The Candle Candle, candle, glimmering bright, like crimson leaves, a shining light, colors illuminating autumn’s night. Wax as white as winter snow drips like raindrops from the sky down the face of...
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The Dance of the Sea Rays of orange evening sunlight flew down the coastline,taking a calm breeze and charming birdcalls along. A stripof street, shimmering into the sunset glow, separated the sea fro...
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Few were (and still are) able to imagine the wild figure of Fox Girl. But if  you saw her, you’d recognize her even if you’d never heard of such a thing.
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The Calls of a Dolphin    Tall conifers swayed gently in the evening breeze, tilting toward the  Pacific coast, as if craning their long necks toward the water’s edge.
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The Guinea Pig Left Behind    The guinea pig shuffled around, pacing in her cage, and padding about on the  soft scraps of wood beneath her paws. She had been waiting in a lonely, desolate  classr...
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Mio Akiyama had always been the odd one out. She tried to blend  in, at home, at school, but no matter how hard she tried, she always  stuck out. It wasn’t that she looked different, no.
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Shoes    The mother pulled her black hair into a ponytail. She sat on a rough,  torn, gray airport seat with a tiny girl in her lap, crowded in by  hundreds of others.
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