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Okay so I wrote this a while ago and I just stumbled upon it. I’m 13 so don’t be too harsh, but please tell me what you think. I can take constructive criticism.
As the rain falls in rivlets against her face, her legs are yelling no, while her mind is screaming yes. The green tops of ferns emerge from over the horizon of the both literal and metaphorical hill in her way. The beating of her heart is in rhythm with the constant peddling of her legs. Her throat burns and aches for water. But her will, her determination is what keeps her tuned out of everything around her; only focused on the fast approaching end of her journey.
She peddles faster and faster, as her mind turns away from absolutely everything but the urging voice that continues to tell her to keep going; to finish what she started. Something he never did she reminded herself as she leaned forward on her handle bars and prepared for a jolt.
As she flew over the jump, she let out a cry of enjoyment as the adrenaline rushed through her veins like the constant rush of water through a raging river.
Her body jolted as her tires hit the pavement. Yes!, she thought as she turned down the path, the rain pounding harder and harder on her back; not that she noticed.
A smile spread across her face as she prepared for the sudden flashing of cameras and the yellow tape she was sure to break.
She mentally imagined the cheers, the excitement and the look of defeat on her opponents faces as they solemly congragulate her.
Then, she saw it. The yellow line that seperated her from amatuer to pro. I can do it, just keep going, she repeatedly thought to herslef.
As she approahed the finish line, and after she knew it was hers, she threw her arms in the air and let out a child like yell. The paper thin tape broke in two as the front of her bike crashed through it.
Her vision was blinded by the yellow light of cameras, and reporters were throwing questions at her left and right.
But soon enough, Mike’s arms wrapped around her waist and he told the reporters that his client would be open to questions at the press conference that would be held the next day.
After they were safe inside the locker room, Mike folded her into a huge hug. “Taryn! I knew it! I knew you could do it!” Taryn felt suffocated by the hug.
“Thanks Mike,” she said as she folded out of the embrace. Mike’s blonde hair was shaggy around his eyes, and curled just at the shoulders. His eyes that were usually diamond shaped and pure jade, were now huge and a dazzling emerald. His tan skin was was slightly wet from the rain, and was shimmering.
“I’m sorry Taryn, you probably want a shower, I’ll leave you be. But hey! Stop by the managers station before you go, okay kid?” His smile was so big, and so happy that Taryn didn’t have the heart to tell him that she was exhausted from the race, and just wanted to go home.
“Yeah, okay Mike, I’ll stop by.” And with that, he basically floated out of the room.
She walked over to her locker and spun the dial. After retrieving fresh clothes she headed towards the showers.

Taryn set the tempature as high as it would go, and stepped in. The water rushed over her. Instantly soaking her curly brunnette hair, turning it black and strait.

She glanced down at the water that was swirling around her feet. She watched it slip down the drain. The swirling water had Taryn transfixed.
“Very dizzying.” She said, beleiving she was alone. After washing her hair, and scrubbing her lightly tanned skin, she turned off the water. After wrapping a towel in her hair and over her body, she stepped out of the shower.
As soon as her feet hit the lamenent tilling, she heard a noise. She looked over towards where it came from. Taryn took cautious steps, and walked over to one of the other showers. Her hands gripped the side of the shower, and she looked inside. Nothing.
Taryn, calm down. Nothing’s there. Look at yourself! A 19 year old lady and your falling for a ghost story? Jeez. Taryn thought to her self as she walked back over to her locker. The towel fell with a thud on the floor as it dropped to the ground. She pulled on a pair of faded jeans and a Click 5 concert T-shirt.

Taryn closed her locker. That was when she heard the noise again. Her head snapped to the deffinant direction of the noise. A shadow slipped past a row of lockers. Taryn took off in that direction.

She lunged toward the figure. Her hands entwined on a red shirt. She spun the figure around.

Taryn’s gaze fell upon a tall man whose clear blue eyes bore into her brown ones. The eyes seemed to be searching for something. The mystery man’s face was tan, and had an amused look on it. His choal black hair fell past his eyes, and went barley past his ears. He was tall.

As Taryn’s hands rested on the mans shirt, her mind went bla

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Open Question: Is this post traumatic stress?
I’m freaking out today after hearing about the earthquake in Chile. I sat in my room & cried when the earthquake in Haiti happened. Am I having all of these feelings because I lived through hurricane Katrina?

During Katrina, my family’s beach front home was destroyed. Our entire neighborhood was. We went an hour north of Gulfport to stay with my aunt but we were still without power & running water for over a week. This all happened days after my 18th birthday. We had to take baths in neighborhood lakes. My cousins & I slept on my aunt’s balcony in our underwear at night because it was so hot. We even ran out of food. I remember when the town did get power back, there was a mile long line to get into walmart but they would only let like 5 people in at a time. I spent every second of everyday worrying about my friends. Cell phones didn’t work so I didn’t know who was dead or alive.

Am I feeling so consumed by sadness for these earthquake victims because I have pts from katrina? What can be done to help it? I’m a total mess today. Thank you.

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Open Question: CAT EXPERTS: What’s the deal with this cat? Spoiled? Half monkey? Showing me some tricks or what?
OK somebody wanted me to watch their cat while they went to deal with a death in their family. It’s a really friendly cat, not the kind that’s hissing or scared or anything like that. But it acts like a monkey or something, and causes a lot of trouble! Here is what it’s done so far:

- Got up on my desk and grabbed my head with its front feet (like if you were hugging someone) so it can lick my hair all over the place. When I made it stop it got right back up and did the same thing only this time it stuffed its face in my ear and then bit my cheek!

-It keeps trying to lay down on my hand that I’m using for my computer mouse. And it has bit the back of that hand a few times now. It will lick my hand like a couple times and then bite me. And then it goes for my face/head again!

-I made it get down from my desk after it bit my ear and it got on my counter right away and took its front feet and plowed all of my paperwork across the counter onto the floor. Then it just got down and came right back over to get in my face again.

-Right now it is trying to unplug my computer and my mouse. It is grabbing the cords and pulling them out of the jack. ON PURPOSE!!

This cat also eats standing up, with its front feet like a person, and makes a big mess and whenever I feed it, it digs all of the water out of its dish and plays in it too.

I have had some cats before but this cat is weird. The thing is, I am afraid these are tricks that the owners taught it or something so I don’t want to punish it. It stands up on the table or whatever and if you walk up it will hug you so I know it has been taught some tricks like that. Also since it’s friendly I don’t want it to come home all neurotic and they think I abused their cat or something. It isn’t using its claws or biting me hard enough to hurt but it is relentless with these hijinks. What will calm it down without scaring it?

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MyMeedan for gweyman I received this message from a friend of mine Mazen Al Yasiri in Baghdad.
According to his letter he was close to the Green Zone, signed a series of horrific bomb attacks.
Some philosophers say that Oblivion Nima, ?????? confirmed.
Some scenes that had its human memory.
May become ????????, and perhaps even more horrible with repeated-vigilance, not as the courts sleeping memory ????? is strong.
Amid atmospheres of action, and after three o’clock in the afternoon.
I was sitting in my office in the center of Baghdad, and sitting in front of computer do some work and put the head speaker listened to some music, away from the noise of the chamber, which jammed the colleagues.
When there was an explosion ???? and shook all the Hawli.
Handset dropped the head (????????) of my head and looked at others and all of them are ????? mind.
And, they say that they are waiting for the second.
?????? Mortars and ballistic missiles that are launched Randomly has taught us that, in turn, not once.
But is this frightening sound and violent Vibration was an explosion or the fall of missile bomb in a nearby place.
And between meditation and question and surprising.
The second explosion came, was less votes, ???????, in other words is far away as before.
A few minutes passed, and in light of the surprise came a colleague from a neighbouring room to say that satellite channels reported an urgent news was that a car bomb targeted (al-ferdaws Square, where the hotel complex (Sheraton and Meridian).
We got out of work ??????? and we are asking each other where he was the second explosion?”
Breaking our dialogue a third explosion was heard.
I turned to a friend and he said to me (Oh God, do you think we are in Baghdad or in a town in World War II?) And before they get it, the third friend (and the difference here, and there are the death of death) ??????? answer my friend did not comment and I hold mobile phone I sure that my family not to be had is in one of the three explosions.
??????? And on safety of them also.
Here, one of them shouted the second explosion targeted a hotel complex on the other in Baghdad, hotel complex (Red) in al-karadah region located on the Tigris River.
And the compound that includes al-Hamra Hotel as well as two other hotels include many journalists and foreign correspondents working in Baghdad.
And those numbers fell significantly as they as in 2003.
Here my mother succeeded in Call Me (where and jokes explosions in Baghdad as make phone networks crowded ill-or sometimes not working.
And as it ?????? by some that the terrorists use vibrations mobile services in the bombings), the important thing is I called my mother’s mother eagerly.
To say thank God I heard your voice.
He tried to return home soon or if you stay in your place, I was unable to get out because of Banditry (after each explosion), but I don’t go to the sites.
I replied in the affirmative.
But I had not told her I’m outside on my way home.
Fearing that there was no emergency ?????? and come ?????? concern what is going on.
It quickly closed all the streets of Baghdad and deployed security forces and military.
Screaming at the passers-by to stay away.
He said a pedestrian and I don’t know, it is terrorism explodes and military screaming to civilians.
He answered a young man walking close.
And it is the distinction between civil terrorist.
Pain is the terrorists disguised as women clothes in order to pass through security checkpoints and blow themselves up in markets, schools and buildings.
Understanding man and Sara.
Jin renqing phone mobile phone my friend, responded quickly ?????, with horror (are you crazy?) and a little silent and closed the phone and started ???? in the face of mixed to be influenced.
So I told him to call you.
He said, my brother, I said what you said.
He said (the third that the explosion targeted a hotel babel), and here I am silent too, and I know the cause of the cries of my friend set out to do.
????? Babylon (located in the area of al-jadiriya High on the outskirts of the Tigris River.
In return for the United States embassy in Baghdad), on the one hand is the third of a hotel complex, within minutes, and on the other hand, that a group of US ????? snooker in one of the terminals.
In other words, we may have lost some friends.
Either billiard hall ???????? inevitably.
We continue to follow the center of thousands of employees and university students and secondary schools and the professions, school children and two other people.
?????? Is common to return to our homes, cut off roads and forced everyone to walk on foot, cars carrying them.
How painful the sight of young children to take them fear and fear and they are moving quickly in the vicinity of their mothers ???????? what is going on.
Four-year-old girl on what I believe.
????? Addressed the sight I don’t know how drawn sense it is like someone you want to cry, but not that.
Speeding was moving near her mother and hands ????????? ????? what is going on.
Here began silence breaks with fire engines and ambulances that started as soon as possible hoping to save what is left of the destruction left by terrorists.
Ask its one of my friends, and we are going in this emotionally charged the events saying, is what is the reaction of the public announcement this morning, (Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as Ali (chemical) former Iraqi defense minister who is close to former President Saddam and one of the pillars of the former Ba’th regime in Iraq.
?????? Is no doubt that this is or let us say impossible.
Thus the operations of the one day is not new.
A new organization that in terrorist operations that target Baghdad.
During past operations was terror strikes in Baghdad attacks am quality with the beginning of the day.
To achieve the biggest amount of losses and confusion in densely populated the city that as the number of its citizens of seven million people.
And with the government’s intensification of security measures in the capital, especially in the morning near government departments and ministries (terrorist target permanent).
The terrorists used this time opposite strategy.
When they attacked Baghdad at the end of official working hours the departments and universities and institutions, in other words, with the exit of staff from their offices in the first traffic jam.
The third friend commented.
That what happened of explosions, paid from the neighboring countries.
The pressure on the Iraqi government to lift its decision to expel the decision (of the accountability and justice), which prevented them from participating in the upcoming elections.
And they are in, most of them former Baathists (With reference to the Baath Party, which ruled Iraq for 1968 – 2003) or from the nationalists.
Living under ????? neighboring Arab countries seek ?????? the Iraqi reality and abort the experience of democratic change in our country.
Ambulances returned this time carrying the wounded.
Survivors who they had life new opportunity may would continue and may not last long with ???????? serious.
Other civilian cars transferred the injured.
And here paid attention to a woman ???????? beautiful put her hands to her face and tears to step out of her silence and it is the opposite directions.
I wonder, what crying that I saw.
A few moments and found the reason.
What I cry The woman was injured a request from the car that took him to stop where we are because it is close to the residence.
He was a young man in the prime of life and it seems that slightly injured, but many covered his face and shoulder with bandages, he was walking and close girl help, I do not know whether it is his girlfriend, his sister, his neighbor I do not know.
We have reached a point near one of the hotels targeted.
Traffic tried without success, we were worried about friends of us working journalists in this the hotel complex, our inability to get in touch with them through mobile phones.
And also we are unable to convince the Security men to pass.
We left without success, and we see fire rising from the hotel, which has become a naked all glass windows, which crashed, we were pleased to have taken another route, and we are on our feet.
And our view each other once again view to targeting hotels journalists?”
It is the desire to kill the truth.
Or of killing transfers to remain hidden.
I wonder how many of our societies is hostile to the floor and the press.
And how many ????? of freedom of expression.
Yes, we have communities long past of restricting freedoms, muzzling mouths, by all means, ????? Legal to retaliate and customary.
And sometimes the media to produce political party with a professional, and the glorification of this and ??????? on the other.
However, the country which has made the first pen.
The first letter, refuses to tie the freedoms there.
There is still no free voice.
It seems that terrorism wants to kill him ??????? threatened.
Closer to home, and we used to live in one area, we tell each other that life is open-ended as long as the.
No age is still the rest.
And still the truth the rest of us that we, to ??????, to ??????.
I don’t know what that this was done today.
?????, It is not the worst I have seen in Baghdad.
With very proud cities who was born, but I saw it ?????, there is an invention ????? from my memory.
It is not the most horrible.
And no more a threat to my life.
On the contrary, I have been away somewhat.
Already, and I survived narrowly some of the explosions.
I still remember when a mortar shell fell after a few meters away from me.
And I am a prisoner in one of the streets of Baghdad.
Oh God still voted, ringing in my ears as I remembered that moment.
Many examples, Mr. ??????? when I went to air inhaled tortured at the outskirts of eternal Tigris when a missile fell on the middle of the river ?????? water ????? ?????? away.
Without that is my understanding of the target.
It was this the river since creation of targeted!
. And how many ?????? the smell of death, which ????????? in one of the streets of Baghdad in 2006 when it was after one of the explosions minutes and still fire, some buildings asked people what is this bad smell?”
And he told me with despair that the smell of charred bodies.
Yes, it is the other face of Baghdad.
The sadness that its blind terrorism on the most beautiful cities in the world.
The city of peace.
Ask, which is peace and help it.
This has become a city of dreams.
The Magic City East.
City.
A night and night
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