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One thousand pieces of sugar paper
During the summer vacation in the first grade, I went to my grandmother's house in Beijing as a guest. It was the age of "seven years old and eight years old to be disliked", and a girl named Shixiang from the next yard came to be my friend, and we played all kinds of games to make grandma's house restless. My cousin was recovering at my grandmother's house, and she couldn't sit still any longer. One day, she said to us, "Do you know what it means to be tired?" Shixiang and I looked at each other and laughed without a name. Yes, what does it mean to be tired? We never thought about it. Tiredness is so far away from us. Sometimes I hear grown-ups say, "Oh, I'm so tired." They are tired because they are adults. When we finally stopped laughing, my cousin said, "Doesn't Sehyang have some candy paper, why don't you spend some time saving it?" I remembered that Sehyang did let me visit some of the candy paper she had saved, which were dozens of beautiful pieces of cellophane, stuck inside a thin book. But I was neither interested in her sugar paper nor did I find it interesting. But Sehyang was interested, "Why do you want us to save the candy paper?" "If you save up a thousand pieces of candy paper, your cousin will give you an electric dog, the one that barks."
Moxadple gggPublished 2 years ago in FictionThe Yellow Hibiscus Chapter 13
I hopped the Lexington Avenue 6 train three and a half blocks from my apartment. Then I got off at 42nd Street Grand Central. Transferring to the shuttle to 42nd Street Times Square, and then jumped on the D train to Coney Island-Stillwell Avenue Brooklyn. Inland Storage was in a substantial gothic five-story building on Mermaid Avenue about five blocks away. The office was on the first floor. For a moment, I thought I was at the post office! Bulletproof glass and a massive steel door were obviously to discourage burglars. A blonde female sat behind a computer. She was filing away at her nails, chewing gum, and periodically yakking away on the mouthpiece of the receptionist's headphones.
Annelise LordsPublished 2 years ago in FictionWhen building the Great Wall of China
The Great Wall of China was completed at its northernmost point. This project started from the southeast and southwest respectively, and finally intersected here. In the east and west wall-building armies, this method of building in sections was implemented on a much smaller scale, so that the wall builders were divided into squads of about twenty men, each squad being responsible for building out five hundred meters, and then an adjacent squad would build a section of the same length toward them. However, when the two sections were connected, they did not continue to build down to the head of the kilometer, rather, the two teams were sent to a completely different area to build the Wall. This method naturally produced many large gaps, which were gradually and slowly filled in, some even after the Wall was declared completed. Yes, it is said that some of the openings were not filled at all, and although this is a view that can probably only be seen in the many legends that surround the project, the scale of the project is so large that it is impossible to verify these legends by one's own eyes and one's own standards, at least not by a single person.
sissytishaPublished 2 years ago in FictionThe 2 meters of rope
It was too late when the fire was discovered. The man pulled the woman and rushed for the stairs, only to be pounced back by the fire. The fire spread quickly, and the whole building was like a mad burning charcoal, baking every inch of space into a hot iron. Even though they closed the door tightly, tongues of fire and smoke pushed their way in through the door, one by one. The small room gradually became hot and unbearable.
sissytishaPublished 2 years ago in FictionSpring is a verb
The spring breeze blew over warmly, the frozen river began to loosen up, the Spring Festival passed in a flash, and everyone could no longer sit still and moved.
dannieMowwPublished 2 years ago in FictionMemories: places and people
Brooklyn: three-lane street. Bridges. Churches and cemeteries everywhere. And candy stores. A little boy helps an old man with a beard cross the street and says, "Happy Sabbath." The old man smiles and knocks his pipe clean on the boy's head. The boy cries and runs home. ...... Exasperating heat and humidity envelop the district. The residents brought their folding chairs out into the street after dinner to sit and chat. Suddenly it started to snow. People were puzzled. A vendor called down the street to sell hot pretzels. He was attacked by several dogs and chased up a tree. Unfortunately, there were several other dogs in the tree.
The death of the seagull
Gull flocks are most common on the North Atlantic coast. During our week here, we saw thousands of gulls of all sizes and colors. There were gray-winged herring-eating gulls and great black-tailed gulls from the Arctic.
The two coins in the fountain
Even when my cousin Andrea was a little girl, she always had big dreams! When we talked about becoming a teacher or a secretary when we grew up, Andrea dreamed of becoming a movie star. And while we dreamed of vacations in the Mediterranean, Andrea dreamed of the Caribbean, farther away from Scotland!
Marriage Of Convenience: Part 7
“My name is Lord Karson. May I please have yours?” Kirby hesitated for a moment but then shook the man’s hand. “Kirby,” he said, holding his hand tighter than necessary and smiling at him.
Gloria MichaelPublished 2 years ago in FictionMarriage Of Convenience: Part 8
Kirby smiled as he nodded his head happily. “Hello Lina,” he said quietly. “It’s me.” Lina turned her attention away from him momentarily and regarded him. Her eyes widened in surprise as she saw that he was wearing his cloak, which had slipped from his shoulders during the brief moment of hugging. “Oh...um, good day Lord Karson,” she stammered softly. Then she hurriedly turned back to face Kirby. “You must forgive me,” she said as she quickly removed the hood from Kirby’s head. “I am just so happy to see you.” Her voice broke slightly in her last sentence. She wiped a stray tear that threatened to roll down her cheek.
Gloria MichaelPublished 2 years ago in FictionMarriage Of Convenience: Part 9
Now, however, he realized that even though he was alone, his life would always be completely better than he'd ever dreamed it could be. All he wanted was for him and Lina to be able to live happily ever after...And perhaps it wasn’t only in this life that they might be able to do that.
Gloria MichaelPublished 2 years ago in FictionMarriage Of Convenience: Part 10
The kiss that followed was passionate and full of lust. It took several minutes for them to pull away from each other. They both breathed heavily.
Gloria MichaelPublished 2 years ago in Fiction