Saturday March 13, 2010
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Short Story

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Cat and Dog were best of friends until one day when they soon fell apart and have ever remained bitter enemies since. They were so friendly until they did almost everything in common!

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Ever since she had come home from the market and sat cooking, the children had watched her so eagerly it seemed as if they would eat her. Just as she finished and set the pots down from the fire, they came crowding around her, pushing and hollering.

One Friday afternoon, Mr. Dunbar Harris visited Mr. Gibson Collins to discuss his displeasure about teenage pregnancy.

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Two weeks later we were down Waterside selling. Suddenly, Gbesah became violently ill. We went to a medicine store across the street. I bought some Paracetamol tablets, and he took two of them. On our way back home, Gbesah shook as though he would fall to pieces. Even he could hardly walk. I had to tote him all the way home.

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I knocked on the door. “Yes, you can come in.” I pushed the door open. Gbesah and I stepped into the office, feeling a gust of cold air from the built-in air-condition.

The office was sparingly furnished. On a filing cabinet stood rows of files that reached from one end of a wall to the other. In front of a glass window with red and blue curtains sat the Minister, leaning forward on his desk, hands folded in front of him. He motioned to two chairs in front of the desk, smiling. We thanked him and sat down.

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Most of the men who lived in Mantee Town, Kpatolee Clan, Lower Bong County, had at least once in their lives had visited a city; but Mr. Fahnlon had not.

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The war was over. Former combatants had gotten out of the bush. But each of us had no idea what would become of us, had no sense of direction. The only thing we had known was the gun and the bush.

Once there was a couple who made their rice farm near a hill where a greedy and fearsome jina lived.

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Chapter One
There was hardly any law and order anymore in Animal Kingdom, and the whole nation had become a hotbed for crime. Criminals roamed freely, armed to the teeth, assaulting everyone and stealing everything in their paths.

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An old acquaintance named Yogi, whom I had met in Marshall while visiting my parents on vacation, called me one afternoon: my parents were dead; would I please come for the burial?