31 Results with the "Fiction" genre
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The Pyramid Chapter 4
NIGHT OF THE NEW MOON Dances, dinners, almost daily letters from Alice up the Nile—which he answered with some fervor, as well as with perfect promptness—and all the other ordinary features of the Egyptian season; yet Carlton could not get away from the feeling of mystery that clung close about him. For that matter, he didn’t try to. It was in keeping with his mood. Only in a roundabout way had he questioned Osman about the apparition he had seen on the steps of the mosque of Ibn-Tulun. It must…-
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Summer vacation slipped by without my noticing. Xu Ni and I stopped meeting. When school started, in perfect unspoken agreement, she took my seat and I took hers. Just like before, no exchanges, always walking around each other. Only Zhou Wei was nervous. He asked me what I’d do if my grades slipped behind. I smirked. Who says Xu Ni has to be first in class? Does Xu Ni even want to be top? She didn’t. Xu Ni didn’t even know what she wanted anymore. She grew more and more…-
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When I delivered it to Xu Ni, she was behind the counter, wearing her wig and my clothes. Zhou Wei was beside her, lazily fiddling with the coffee machine. Every time he finished a step, he’d glance her way. When Xu Ni nodded obediently, a satisfied smile curled at Zhou Wei’s lips. I watched this scene for a long time before turning and leaving. Zhou Wei caught up with me at the bus stop. "Xu Si." He was out of breath. "I knew right away that wasn’t you." "Xu Ni’s suicide is…
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Xu Ni slowly removed the wig from her head and stood to go back to her bedroom. "Take off your makeup, change your clothes, come with me." Xu Ni stopped in her tracks, making no move forward. "I’ll wait ten minutes. When time’s up, I’m leaving." "Where are you taking me?" "Selling you off." Xu Ni was stunned for a moment. The way she looked at me stirred an odd sense of satisfaction in my heart. I tapped the table. "Hurry up." Xu Ni shivered, turned, and walked quickly…
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Xu Ni’s suicide was a mystery. No notes, no messages. Shen Fang tore apart their home, desperate for answers. Until the floorboard was lifted. Everyone froze. Scratched in awkward, twisted letters were words like hands choking the air: Save me, save me, save me. Xu Si. Save me. Why did Xu Ni want someone to save her? Why was my name written there? Shen Fang grabbed my neck, screaming hoarsely, "What did you do to Ni Ni?" "Did you hurt her?" "Why aren’t you dead…
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After being released from detention, Shen Fang called every tutor to make sure Xu Ni caught up on all missed classes. Then she rushed to the kitchen to prepare meals for Xu Ni. At first, she glared at me, ready to hit. I shook my phone. "Try me, and I’ll call the police again." Shen Fang was fuming. "Give Ni Ni back her phone." "No. Buy her a new one or she’ll never use one again." Shen Fang’s face turned red as she pulled Xu Ni aside to interrogate her. Xu Ni shook her head and said…
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Xiaomei couldn’t stop raving about the new exchange student during lunch. "You have to believe me, even just his side profile blows Rui Chen out of the water." She tried to show me blurry photos, but after everything with Rui Chen and Zhou Wang, I had a solid case of "hot-guy PTSD." I managed to avoid her matchmaking, only to see Su Miao striding straight toward me. "Mu Xing, can we talk?" she said coldly. She led me behind the cafeteria, away from prying eyes, dropping her "sweet girl" mask and…-
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The landlord called. Turns out the building’s circuits were fried. He’d send an electrician tomorrow. Under the circumstances, Ling Yan reluctantly agreed to sleep on the pillow next to mine for the night. "So, you are afraid of ghosts?" I asked again, hiding under the quilt. He shot me a proud, wounded look, huffed "Go to sleep," and burrowed in deeper. When the landlord brought a repairman the next morning, I had to smuggle Ling Yan to school in my largest backpack, leaving a little gap so…
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After school, I got ambushed on my usual route by a notorious bully. My heart ached as I fished out my last two hundred yuan, the exact money I’d scrimped and saved for cat fish oil. The bully grabbed my chin, sneering at my show of helplessness. "Acting pitiful doesn’t work on me." "Okay, okay," I smiled nervously, slyly sliding the bills back into my pocket. He spotted it, snorted, and let go. "You’re only with Rui Chen for his money, aren’t you?" For his money? It felt like a cold…
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"Yuxin, want to go to the grocery store after class?" my best friend Xiaomei asked as we tossed our books into our bags at Minghai High. "Nope, nope," I replied without hesitation, not bothering to look up as I packed away my pencils. "But the shop owner just adopted a new kitten, a little cream ball," Xiaomei pleaded, knowing all too well my weakness for anything soft and furry. But this time, she miscalculated. "You go ahead, I’ve really got something to do," I explained, clutching my bag a…
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