Guardian of the Origins

"Well, you should have thought about that before throwing it at your king."

Iroko laughed a melodious laughter that caught Prime unprepared, she subconsciously looked at Iroko in a dazed manner.

"Is this the after life? Or is this another world? Finally I won't have to worry about things like money anymore, yay!"

Obviously, there is no finite point at which a piece of literature stops being a short story and becomes a novel -- but for the purposes of this paper, I'm going to establish some benchmarks. According to A Handbook to Literature, a short story runs from 500 to 15,000 words -- with a long short story being between 12,000 and 15,000 (480-1). The terms novella, novelette, nouvelle and short novel are virtually interchangeable. The Handbook suggests that a novelette is "longer than a short story and shorter than a novel" (360). It further describes a short novel as being between 15,000 and 50,000 words (479). This gap strikes me as too broad, so I prefer Gardner's finer definition, that a novella is between 30,000 and 50,000 words (179). And novels are beyond 50,000 words, according to a variety of sources, including the Handbook and E.M. Forster, who said in 1927, "Any fictitious prose work over 50,000 words will be [considered] a novel. . ." (6).

sky: dad wjats going on

Adam bangkit menatap Jade saat mendengar suara rintihan itu. "God, damn! Adam tanpa sadar mencengkram pergelangan tangan Jade yang terluka, saat begitu bernafsu. Seketika kabut gairah Adam sirna. "Fuck! Rutuk Adam. Bangkit menutupi tubuh Jade dengan selimut.

Tonie is really touched by her sister's thoughts but she can't bear to see her sister suffer. She has a bright future ahead of her. She's already exhausted from her studies as it is, how can she work, it could cause her health to deteriorate. She can't be distracted from her studies. Tonie won't let it happen. She loves and dotes on her sister a lot because she's such an obedient child. She doesn't cause them stress unlike children her age nowadays. She is more determined than ever to find a job quickly to support her family.

As Agatha came back she was out of breath while she was carrying a big dark blue blanket that looked like it can wrap around her twice. She stared at Zuko blushing again with a look on her face as if asking to be praised. So Zuko patted her head.

"Yeah, I'll forgive you." I don't imagine she will ever cheat on me. She's not the type.

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'Not again, mortals…' Xue Yao growled on the inside, 'What's with everyone picking me up like that? I'm an immortal! My precious body is too good for you to touch so carelessly.'

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