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Vocabulary: Trapped

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, Cut Off Your Hair

Jul 9, 2024

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Genre: Romance

Setting: Fairytale

New Vocabulary: Chew, Get caught on, Loom, Nail, Pharmacist, Scalp, Starve, Suit of armour, Sword, Trapped, Treat someone like

Word Count: 3658

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

An old couple wish for a son and instead have a daughter with long, magical hair. They don’t see the value in it, and sell her off to an old man who keeps her in a tower. Every day, he massages the oil from her hair and sells it. But the girl gets tired of this life, and makes a plan to escape…
Stalking is For Girls, Too

Nov 17, 2020

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Genre: Comedy

Setting: Modern

New Vocabulary: Fate, Get down on one knee, Hold your breath, Impatient, Lean, Make something up, Might as well, Sneak, Stalk, Trapped, Twist, Vent (complain)

Word Count: 730

Original Author: Ariel Goodbody

CLANG! The gate to the car park closed behind Bella. She was trapped. Uh-oh. She had gone past the apartment building on her day off work. She had had one date with the man, but she was impatient. She just wanted to look at him through the window, because she couldn’t stop thinking about him. But his curtains had been closed, so she decided to sneak into the car park so she could do… something?…