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David BrownSamara HollandMara Stories 04-07

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  • Mana of the Ancestors
  • Fight
  • BUT THIS DAY NEVER ENDS
  • The Mountain
  • Mana of the Ancestors

    “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Kali fumed, as she tried to connect her phone to the hotel’s guest Wi-Fi and pull up her reservation confirmation. Easter Island had unreliable cell service.“Miss Mana, we realize you have a reservation but there’s been a mistake. We're terribly sorry, but our hotel is overbooked, so the best we can offer is for you to share a suite with another guest. That guest has already been staying with us for three weeks, and he has graciously agreed to split the cost,” the desk clerk did his best to apologize.“He?” Kali protested and pulled her deep brown hair away from h...bjIone door

    Fight

    A noise had startled me awake though I was too slow to look out window, so I sat there in my dark room groggily. Unsure what it was that woke me. My phone started singing the chicken dance song. Without looking i picked it up and said," What's up?!" " We are being invaded! You need to get out now!?" A shaky voice whispered to me. It sounded like my prankster brother, JD. Realising it was a prank I stated, "Its too early for one of your damn pranks, mate!" My brother replied determined and quiet, " No sis, not a prank. Shan and I are hiding with the kids. They'www.onedoor.ccve taken us from sea, air and grou...bjIone door

    BUT THIS DAY NEVER ENDS

    BUT THIS DAY NEVER ENDS It wasn’t noon yet , Carl wouldn’t call before two. More than two hours to spend waiting seemed to her too long to bear. For a moment, yes, just a bit of time as escaped from the time, she seemed to hear again what her friend Nathalie often said, to express her surprise, but also her disappointment for the time that is too fast. How many times she had heard Nathalie saying : “But how, is it already one o’clock? Ah, impossible, I was sure it wasn’t yet ten!” or: “ But how, is it already Friday? Oh, but it seemed to me that the week had just begun” At these expressions o...bjIone door

    The Mountain

    Don’t let go. I will drop to the floor if I do. The Earth will swallow me whole as my skull cracks against the floor and my spine breaks. I can’t let go now.Those were my thoughts as I climbed up the rocky wall of a mountain alone. I’d lost grip for a split second and that had been enough to hurl me into the void below as I hung on with all my might to a stony protrusion. If my fingers slipped, I would die instantly upon impact with the ground. Panic made my heart beat harder, like a hammer striking the brittle bars of my ribcage. My sweaty brow felt hot. I had to get out of this pickle, but h...bjIone door

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