Imagine waking up after drowning. You should be dead. Why are you here? This happened to Elena Gilbert. She wakes up disoriented, not knowing what is going on. She feels beckoned to a certain part of the woods, so instead of just lying under the tree were she first reopened her eyes, she travels...
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The Vampire Diaries: The Fury
Alphas
Picture this; you’re a fourteen year old girl who just found out that you have been granted the opportunity of a lifetime. The invitation has just come in the mail and you realize that you have been invited as one of the one hundred lucky girls who get the privilege of attending Alpha Academy....
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Top 8
Imagine going away on a family vacation feeling great. You have a fantastic new boyfriend and you are closer than ever to your best friends. Once you return, your life is turned upside down. You have been betrayed by someone, but who? Madison MacDonald is a typical high school student. She despises homework, joins...
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That Summer
“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh-cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip-flops from the drugstore thwacking...
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Myths and Legends of Japan
“The Miraculous Chestnut: The Princess Hinako- Nai- Shinno begged that chestnuts should be brought to her ; but she took but one, bit it, and threw it away. It took root and on all of the chestnuts that it eventually bore there were the marks of the Princess’s small teeth. In hououring her death...
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Riptide
Ragged Island is home to a truly devilish, monstrous creation. It’s called the Water Pit. Discovered by Simon Rutter in 1970, and as the name suggests the pit is believed to be extremely deep and full of water. The legend goes that there’s a pirate treasure down in the Water Pit’s unmerciful depths. There’s...
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The View from Saturday
Mrs. Olinski had a dilemma. She needed four kids to compete as a team in a trivia contest called the Academic Bowl. However, after an accident that claimed her ability to walk, the new sixth grade teacher was less confident and couldn’t seem to find the right kids. The other teachers began to think...
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The Maze Runner
“The Glade,” although mysterious, has been on a consistent cycle for over two years. The teenage boys, the only inhabitants of “The Glade,” expect an elevator to come up once a month with a new boy, once a week with supplies, and the walls that lead to a monstrous, unsolvable maze that surrounds “The...
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