Mary Maloney is waiting for her husband Patrick to return home from work. When he arrives, he tells her shocking news - that he wants a divorce. Enraged, Mary hits Patrick over the head with a frozen leg of lamb, killing him. She then stages the crime scene to look like an accident and calls the police. When they arrive, she pretends to be distraught over discovering his body. The police begin to investigate, finding evidence of dried blood on Patrick's head.
Joanne was stuck in traffic on her way home from work and was running late to a tennis club meeting. When she arrived home, she noticed her dog Sheba was choking and took her to the vet. The vet removed three human fingers from Sheba's throat, revealing an injured burglar was hiding in Joanne's house. The police arrested the burglar while Joanne was changing clothes at home.
Eve 2000 by Dr. Zahoor Hussain (Pakistan)Ali Lodhra
this is a three act play by Dr. Zahoor Hussain. in this play the situation of a today's women is described in a sophisticated way to describe the real issue in a better way.
Before The Vanishing - Marco Siena (First 3 chapters) English Version Butter...Francesca EvilMatteini
The document discusses the mysterious disappearances of elderly people from several nursing homes. Peter notices reports of staff under investigation for kidnapping and murder at a nursing home in Padua, Italy. He also overhears his father mention a similar situation at a nursing home in Chieti. At work, Peter asks his friend Pablo if the missing elderly boss has been found, but Pablo is unaware of the situation. Peter believes hundreds of elderly people may be disappearing from care facilities across the country.
This document is a summary of 6 chapters from a story. In chapter 1, Arjun and Chloe flirt over text messages but she ends their conversation abruptly when someone comes to the door. In chapter 2, Chloe's friend Hazel comes over for a girls night. In chapter 3, they oversleep and rush to get ready. In chapter 4, they arrive late to their college event but find out it was postponed. Arjun expresses his feelings for Chloe but is pulled away. In chapter 5, Sameer kisses Chloe forcibly and locks her in a room. In chapter 6, Sameer lies to Sebina, saying Chloe agreed to be his girlfriend, but doesn't say where she
Alea holds a seance for the Thompson family at their home. During the seance, the spirit of the Thompsons' mother appears but cannot stay long. Other spirits grow angry and the ceiling collapses, killing the Thompson family. Alea wakes up confused and discovers people cannot see or hear her. She realizes she may be dead. After encounters where people walk through her, Alea meets with a psychic who confirms she is dead. However, Alea's sister is able to hear her on the phone, reassuring Alea that she is in fact still alive.
Helen has suffered a stroke and is struggling to communicate what has happened to her. When her carer Jill arrives, Helen tries to tell her about the stroke but is unable to get the words out. Jill does not understand and goes about her morning tasks. In the ambulance, the paramedic examines Helen but she is unable to answer his questions coherently or recall important words like "stroke". Helen's language and memory abilities have been impaired by the medical emergency she has experienced.
Joanne was stuck in traffic on her way home from work and was running late to a tennis club meeting. When she arrived home, she noticed her dog Sheba was choking and took her to the vet. The vet removed three human fingers from Sheba's throat, revealing an injured burglar was hiding in Joanne's house. The police arrested the burglar while Joanne was changing clothes at home.
Eve 2000 by Dr. Zahoor Hussain (Pakistan)Ali Lodhra
this is a three act play by Dr. Zahoor Hussain. in this play the situation of a today's women is described in a sophisticated way to describe the real issue in a better way.
Before The Vanishing - Marco Siena (First 3 chapters) English Version Butter...Francesca EvilMatteini
The document discusses the mysterious disappearances of elderly people from several nursing homes. Peter notices reports of staff under investigation for kidnapping and murder at a nursing home in Padua, Italy. He also overhears his father mention a similar situation at a nursing home in Chieti. At work, Peter asks his friend Pablo if the missing elderly boss has been found, but Pablo is unaware of the situation. Peter believes hundreds of elderly people may be disappearing from care facilities across the country.
This document is a summary of 6 chapters from a story. In chapter 1, Arjun and Chloe flirt over text messages but she ends their conversation abruptly when someone comes to the door. In chapter 2, Chloe's friend Hazel comes over for a girls night. In chapter 3, they oversleep and rush to get ready. In chapter 4, they arrive late to their college event but find out it was postponed. Arjun expresses his feelings for Chloe but is pulled away. In chapter 5, Sameer kisses Chloe forcibly and locks her in a room. In chapter 6, Sameer lies to Sebina, saying Chloe agreed to be his girlfriend, but doesn't say where she
Alea holds a seance for the Thompson family at their home. During the seance, the spirit of the Thompsons' mother appears but cannot stay long. Other spirits grow angry and the ceiling collapses, killing the Thompson family. Alea wakes up confused and discovers people cannot see or hear her. She realizes she may be dead. After encounters where people walk through her, Alea meets with a psychic who confirms she is dead. However, Alea's sister is able to hear her on the phone, reassuring Alea that she is in fact still alive.
Helen has suffered a stroke and is struggling to communicate what has happened to her. When her carer Jill arrives, Helen tries to tell her about the stroke but is unable to get the words out. Jill does not understand and goes about her morning tasks. In the ambulance, the paramedic examines Helen but she is unable to answer his questions coherently or recall important words like "stroke". Helen's language and memory abilities have been impaired by the medical emergency she has experienced.
The document appears to be an excerpt from a novel. It describes a day in the lives of some engineering students in their final semester. They are taking many classes to try and earn enough credits to graduate on time after facing disciplinary issues the previous semester. One of the characters meets up with his girlfriend Neha for a brief date, where she gives him a letter from her brother for safekeeping. The characters discuss their heavy course loads and goals of learning as much as possible before completing their degrees.
2 the invisible man, by h. g class - xiiYash Gehlot
This document is the introduction to Project Gutenberg's eBook version of H.G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man". It provides some background on the novel and notes that the full text is available free of charge. It then summarizes the contents of the first chapter, which describes a mysterious bandaged stranger arriving at an inn during a snowstorm and his odd interactions with the innkeeper Mrs. Hall, leaving her confused about his appearance and purpose.
Alice Jackson killed her husband Henry on their 10th wedding anniversary. She hit him over the head with an ice statue when he told her he was in love with another woman and leaving her. Alice then staged the scene to make it look like a burglary had occurred. When the police arrived, Alice pretended to be distraught over finding Henry dead. However, the police began to grow suspicious as clues emerged that it was not a burglary. They discovered that the ice statue used to kill Henry was melting in the heat.
This chapter provides backstory on Hari and his friends as they work to complete their final semester of engineering studies after facing disciplinary action. It describes Hari rushing to meet Neha for a date but being late due to an assignment. They discuss Hari and his friends intensely focusing on their studies now to ensure they graduate. Neha shares that Cherian questioned the integrity of their special project findings with the dean. The chapter shows Hari striving to learn and graduate despite facing obstacles and doubters along the way.
Holmes and Watson visit Helen Stoner, whose sister Julia died two years ago in strange circumstances. Helen is worried because she has heard strange noises and her life may be in danger from her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Holmes and Watson agree to spend the night in Julia's old room at Stoke Moran manor to investigate. Holmes suspects Roylott of foul play in Julia's death and that Helen's life may now be at risk as well.
This document appears to be an excerpt from a novel. It describes interactions between several characters - Hari, Neha, Ryan, and Alok. The main events are:
1) Hari calls Neha after a month of not speaking, and they agree to meet for ice cream to discuss their issues.
2) Hari visits Ryan and Alok, and finds Alok's mother has come to check on him. She discovers his legs are in casts, contrary to his claims of being busy with a project.
3) Flashback reveals the characters were involved in an incident called "Operation Pendulum" that got them in trouble. Hari works to reconcile with Neha
The document introduces Vonne Benedettoo, an 18-year-old demigod daughter of the goddess of spite. She lives in England with her father but attends Camp Half-Blood in the summer. The story follows Vonne as she deals with her father being arrested for drunk driving and prepares to go to camp. At camp, Vonne has a feeling she will betray her friends. The story continues with Vonne fighting in a chaotic battle and ultimately committing suicide by jumping off a cliff.
Henry tells his wife Alice that he is leaving her for another woman on their 10th wedding anniversary. When he turns his back, Alice hits him over the head with an ice sculpture, killing him. She stages it to look like a burglary but starts to overheat the house to melt the evidence. The police and her friends who arrive for the party grow suspicious as the ice sculpture fully melts, revealing Alice's murder weapon and motive.
The document is a summary of the first chapter of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger. It describes the main character, Meursault, receiving a telegram informing him of his mother's death at an old-age home. He makes arrangements to travel there for the funeral vigil. At the home, he meets with the warden and is shown his mother's body in the mortuary, where he will keep vigil. Other elderly residents who knew his mother arrive to join the vigil.
The document is the first chapter of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger. It introduces the main character, Meursault, who receives a telegram informing him that his mother has passed away at an old people's home. He travels there to identify the body and spend the night in vigil. When he arrives, the warden criticizes Meursault for not visiting his mother more often. Meursault is then taken to see his mother's coffin, but tells the attendant he does not need to open the lid to view her body.
This document is a screenplay that tells the story of Charlotte, a 16-year-old girl who goes missing on her way to a friend's house after arguing with her parents. Her friends realize she never arrived and go to her house, where her indifferent parents claim not to know where she is. The next day, a police officer questions the parents, who give vague and inconsistent answers. The screenplay hints that the parents may be hiding something about Charlotte's disappearance.
1) The narrator takes a week off work pretending to be sick after a funeral goes badly. She spends the week drinking wine and eating junk food on the couch.
2) On Thursday, her boss calls to ask for a sick note. In a panic, the narrator goes to the doctor and gets a note saying she has a cold.
3) That night, the narrator goes out with a friend. However, she runs into her boss at the bar who calls her out for lying about being sick. He tells her to see him in his office on Monday.
This document provides a summary of three key events:
1) Dawn goes on a date with her boyfriend Don at a restaurant. They have an intimate encounter afterwards that Dawn has mixed feelings about, feeling both pleasure and vulnerability.
2) The next morning, Dawn discovers Don has left early. When she calls his phone, another woman answers, implying Don is seeing others. Dawn is heartbroken.
3) Dawn decides to leave town, calling a family friend to arrange a trip to France as soon as possible to escape her pain. She hurriedly packs and prepares to leave everything behind.
A security guard tours an empty office building late at night. On one floor, he finds a woman tied up and blindfolded. He proceeds to sexually assault her. Afterward, he pretends to rescue her and leaves her untied. The woman thanks him for being her "savior." Later, the security guard sees the woman around the office building and she still refers to him as her savior, while rumors spread that she is promiscuous with other men in the office.
Alice Jackson murdered her husband Henry on their 10th wedding anniversary. When Henry told Alice he was in love with someone else and leaving her, Alice hit him over the head with an ice statue. Alice then cleverly staged the crime scene to make it look like a burglary gone wrong. The police investigated but began to suspect Alice as the ice statue used to commit the murder started melting in the hot room.
Alice Jackson is happily married with a baby son, but her husband Henry tells her he is in love with another woman, Kathy, on their tenth wedding anniversary. Shocked, Alice decides to continue with their party plans. When Henry turns his back, Alice hits him over the head with an ice statue, killing him. She then calls the police and claims burglars committed the murder. As the police investigate, the melting ice statue reveals evidence of Alice's crime.
Mary Maloney is waiting for her husband to return home from work. When he arrives, he tells her a shocking revelation - that he wants a divorce. Upset, Mary walks to the cellar and retrieves a frozen leg of lamb. When her husband says he won't eat supper and is leaving, Mary hits him forcefully on the head with the lamb, killing him. She then begins planning how to avoid getting caught for the murder, including cooking the murder weapon in the oven and practicing being cheerful at the grocery store to establish an alibi.
A Corporate Conspiracy Chpt 1.5 Myths and LiesStephanie Sahr
Goopy Gilscarbo, the boss of a small subsidiary corporation, has been drinking heavily and missing work for a week. His executive assistant Heidi tries to get him to return to work as the owner of the larger corporation will be visiting that night for an inspection. Meanwhile, Stanley accidentally hit his daughter Melinda in the head with a vase the night before, thinking she was an intruder. His wife Cat sends him to see a doctor while she cares for Melinda and keeps the family separated from Stanley until they better understand his condition.
The document appears to be an excerpt from a novel. It describes a day in the lives of some engineering students in their final semester. They are taking many classes to try and earn enough credits to graduate on time after facing disciplinary issues the previous semester. One of the characters meets up with his girlfriend Neha for a brief date, where she gives him a letter from her brother for safekeeping. The characters discuss their heavy course loads and goals of learning as much as possible before completing their degrees.
2 the invisible man, by h. g class - xiiYash Gehlot
This document is the introduction to Project Gutenberg's eBook version of H.G. Wells' novel "The Invisible Man". It provides some background on the novel and notes that the full text is available free of charge. It then summarizes the contents of the first chapter, which describes a mysterious bandaged stranger arriving at an inn during a snowstorm and his odd interactions with the innkeeper Mrs. Hall, leaving her confused about his appearance and purpose.
Alice Jackson killed her husband Henry on their 10th wedding anniversary. She hit him over the head with an ice statue when he told her he was in love with another woman and leaving her. Alice then staged the scene to make it look like a burglary had occurred. When the police arrived, Alice pretended to be distraught over finding Henry dead. However, the police began to grow suspicious as clues emerged that it was not a burglary. They discovered that the ice statue used to kill Henry was melting in the heat.
This chapter provides backstory on Hari and his friends as they work to complete their final semester of engineering studies after facing disciplinary action. It describes Hari rushing to meet Neha for a date but being late due to an assignment. They discuss Hari and his friends intensely focusing on their studies now to ensure they graduate. Neha shares that Cherian questioned the integrity of their special project findings with the dean. The chapter shows Hari striving to learn and graduate despite facing obstacles and doubters along the way.
Holmes and Watson visit Helen Stoner, whose sister Julia died two years ago in strange circumstances. Helen is worried because she has heard strange noises and her life may be in danger from her stepfather, Dr. Grimesby Roylott. Holmes and Watson agree to spend the night in Julia's old room at Stoke Moran manor to investigate. Holmes suspects Roylott of foul play in Julia's death and that Helen's life may now be at risk as well.
This document appears to be an excerpt from a novel. It describes interactions between several characters - Hari, Neha, Ryan, and Alok. The main events are:
1) Hari calls Neha after a month of not speaking, and they agree to meet for ice cream to discuss their issues.
2) Hari visits Ryan and Alok, and finds Alok's mother has come to check on him. She discovers his legs are in casts, contrary to his claims of being busy with a project.
3) Flashback reveals the characters were involved in an incident called "Operation Pendulum" that got them in trouble. Hari works to reconcile with Neha
The document introduces Vonne Benedettoo, an 18-year-old demigod daughter of the goddess of spite. She lives in England with her father but attends Camp Half-Blood in the summer. The story follows Vonne as she deals with her father being arrested for drunk driving and prepares to go to camp. At camp, Vonne has a feeling she will betray her friends. The story continues with Vonne fighting in a chaotic battle and ultimately committing suicide by jumping off a cliff.
Henry tells his wife Alice that he is leaving her for another woman on their 10th wedding anniversary. When he turns his back, Alice hits him over the head with an ice sculpture, killing him. She stages it to look like a burglary but starts to overheat the house to melt the evidence. The police and her friends who arrive for the party grow suspicious as the ice sculpture fully melts, revealing Alice's murder weapon and motive.
The document is a summary of the first chapter of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger. It describes the main character, Meursault, receiving a telegram informing him of his mother's death at an old-age home. He makes arrangements to travel there for the funeral vigil. At the home, he meets with the warden and is shown his mother's body in the mortuary, where he will keep vigil. Other elderly residents who knew his mother arrive to join the vigil.
The document is the first chapter of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger. It introduces the main character, Meursault, who receives a telegram informing him that his mother has passed away at an old people's home. He travels there to identify the body and spend the night in vigil. When he arrives, the warden criticizes Meursault for not visiting his mother more often. Meursault is then taken to see his mother's coffin, but tells the attendant he does not need to open the lid to view her body.
This document is a screenplay that tells the story of Charlotte, a 16-year-old girl who goes missing on her way to a friend's house after arguing with her parents. Her friends realize she never arrived and go to her house, where her indifferent parents claim not to know where she is. The next day, a police officer questions the parents, who give vague and inconsistent answers. The screenplay hints that the parents may be hiding something about Charlotte's disappearance.
1) The narrator takes a week off work pretending to be sick after a funeral goes badly. She spends the week drinking wine and eating junk food on the couch.
2) On Thursday, her boss calls to ask for a sick note. In a panic, the narrator goes to the doctor and gets a note saying she has a cold.
3) That night, the narrator goes out with a friend. However, she runs into her boss at the bar who calls her out for lying about being sick. He tells her to see him in his office on Monday.
This document provides a summary of three key events:
1) Dawn goes on a date with her boyfriend Don at a restaurant. They have an intimate encounter afterwards that Dawn has mixed feelings about, feeling both pleasure and vulnerability.
2) The next morning, Dawn discovers Don has left early. When she calls his phone, another woman answers, implying Don is seeing others. Dawn is heartbroken.
3) Dawn decides to leave town, calling a family friend to arrange a trip to France as soon as possible to escape her pain. She hurriedly packs and prepares to leave everything behind.
A security guard tours an empty office building late at night. On one floor, he finds a woman tied up and blindfolded. He proceeds to sexually assault her. Afterward, he pretends to rescue her and leaves her untied. The woman thanks him for being her "savior." Later, the security guard sees the woman around the office building and she still refers to him as her savior, while rumors spread that she is promiscuous with other men in the office.
Alice Jackson murdered her husband Henry on their 10th wedding anniversary. When Henry told Alice he was in love with someone else and leaving her, Alice hit him over the head with an ice statue. Alice then cleverly staged the crime scene to make it look like a burglary gone wrong. The police investigated but began to suspect Alice as the ice statue used to commit the murder started melting in the hot room.
Alice Jackson is happily married with a baby son, but her husband Henry tells her he is in love with another woman, Kathy, on their tenth wedding anniversary. Shocked, Alice decides to continue with their party plans. When Henry turns his back, Alice hits him over the head with an ice statue, killing him. She then calls the police and claims burglars committed the murder. As the police investigate, the melting ice statue reveals evidence of Alice's crime.
Mary Maloney is waiting for her husband to return home from work. When he arrives, he tells her a shocking revelation - that he wants a divorce. Upset, Mary walks to the cellar and retrieves a frozen leg of lamb. When her husband says he won't eat supper and is leaving, Mary hits him forcefully on the head with the lamb, killing him. She then begins planning how to avoid getting caught for the murder, including cooking the murder weapon in the oven and practicing being cheerful at the grocery store to establish an alibi.
A Corporate Conspiracy Chpt 1.5 Myths and LiesStephanie Sahr
Goopy Gilscarbo, the boss of a small subsidiary corporation, has been drinking heavily and missing work for a week. His executive assistant Heidi tries to get him to return to work as the owner of the larger corporation will be visiting that night for an inspection. Meanwhile, Stanley accidentally hit his daughter Melinda in the head with a vase the night before, thinking she was an intruder. His wife Cat sends him to see a doctor while she cares for Melinda and keeps the family separated from Stanley until they better understand his condition.
1) Soledad, Pedro's wife, finds the small key to his trunk in his coat and becomes consumed with jealousy over his first wife's possessions in the trunk. 2) In a feverish state, Soledad unlocks the trunk and empties its contents, burning some of the items. She then falls ill. 3) Pedro discovers the burned items and realizes what Soledad has done. He is puzzled and worried about the incident and how it will affect their relationship going forward.
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Shame
Dick Gregory
I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that. I was about seven years old when I got my first big lesson. I was in love with a little girl named Helene Tucker, a light-complexioned little girl with pigtails and nice manners. She was always clean and she was smart in school. I think I went to school then mostly to look at her. I brushed my hair and even got me a little old handkerchief. It was a lady's handkerchief, but I didn't want Helene to see me wipe my nose on my hand.
The pipes were frozen again, there was no water in the house, but I washed my socks and shirt every night. I'd get a pot, and go over to Mister Ben's grocery store, and stick my pot down into his soda machine and scoop out some chopped ice. By evening the ice melted to water for washing. I got sick a lot that winter because the fire would go out at night before the clothes were dry. In the morning I'd put them on, wet or dry, because they were the only clothes I had.
Everybody's got a Helene Tucker, a symbol of everything you want. I loved her for her goodness, her cleanness, her popularity. She'd walk down my street and my brothers and sisters would yell, "Here comes Helene," and I'd rub my tennis sneakers on the back of my pants and wish my hair wasn't so nappy and the white folks' shirt fit me better. I'd run out on the street. If I knew my place and didn't come too close, she'd wink at me and say hello. That was a good feeling. Sometimes I'd follow her all the way home, and shovel the snow off her walk and try to make friends with her momma and her aunts. I'd drop money on her stoop late at night on my way back from shining shoes in the taverns. And she had a daddy, and he had a good job. He was a paperhanger.
I guess I would have gotten over Helene by summertime, but something happened in that classroom that made her face hang in front of me for the next twenty-two years. When I played the drums in high school, it was for Helene, and when I broke track records in college, it was for Helene, and when I started standing behind microphones and heard applause, I wished Helene could hear it too. It wasn't until I was twenty-nine years old and married and making money that I finally got her out of my system. Helene was sitting in that classroom when I learned to be ashamed of myself.
It was on a Thursday. I was sitting in the back of the room, in a seat with a chalk circle drawn around it. The idiot's seat, the troublemaker's seat.
The teacher thought I was stupid. Couldn't spell, couldn't read, couldn't do arithmetic. Just stupid. Teachers were never interested in finding out that you couldn't concentrate because you were so hungry, because you hadn't had any breakfast. All you could think about was noontime; would it ever come? Maybe you could sneak into the cloakroom and steal a bite of some kid's lunch out of a coat pocket. A bite of something. Paste. You can't really make a meal of paste, or put it on bread for a .
The poem compares the behavior of vultures to that of the commandant of the Belsen concentration camp. It describes vultures nesting together after picking the eyes out of a corpse and eating its insides. Similarly, the commandant would come home from the camp, where humans were roasted, still smelling of death, yet stop to buy chocolate for his child. The poem suggests that even in those capable of great cruelty, a small tenderness for their offspring ensures the continuation of evil in the world.
This document is a collection of diary entries and dreams from a woman named Alex Destiny about her relationship and marriage to her husband Jimmy. The entries describe their nightly coffee ritual on the roof, followed by disturbing nightmares where Alex finds Jimmy behaving violently or her own dead body. She questions what is real and wakes up distressed. The dreams leave her feeling unsettled and make her question her relationship with Jimmy.
Quinn acted heroically but accidentally caused the death of Zane's wife Tina. Bella Goth has returned to work with Lillian. Puck Summerdream, a reaper-elf hybrid, had his powers stripped and is now mortal. He has been sentenced to die of old age as punishment for refusing his role as a reaper.
The narrator was attacked and bitten by a dog, requiring stitches. They woke up in the hospital confused and disoriented. Their family explained that they were attacked after taunting a dog with friends. The dog dug under the fence and dragged the narrator down, biting their thigh. After three days in the hospital, the narrator was discharged with medication and returned home to recover.
Dawn discovers she is pregnant after a trip to France. She realizes the father, Don, is a liar and cheat after a woman answers his phone while he was showering. Dawn tells Don she is pregnant. Though distrustful of him, Don enthusiastically proposes marriage. Dawn remains unsure given his infidelity and wonders if he truly loves her.
1) A young couple, Madge and Louis, live with their autistic daughter Rachel in a small town. Louis buys an antique clock that is rumored to be bewitched.
2) Strange events start occurring after the clock is brought home, including Rachel becoming fixated on it. Louis tries to get rid of the clock but it keeps returning.
3) Madge finds Louis' dead body at their neighbor's house who was given the clock. Rachel laughs in an evil way. Madge falls into depression and Rachel spends hours staring at the clock.
1) A young couple, Madge and Louis, live with their autistic daughter Rachel in a small town. Louis buys an antique clock that is rumored to be bewitched.
2) Strange events start occurring after the clock is brought home, including Rachel becoming fixated on it. Louis tries to get rid of the clock but it keeps returning.
3) Madge finds Louis' dead body at their neighbor's house who had been given the clock. Rachel laughs in an evil way. Madge falls into depression while Rachel stays locked in her room staring at the clock.
This summary provides the key details and events from the short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver:
A blind man, who is an old friend of the narrator's wife, is visiting them after the death of his wife Beulah. The narrator is uncomfortable with the visit and harbors stereotypes about blindness. His wife informs him about the blind man's relationship with Beulah, how they were married for eight years until she passed away from cancer. The blind man arrives and the narrator reluctantly greets him, realizing he should support his wife in welcoming her old friend during his time of grief.
Tommy agrees to accompany his mother Leah to a Halloween party after his father cancels on attending with her. Tommy is unhappy with the silly Batman costume his father chose for him to wear. When Leah comes downstairs dressed in a revealing black dress, Tommy is stunned by how attractive he finds his mother's appearance. Leah asks if he likes what he sees, seemingly unaware of how provocatively she is dressed.
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Cathedral
By Raymond Carver (1981)
This blind man, an old friend of my wife’s, he was on his way to
spend the night. His wife had died. So he was visiting the dead wife’s
relatives in Connecticut. He called my wife from his in-law’s. Arrangements
were made. He would come by train, a five-hour trip, and my wife would
meet him at the station. She hadn’t seen him since she worked for him one
summer in Seattle ten years ago. But she and the blind man had kept in
touch. They made tapes and mailed them back and forth. I wasn’t
enthusiastic about his visit. He was no one I knew. And his being blind
bothered me. My idea of blindness came from the movies. In the movies, the
blind moved slowly and never laughed. Sometimes they were led by seeing-
eye dogs. A blind man in my house was not something I looked forward to.
That summer in Seattle she had needed a job. She didn’t have any
money. The man she was going to marry at the end of the summer was in
officers’ training school. He didn’t have any money, either. But she was in
love with the guy, and he was in love with her, etc. She’d seen something in
the paper: HELP WANTED—Reading to Blind Man, and a telephone
number. She phoned and went over, was hired on the spot. She worked with
this blind man all summer. She read stuff to him, case studies, reports, that
sort of thing. She helped him organize his little office in the county social-
service department. They’d become good friends, my wife and the blind
man. On her last day in the office, the blind man asked if he could touch her
face. She agreed to this. She told me he touched his fingers to every part of
her face, her nose—even her neck! She never forgot it. She even tried to
write a poem about it. She was always trying to write a poem. She wrote a
poem or two every year, usually after something really important had
happened to her.
When we first started going out together, she showed me the poem. In
the poem, she recalled his fingers and the way they had moved around over
her face. In the poem, she talked about what she had felt at the time, about
what went through her mind when the blind man touched her nose and lips. I
can remember I didn’t think much of the poem. Of course, I didn’t tell her
that. Maybe I just don’t understand poetry. I admit it’s not the first thing I
reach for when I pick up something to read.
Anyway, this man who’d first enjoyed her favors, this officer-to-be,
he’d been her childhood sweetheart. So okay. I’m saying that at the end of
the summer she let the blind man run his hands over her face, said good-bye
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to him, married her childhood etc., who was now a commissioned officer,
and she moved away from Seattle. But they’d keep in touch, she and the
blind man. She made the first contact after a year or so. She called him up
one night from an Air Force base in Alabama. She wanted to talk. They
talked. He asked her to send him a tape and tell him about her life. She did ...
The man was reading the paper in his study when the housekeeper entered to ask about preparing supper. He seemed distracted and hurriedly told her to call the driver and bring the car out front. When she asked if they wanted chicken or beef, he was annoyed and said there were more pressing matters. He then took a gun from his desk and put it in his coat pocket before leaving for an hour.
Lucine receives another disturbing love note in her locker from her stalker. When her friend Akira reads it, he gets angry and wants to find the stalker. Lucine receives another note in her locker after class that threatens Akira, making her worried for his safety. As she walks home, a strange man in a van offers her a ride, which unnerves her. She arrives home safely and plans to talk to the family maid, Khirana, about her stalking situation.
Lucine receives another disturbing love note in her locker from her stalker. When her friend Akira reads it, he gets angry and wants to find the stalker. Lucine then receives another note in her locker that threatens Akira, causing her to become worried for his safety. On her walk home, a strange man in a van offers her a ride, making her feel uneasy. When she arrives home, she seeks out the maid Khirana to talk about her stalker situation.
The document is a first-person narrative that describes the speaker's history of being in multiple foster homes and states. It focuses on their most recent experience, where they were adopted by a couple, Damen and Rose Alexander. Initially things seemed normal, but Damen became physically abusive after the speaker refused to answer questions. After being beaten, the speaker planned to run away by taking money from Damen's office and taking a train to Pennsylvania in the night. They hoped to find a safer place to hide out.
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1. LAMB TO THE SLAUGHTER by ROALD DAHL
The room was warm, the curtains were closed, the two table lamps were lit. On the cupboard behind her there were two glasses and
some drinks. Mary Maloney was waiting for her husband to come home from work.
Now and again she glanced at the clock, but without anxiety: She merely wanted to satisfy herself that each minute that went by
made it nearer the time when he would come home. As she bent over her sewing, she was curiously peaceful. This was her sixth
month expecting a child. Her mouth and her eyes, with their new calm look, seemed larger and darker than before.
When the clock said ten minutes to five, she began to listen, and a few moments later, punctually as always, she heard the car tires
on the stones outside, the car door closing, footsteps passing the window, the key turning in the lock. She stood up and went
forward to kiss him as he entered.
"Hello, darling," she said.
"Hello," he answered.
She took his coat and hung it up. Then she made the drinks, a strong one for him and a weak one for herself; and soon she was
back again in her chair with the sewing, and he was in the other chair, holding the tall glass, rolling it gently so that the ice knocked
musically against the side of the glass.
For her, this was always a wonderful time of day. She knew he didn't want to speak much until the first drink was finished, and she
was satisfied to sit quietly, enjoying his company after the long hours alone in the house. She loved the warmth that came out of
him when they were alone together. She loved the shape of his mouth, and she especially liked the way he didn't complain about
being tired.
"Tired, darling?"
"Yes," he sighed. "I'm thoroughly exhausted. And as he spoke, he did an unusual thing. He lifted his glass and drank it down in one
swallow although there was still half of it left. He got up and went slowly to get himself another drink.
"I'll get it!" she cried, jumping up.
"Sit down," he said.
When he came back, she noticed that the new drink was a very strong one. She watched him as he began to drink.
"I think it's a shame," she said, "that when someone's been a policeman as long as you have, he still has to walk around all day
long." He didn't answer. "Darling," she said," If you're too tired to eat out tonight, as we had planned, I can fix you something.
There's plenty of meat and stuff in the freezer." Her eyes waited to an answer, a smile, a nod, but he made no sign.
"Anyway," she went on. "I'll get you some bread and cheese."
"I don't want it," he said.
She moved uneasily in her chair. "But you have to have supper. I can easily fix you something. I'd like to do it. We can have lamb.
Anything you want. Everything's in the freezer."
"Forget it," he said.
"But, darling, you have to eat! I'll do it anyway, and then you can have it or not, as you like."
She stood up and put placed her sewing on the table by the lamp. "Sit down," he said. "Just for a minute, sit down." It wasn't until
then that she began to get frightened.
"Go on," he said. "Sit down." She lowered herself into the chair, watching him all the time with large, puzzled eyes. He had
finished his second drink and was staring into the glass.
2. "Listen," he said. "I've got something to tell you."
"What is it, darling? What's the matter?"
He became absolutely motionless, and he kept his head down.
"This is going to be a big shock to you, I'm afraid," he said. "But I've thought about it a good deal and I've decided that the only
thing to do is to tell you immediately." And he told her. It didn't take long, four or five minutes at most, and she sat still through it
all, watching him with puzzled horror.
"So there it is," he added. "And I know it's a tough time to be telling you this, but there simply wasn't any other way. Of course, I'll
give you money and see that you're taken care of. But there really shouldn't be any problem. I hope not, in any case. It wouldn't be
very good for my job."
Her first instinct was not to believe any of it. She thought that perhaps she'd imagined the whole thing. Perhaps, if she acted as
though she had not heard him, she would find out that none of it had ever happened.
"I'll fix some supper," she whispered. When she walked across the room, she couldn't feel her feet touching the floor. She couldn't
feel anything except a slight sickness. She did everything without thinking. She went downstairs to the freezer and took hold of the
first object she found. She lifted it out, and looked at it. It was wrapped in paper, so she took off the paper and looked at again --- a
leg of lamb.
All right, then, they would have lamb for supper. She carried it upstairs, held the thin end with both her hands. She went into the
living room, saw him standing by the window with his back to her, and stopped.
"I've already told you," he said. "Don't make supper for me. I'm going out."
At that point, Mary Maloney simply walked up behind him and without any pause, she swung the big frozen leg of lamb high in
the air and brought it down as hard as she could on the back of his head. She might as well have hit him with a steel bar.
She stepped back, waiting, and the strange thing was that he remained standing there for at least four or five seconds. Then he
crashed onto the carpet.
The violence of the crash, the noise, the small table overturning, helped to bring her out of the shock. She came out slowly, feeling
cold and surprised, and she stood for a few minutes, looking at the body, still holding the piece of meat tightly with both hands.
All right, she told herself. So I've killed him.
It was extraordinary, now, how clear her mind became all of a sudden. She began thinking very fast. As the wife of a detective, she
knew what the punishment would be. It made no difference to her. In fact, it would be a relief. On the other hand, what about the
baby? What were the laws about murderers with unborn children? Did they kill them both -- mother and child? Did they wait until
the baby was born? What did they do? Mary Maloney didn't know and she wasn't prepared to take a chance.
She carried the meat into the kitchen, put it into a pan, turned on the oven, and put the pan inside. Then she washed her hands, ran
upstairs, sat down in front of the mirror, fixed her makeup, and tried to smile.
The smile was rather peculiar. She tried again. "Hello, Sam" she said brightly, aloud. The voice sounded peculiar, too. "I want
some potatoes, Sam. Yes, and perhaps a can of bean.s." That was better. Both the smile and the voice sounded better now. She
practiced them several times more. Then she ran downstairs, took her coat, and went out the back door, through the garden into the
street.
It wasn't six o'clock yet and the lights were still on in the neighborhood grocery. "Hello, Sam," she said brightly, smiling at the man
in the shop.
3. "Good evening, Mrs. Maloney. How are you?"
"I want some potatoes, please, Sam. Yes, and perhaps a can of beans, too. Patrick's decided he's tired and he doesn't want to eat out
tonight," she told him. "We usually go out on Thursdays, you know, and now I don't have any vegetables in the house."
"Then how about some meat, Mrs. Maloney?" asked the grocer.
"No, I've got meat, thanks, I've got a nice leg of lamb, from the freezer."
"Do you want these potatoes, Mrs. Maloney?
"Oh, yes, they'll be fine. Two pounds, please."
"Anything else?" The grocer turned his head to one side, looking at her. "How about dessert? What are you going to give him for
dessert? How about a nice piece of cake? I know he likes cake."
"Perfect," she said. "He loves it."
And when she had bought and paid for everything, she gave her brightest smile and said, "Thank you, Sam. Good night."
And now, she told herself as she hurried back home, she was returning to her husband and he was waiting for his supper. She had
to cook it well and make it taste as good as possible, because the poor man was tired; and if she found anything unusual or terrible
when she got home, then it would be a shock and she would have to react with grief and horror. Of course, she was not expecting
to find anything unusual at home. She was just going home with the vegetables on Thursday evening to cook dinner for husband.
That's the way, she told herself. Do everything normally. Keep things absolutely natural and there'll be no need for acting at all. As
she entered the kitchen by the back door, she was quietly singing to herself.
"Patrick!" she called. "How are you, darling?"
She put the package on the table and went into the living room; and when she saw him lying there on the floor, it really was a
shock. All the old love for him came back to her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and began to cry hard. It was
easy. No acting was necessary.
A few minutes later, she got up and went to the phone. She knew the number of the police station, and when the man at the other
end answered, she cried to him. "Quick! Come quickly! Patrick's dead."
"Who's speaking?"
"Mrs. Maloney. Mrs. Patrick Maloney."
"Do you mean that Patrick's dead?"
"I think so, " she cried. "He's lying on the floor and I think he's dead."
"We'll be there immediately," the man said.
The car came very quickly, and when she opened the front door, two policemen walked in. She knew them both. She knew nearly
all the men at the police station. She fell into Jack Noonan's arms, crying uncontrollably. He put her gently into a chair.
"Is he dead?" she cried.
"I'm afraid he is. What happened?"
In a few words she told her story about going to the grocer and coming back, when she found him on the floor. While she was
crying and talking, Noonan found some dried blood on the dead man's head. He hurried to the phone.
Some other men began to arrive -- a doctor, two detectives, a police photographer, and a man who knew about fingerprints. The
4. detectives kept asking her a lot of questions. They always treated her kindly. She told them how she'd put the meat into the overn -"it's there now"--and how she had gone to the grocer's for vegetables and how she came back to find him lying on the floor.
The two detectives were exceptionally nice to her. They searched the house. Sometimes Jack Noonan spoke to her gently. He told
her that her husband had been killed by a blow to the back of the head. They were looking for the weapon. The murderer might
have taken it with him, but he might have thrown it away or hidden it. --- "It's the old story," he said. "Get the weapon, and you've
got the murderer."
Later, one of the detectives sat down beside her. Did she know, he asked, of anything in the house that could have been used as a
weapon? Would she look around to see if anything was missing.
The search went on. It began to get late -- it was nearly nine o'clock. The men searching the rooms were getting tired. "Jack," she
said, "Would you like a drink? You must be extremely tired."
"Well," he answered. "It's not allowed by police rules, but since you're a friend."
They stood around with drinks in their hands. The detectives were uncomfortable with her and they tried to say cheering things to
her. Jack Noonan walked into the kitchen, came out quickly, and said, "Look, Mrs. Maloney. Did you know that your oven is still
on, and the meat is still inside?"
"Oh," she said. "So it is! I'd better turn it off." She returned with tearful eyes. "Would you do me a favor? Here you all are, all good
friends of Patrick's, and you're helping to catch the man who killed him. You must be very hungry by now because it's long past
your supper time, and I know that Patrick would never forgive me if I let you stay in the house without offering you anything to
eat. Why don't you eat up the lamb in the oven?"
"I wouldn't dream of it," Noonan said.
"Please," she begged. "Personally, I couldn't eat a thing, but it'd be a favor to me if you ate it up. Then you can go on with your
work."
The detectives hesitated, but they were hungry, and in the end, they went into the kitchen and helped themselves to supper. The
woman stayed where she was and listened to them through the open door. She could hear them speaking among themselves, and
their voices were thick because their mouths were full of meat.
"Have some more, Charlie."
"No, we'd better not finish it."
"She wants us to finish it. She said we ought to eat it up."
"That's a big bar the murderer must have used to hit poor Patrick. The doctor says the back of his head was broken to pieces.
"That's why the weapon should be easy to find."
"Exactly what I say."
"Whoever did it, he can't carry a weapon that big around with him."
"Personally, I think the weapon is somewhere near the house."
"It's probably right under our noses. What do you think, Jack?"
And in the other room, Mary Maloney began to laugh.