…

into the shuttle. Its purpose was to supply the shuttle with oxygen. I stepped over it to get to my seat and sat down to wa! it for one of the engineers to strap me in. The countdown at this point was at minus ten minutes and counting. I sat right behind the shuttle…

into the shuttle. Its purpose was to supply the shuttle with oxygen. I stepped over it to get to my seat and sat down to wa! it for one of the engineers to strap me in. The countdown at this point was at minus ten minutes and counting. I sat right behind the shuttle…

. The very first thing I noticed about the adolescent was his hat that sat on his head. There was a considerably large Nike symbol on the front of the pale green baseball cap. The coat that he wore was a vivid color of red and a bright yellow with blue trim…

rope…. Maybe one who did not have such high expectations. I just hoped that my parents and friends knew best, and that I was heading in the right direction. I sat at one of those coffee shops, where they pretend that the black stuff that they sell you…