Vocabulary: Smash

Three Kisses

Oct 29, 2024

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Genre: Children’s

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Bathtub, Courage, Dragon, Grief, Ruby, Seagull, Servant, Slave, Smash, Witch

Word Count: 2405

Original Author: Gordon Urquhart

Leah’s mother dies, and her brother leaves home, and Leah is so sad that she cannot speak. Her father plants a rose garden on her balcony, and every day she gives a white rose to a seagull and kisses it three times, sending it to her brother. But dark magic is also travelling across the sea, and soon Leah will find that every rose is not so sweet…
The Labyrinth

Mar 14, 2023

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Genre: Philosophical

Setting: Modern

New Vocabulary: Ashes, Chest, Fork (road), Hourglass, Ignore, Image, Labyrinth, Melt, Poison, Smash, Tight, Urn

Word Count: 1532

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

A woman keeps ending up in bad relationships. A businessman works so hard he has heart problems. A young man killed his friend by drunk driving and now he can’t stop drinking. All three of them are lost. All three of them go to drive. They go to the place where all roads lead: the labyrinth.
Dear Heart Chapter 4

Feb 9, 2021

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Genre: Romance

Setting: Modern

New Vocabulary: Beat up, Dump (relationships), Dwell on, Eyebrow, Idiot, Needle, Pretend, Reflection, Smash, Squish, Steering wheel, Tear through/apart/off, Threaten, Waistcoat

Word Count: 3237

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

Our classes are over. Clearly, you’re doing fine without me, and I’ll just break your ‘nice pen’ if you try to help me. We’re colleagues, anyway. Let’s keep it that way. The handwriting was completely different, back to being a drunken spider, and it only got messier as my tears fell on the page.

Vocabulary: Smash

Three Kisses

The Labyrinth

Dear Heart Chapter 4