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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

Deadline extended: Future of Vermont Challenge. Get published, win cash. Deadline: FRIDAY.

This's from the point of view of a girl in Leasons of a Dead Girl. If you haven't read it...READ it! Jo Knowels (the author) commented on this herself on her blog!!!

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When I'm in This Room

When I'm in this room,
my stomache turns.
Leah shuts the door,
walking towards me.
Nothing
can stop her.
She takes my hand,
shoving me aganinst the baige wall.
I can feel all 14 of my doll's eyes
pressing against me.
"No!"
I say in my head repeatedly,
"No!"
But,
I open my mouth just to be disappointed,
with a large lump in my throat.
I want to run, shout, scream!
I fall to the ground,
sitting on my favorite china dolls arm,
I don't care.
My eyes fill with tears,
I can't cry,
I tell myself.
She'll think I'm weird.
"What's the matter, silly?"
She says,
but with no simpathy.
She continues on,
now delicatly, yet carlessly stuffing her hand
up my favorite shirt.
The white one with soft summer flowers.
This doesn't feel right,
it just doesn't feel normal.
but that's what happens when you promise
to be best friends with someone,
you sitck with them,
when it's just not right.
but I can't,
not any longer.
"No,"
I say in almost a whisper,
"No."

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