Stories tagged harvard-sentences

The small pup gnawed a hole in the sock

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It’s downsizing, not a reflection of his work, the boss had said before sending him to wipe clean his cube. Though someone had wiped clean his computer already, and he wondered what had happened to the picture of his kids that used to fill the screen.

The boy was there when the sun rose

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He’d been looking at the eyelash moon when thought the rustle in the leaf bed was a raccoon or even a skunk. When he turned to look the man jumped out from the trees grabbed him, pinching the skin on the boy’s back.

Rice is often served in round bowls

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It was a normal part of the show, when after dishing out the rice in twelve equal portions, in twelve round bowls, he lined up a few onion pieces to fling at the diners’ mouths. The gimmick was simple, wholesome fun, meant to help people to drop their gua

Help the woman get back to her feet

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A cement mattress can’t console a hungry woman, one huddling under a tattered blanket in thin socks and filth. A street corner is a cold place to kneel.

The hogs were fed chopped corn and garbage

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I started out dropping things like bubble gum into the trough ...