Due this week

5. Haunted. Have you ever been in a house where things go bump in the night? Do you believe that some buildings or places are haunted? Is there one in your town? Tell us a story about it. Make it believable.
Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

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books

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Breaking Dawn

Submitted by Special on July 24, 2008 - 11:24.

as only beauty can
an end must surely come
and like the end
of midnight's reign
the end is breaking dawn

and breaking dawn
will show us light
as gold or bloody red
and as the dawn
brings with it life
the light brings with it
end

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Why Do They Have To Be So Depressing? (a random thought)

Submitted by pineapple_babbit on October 15, 2007 - 17:17.

Aloha! Here I am again, your reporter of random reports! The topic of my article you ask? Well, here it is: Why are all of the books they make you read in school depressing?
In class, we just finished reading a book. I had some hope that this book would have a happy ending, but it didn’t. It was utterly depressing because my favorite character died. I started to think.

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