Stories tagged “riots”
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Shutting Down the Gateway
From The New York Times, November 2, 2009: ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Gateway to the West is suffering the terrible and tragic phenomenon of massive riots today as tensions have been stretched beyond their breaking points. Violence first erupted at the...
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Religion
He ran as fast as he could, but his legs and lungs begged him stopped. He gasped for breath and the fat body fell on the ground, the knees and palms screaming with pain. His clothes were torn, blood and sweat oozing from almost every part of his body. ...
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England's Dreaming
On the fourth- or was it fifth?- day of the riots that the news was carefully not calling a revolution, she had to leave the flat for food. She cautiously left the apartment building, glancing furtively down each alley and side-street as she walked to ...
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England, Dream on!
…Somebody else had done that before she got there. “How long’s this going to go on for?” , she wondered. Minding her own business, she munched on the cheese and bread – it was stale. No surprise there, then. Then she lay d...
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England, dreamed
She started to cough and wheeze as if she’s smoked far too many cigarettes. Dropping the device onto the floor she realised her brightly coloured shoes were now as dismal as the clouds that took safe refuge in the sky. She coughed once more, this...
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England Drifts Off
Amy had had enough. Life’d thrown her more than her fair share of troubles in the last few weeks. First her dog, Bonzo had died. Cheesy name of course, but she’d known a Bonzo years ago as a child, an old, fat Golden Retriever. About a 150 ...
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England, Awake!
I’d better give Amy the fix or it’ll be too late, Brian, the disfigured one, thought as he withdrew a metallic cube from within the folds of his tunic. Placing it on the now crumbling table, he switched it on. The seemingly unexciting machi...