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| 06 Feb 2012 10:52 PM |
'My foot scuffed something. I looked down to keep from tripping. A china-faced doll wearing a satin dress lay by the curb, her head shattered, her dress coated with dirt. A few steps away, an abandoned satchel still packed with clean shirts lay open. I picked up the broken doll and heard a whimpering sound coming from an open doorway. I put my head through the door and waited for my eyes to adjust to the gloom. A small child cowered in the corner, her blonde hair loose and tangled, her feet bare and black with dirt. She was sucking her thumb and keening to herself. I held out the doll to her. "Is this yours?" I asked. "Broken," she said. "Is your mama here? Or your papa? Prehaps they can fix it." The little girl whispered something. I stepped closer to hear her. "Mama's broken too," She said.' |
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| 06 Feb 2012 10:52 PM |
| I'd love for the main character to be a certain type of bear |
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| 06 Feb 2012 10:59 PM |
Wives were deserted by husbands, And children by parents. The chambers of diseases were deserted, and the sick left to die of negligence. None could be found to remove the lifeless bodies. Their remains, suffered to decay by piecemeal, filled the air with deadly exhalations, and added tenfold to the devestation. |
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teamsheem
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| 06 Feb 2012 11:17 PM |
Lol, dispair.
-Merry Christmas- |
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| 06 Feb 2012 11:25 PM |
@Coolcowchik
Holy crap, I thought you quit.
And the main character is an orphan who is starving, and her grandfather died in her arms after she killed 2 theifs. Her mother is missing, dad is dead, and she has no food due to the yellow fever everywhere. And the little girl's parents died due to the illness, and she thinks they are broken. She's only 5. |
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| 06 Feb 2012 11:47 PM |
"theifs"
thieves
also @banshee BAD
BAAAAAD |
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| 07 Feb 2012 12:27 AM |
I read that paragraph, and knew it sounded familiar.
We are reading that book in class. 1793 fever? Yes, pretty good book. |
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