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History of Chinese-Canadians explores impact of upheaval and prejudice
In last two decades of the 19th century, thousands of Chinese moved out of coastal B.C. They moved onto the Prairies and beyond it to Toronto, Ottawa or Montreal.
Most of them were males who, because of the Chinese Immigration Act, were required to pay a head tax ranging from $50 in 1885 to $500 by 1903.
It took years to pay back funds borrowed to remit head tax, and to save more to bring over the family they'd left behind. Tragically, after 1923 the act was revised and though Chinese no longer had to pay head tax, almost all were now excluded from Canada.
The act's repeal in 1947 ended this exclusion era. Families were reunited and bonds were joyfully renewed.
In her 1994 non-fiction bestseller, The Concubine's Children, Denise Chong, a third-generation Chinese-Canadian, revealed how her grandparents had lived between China and Canada.
In her new non-fiction book, Lives of the Family, Chong once again explores the impact of historical upheaval on ordinary people, offering a series of alternating vignettes about transpacific families in the exclusion era.
These stories paint a picture of circumstances of class, race and war that animated more than a dozen Chinese-Canadian pioneer lives. These lives included broken family ties, ecstatic reunions, extraordinary success and sometimes a lifetime of estrangement.
Through her twisting narrative, we follow odysseys from southern China to British Columbia and through the Prairies to Ottawa, where Chong lives, and the surrounding area.
Harry Johnston (a.k.a. Harry Fong) left a wife and son in China and came to Perth, Ont., in 1899 to work in a laundry shop. Thirteen years later his wife died, prompting his return to China to mourn, and marry Mabel. Harry, Mabel and their daughter had returned to Perth by 1921. Together, they ran Harry's Café and became millionaires.
Chong shines a light on many significant families, including Hums, Yees and Poys. The Poys were among the few Chinese allowed into Canada during the exclusion era. Blessed by good fate, merchant status and William's one-quarter Irish heritage, they escaped wartime China and had remarkable achievements.
Adrienne Poy (Clarkson) became Canada's first Chinese-Canadian governor general. Neville Poy's wife, Vivienne, became the first Chinese-Canadian senator.
Manitobans will find the scattered threads intersecting with Harry Yee equally fascinating, though sometimes hard to follow. Harry ran Harry's Café in Altona for nearly four decades and was part owner of a Winnipeg gambling den during the 1920s.
Yee had a vast web of connections leading back to China, where he supported family. Sometimes Yee's remittances hadn't been enough, as we see in Chong's description of the adopting out and presumably the sale of Harry's granddaughter: "Lai-Sim Yee ... was as much an outsider because she had 'gone out'; a girl who has left her birth family, usually in marriage but in her case because she was adopted out." Yee retired in 1963, moved to Ottawa and died in 1976.
Through various sagas, Chong shows Chinese whose lives straddled continents and who didn't always work in cafés, laundries or groceries. They were university and college students. They were community members, hunters and hockey players. They went to nightclubs and churches; they played golf.
They didn't always live in Chinatowns but they usually lived on the margins of better districts.
Chong constructs a moving, well-researched and sometimes confusing panoramic view, with windows that open periodically in different places and times, allowing the reader a glimpse of transpacific family life.
Alison Marshall is a full professor at Brandon University and author of The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba, and the forthcoming Historicizing Affect: Community-Building and the Making of Chinese Prairie Canada (UBC Press).
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition October 12, 2013 A1
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Hassan campaigned on promises to "restore" funding legislators cut when they passed the last state budget. She never said where she would get the money to do that. Now she admits that the restoration will take years - because the money simply is not there.
The last budget reduced state spending by 10.25 percent. It was only the second time since World War II that a state budget came out smaller than the previous one. Hassan called the cuts reckless and irresponsible. So why isn't she proposing an immediate increase in state spending back to the previous budget level?
The hard reality is that the revenues just are not there. Restoring the 10-cent tobacco tax cut is not going to do the trick. And Hassan seems reluctant to propose fully restoring all of the tax cuts she called "reckless" before the election, probably because she knows that doing so would hurt the recovery.
Just three weeks after the election, reality is setting in. It is easier to campaign against spending cuts than it is to find money to pay for all of the things people would like the government to do. Hassan says we face tough choices in the next budget. We did in the last budget, too. She got elected by implying that those hard choices were not necessary. But they were. Voters who hoped to see all of their favored programs and services fully funded simply by removing the speaker's gavel from Bill O'Brien's hands are, it seems, in for some disappointment.
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Keepsake Envelope Folders
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Over the centuries, envelopes have contained many secrets and declarations of true love, so it's appropriate to use a group of them to store dear old letters and treasured notes -- or to fill them with trinkets for your valentine. Just stick several envelopes together, using their own adhesive; then insert your keepsakes, and tie the bundle with the most beautiful ribbon you can find.
First, fold the flaps back on all but one of the envelopes you want to join. With the unfolded flap on the bottom, stack the envelopes, open side up. Moisten folded flaps; affix each to the envelope behind it. Punch a hole through the bottom center of all the envelopes; insert keepsakes, and fold last flap over. Thread a ribbon through the hole, and tie.
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mariekoran 28 Jan, 2010
Thank you "crafttestdummies" for sharing your use for these, I might do that too !Reply
angel9 22 Jan, 2010
I used this same idea at Christmas for each grandchild. I put all the receipts in there slot just in case an exchange was needed. Worked like a charm!Reply
rivergirl17 18 Jan, 2009
I cannot believe I have found this craft on Martha's website. As an entrepreneurial child I created a catalog of crafts that I could make and would sell to my fellow classmates. This was one of my products!Reply
ldevalkenaere 29 Mar, 2008
Also a useful idea for kid's project for bookmaking! Works for the nieces and nephews!Reply
CraftTestDummies 14 Feb, 2008
I've made these, and actually use them to organize coupons. (I have the cutest organizer in the store!) This is also useful in your craft room organizing die-cuts, paper punch-outs, and other flat embellishments.Reply


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This makes me happy! I'm a die-hard Red Sox fan, but even I know, it's just about time to throw the hands up on 2014. Everything that went right with the World Series Championship season last year has gone wrong this season. One of the biggest mistakes was signing catcher A.J. Pierzynski. He just didn't work out...and now he's gone.
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In 1991 the leaders of the institutions of higher education in Szeged signed an agreement to merge these institutions into a unified, sizable center of higher education, to be called the University of Szeged. From 2000 the University of Szeged has been officially working, integrating 11 schools or faculties and teaching about 30,000 students.
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Brussels, 31 October 2014
What is Triton?
Triton is a Frontex coordinated joint operation, requested by the Italian authorities that will start its activity as from 1 November 2014 in the Central Mediterranean to support Italy.
How have the details of the operation been defined?
The way she tell its, Regina Catrambone is just a regular Italian Catholic.
"I go to church, I pray, but I'm not a religious freak," says the joint founder of MOAS, a unique humanitarian venture that owes its existence to a combination of Pope Francis's inspirational turn of phrase and a chance encounter with a winter coat separated from its owner in tragic circumstances.
MOAS stands for Migrant Offshore Aid Station. Essentially, it is a boat, albeit a pretty sophsticated one.
Italy - Despite increasingly dangerous sea conditions, irregular migrants are continuing to cross the Mediterranean, bringing the total number of arrivals in Italy this year to 154,075, according to figures newly released by the country's Ministry of the Interior.
The number of migrants arriving in Italy by sea in the month of October was 15,279, a slight decrease from the 26,107 who arrived in September. The overall total of arrivals has now reached just under four times the number of arrivals recorded during the same period last year (38,882).
Rome, Italy | AFP | Friday 10/31/2014 - 14:10 GMT
Italy on Friday confirmed the end of its search and rescue operation "Mare Nostrum", which has saved the lives of tens of thousands of boat migrants in the Mediterranean.
"From tomorrow a new operation called 'Triton' begins," deputy prime minister and interior minister Angelino Alfano told journalists at a press conference, referring to a much more limited mission led by the EU border agency Frontex.
IOM has paid tribute – on the occasion of the launch of the European Union (EU) Operation Triton in the Mediterranean – to the heroic work of Italy's maritime forces in rescuing at sea thousands of migrants seeking safety in Europe.
Under Italy's "Mare Nostrum" operation, some 150,000 so-called "irregular" migrants, many of them from the most troubled nations in Africa and the Middle East, have arrived safely over the past 10 months in Europe, where today many are pursuing claims for asylum.
GENEVA (30 October 2014) – Allowing people to die at Europe's borders just because of their administrative status is a complete disregard for the value of human life, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau, said today urging the British authorities to reconsider its decision not support search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean.
By CHRISTABEL LIGAMI
More than 3,000 minors may have fallen victim to forced labour and sexual exploitation after vanishing from homes and shelters
Thousands of migrant children are disappearing after arriving in mainland Europe, triggering concerns that they are falling prey to a new and thriving market for child trafficking and forced labour.
Italy's proposal to end its Mare Nostrum search and rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea would put the lives of thousands of migrants and refugees attempting to reach Europe at risk, Amnesty International said today.
Italy's Minister of Interior Angelino Alfano has proposed that Mare Nostrum, which was launched a year ago today and has saved tens of thousands of lives at sea, should end when Frontex's new border operation Triton starts on 1 November.
To tackle the serious humanitarian crisis caused by the ISIS siege of the Syrian town of Kobane, Italian Cooperation has earmarked 300,000 euros for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies to help the Kurds fleeing towards the Turkish-Syrian border. "The situation in Kobane is dramatic and the population needs urgent protection", said Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini. "Italy, along with the international community, is engaged in the effort to defeat ISIS and help thousands of people living in a dramatic situation.
This is a summary of what was said by the UNHCR spokesperson at today's Palais des Nations press briefing in Geneva. Further information can be found on the UNHCR websites, www.unhcr.org and www.unhcr.fr, which should also be checked for regular media updates on non-briefing days.
Evacuation of over 250 migrants of different nationalities accomplished via Tunisia, Egypt or directly out of Tripoli
Over 900 emergency relief kits distributed among people in need within Tripoli city area, departing migrants and those in detention centres
Almost 1,036 migrants from different countries tracked and scheduled to receive repatriation support through the IOM network
2 capacity building trainings for humanitarian and psychosocial workers carried out in Zarzis, Tunisia
Belgrade, 10 Oct 2014 – The Serbian government's Office for assistance and rehabilitation of the flooded areas stated today that the Italian government, at the proposal of the Office, approved the financing of a project worth €800,000 for the clean-up of flood damages caused to the water management infrastructure.
Italy - Some 8,736 irregular Syrian migrants have arrived in Italy by sea in recent weeks, bringing the total number of Syrian arrivals this year through the end of September to 32,681 – the largest number from any country – overtaking 32,537 from Eritrea.
"In September, there were more Syrians than Eritreans," said IOM Rome spokesperson Flavio Di Giacomo. "Both groups are fleeing from war and persecution. Together they represent almost half of the total number of migrants and asylum seekers arriving in Italy by sea this year."
Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting in Luxembourg
(Brussels, October 9, 2014) – European Union member states' justice and home affairs ministers meeting in Luxembourg should take forward a comprehensive and collective EU response to search and rescue needs in the central Mediterranean to urgently save lives, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today.
On 3 October, the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, took part in the launch of the 2014 edition of the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP) at the Italian Parliament in Rome, in the presence of H.E. Mr. Gian Luca Galletti, Italian Minister of the Environment and Protection of the Land and Sea, a range of Parliamentarians as well as members of academia and the diplomatic corps in Italy.
One year after 368 migrants, mainly Eritreans, lost their lives in the Mediterranean trying to reach Italy, survivors of the tragedy and relatives of the victims will return to the island of Lampedusa today for the first time to commemorate the event.
IOM Director General Ambassador William Lacy Swing, who met last year with the survivors of the shipwreck and heard their stories, will take part in the commemoration.
Un año después del trágico naufragio frente a la isla italiana de Lampedusa, guerras como las de Siria, las crisis prolongadas que sufren distintos países en conflicto y el caos que impera en Libia, continúan empujando a un número sin precedentes de refugiados hacia Europa.
Los equipos médicos de Médicos Sin Fronteras (MSF) han constatado en Sicilia que quienes llegan lo hacen en una situación cada vez más vulnerable, por lo que insta a la Unión Europea (UE) a que mantenga activas sus operaciones de búsqueda y rescate en el Mediterráneo.


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Chapter 7 (Madhouse Funhouse) FunTime Amusement ParkChapter 7 (Madhouse Funhouse) by Geli-K
June 12, 2014
Lynette Silas
I must say, I am rather glad that I have kept my strength up; otherwise I would not be able to drag around these unconscious people and other things.
The Funhouse is starting to take the shape I want it to. I have disfigured the front entrance in a way that is delightfully horrifying. I loathe that ugly clown… it was enjoyable to dig a knife into it and splash red paint across the cardboard smile.
Aside from that, I have spent a very happy hour or so playing with my victims. They are beaten, bruised and cut more deeply by my sharp words than by the knives and mallets and ropes and chains I have used on them. Allie refuses to scream or cry, though. She keeps staring at me with dark eyes and a twisted mouth. Her twin brother was
Chapter 6 (Madhouse Funhouse) Main StreetChapter 6 (Madhouse Funhouse) by Geli-K
June 12, 2014
Charlotte Kiss
Ugh. I've just spent a good chunk of time at the library—exams coming up, you know? I'm not looking forward to them. Exams are awful.
I'm so tired. I want to go home. I want to go home, eat pizza, watch TV and sink into a hot bubble-bath all at once. That would be the best end to today.
But one of the wheels on my skates is coming loose, so I have to get it fixed. I wish I could do it later, but I can't. I have roller derby practice tomorrow. When I got to the skate shop, I switched out my blades for yellow converse runners that have enough room for me to wiggle my toes in.
"What name should I put it under?" asks the clerk.
"Kiss. Charlie Kis
Chapter 5 (Madhouse Funhouse) FunTime Amusement ParkChapter 5 (Madhouse Funhouse) by Geli-K
June 12, 2014
Lynette Silas
God, this is such a tedious job. Just watching all of those little snot-nosed brats parading in and out of the Funhouse with idiotic grins plastered on their stupid faces… I could vomit. It's sickening, it's boring, and above all I have to wear this stupid red jacket! I didn't think there was anything worse than the Institution jumpsuit, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I lean against the wall of the Funhouse while Allie lets people into the Funhouse. Our job is to make sure that only X amount of children are in the Funhouse for Y amount of time. Dull work. I am glad I have my book with me.
As I skim "The Psychopath Test", I notice similarities between the text and what Charlie told m
Lynette Silas
Charlie's expression was absolutely priceless as she finally puts the pieces together. This is what I live for. The shock in their eyes as they realize that I was not their friend, I never had been. The horror in their expressions as I smile at them and draw my knife.
The emotions in Charlie's eyes faded quickly. Now, they are dead. Blank.
Her gaze flicks over to Lizzie. It is the only evidence that the gears are still turning in her head. I honestly do not see why she is so concerned about that other girl. She is annoying and wears tacky, chipped nail polish.
"Why have you singled me out?" she asks. I open my mouth and she cuts me off with, "I know you say I'm "interesting", but big deal. A turtle can be interesting. Why are you doing this?"
"I promised to be straightforward with you, and I will be." I sigh slightly. "You say I singled you out. I suppose I did. But think about it… would you rather have been cracked across the back of the head with a wooden board, tied up and cut with knives?"
Charlie frowns and bites her lip. Her shoulders are shaking.
"I like you because you refuse to be intimidated. You are strong. You are stubborn. You are brave. You are very clever." I reach for her and tuck a loose hair behind her ear.
She stares at my hand like it is a tarantula, but does not move away.
I allow my hand to linger for a moment. "Those are redeeming qualities in anyone, ones that you have already demonstrated to me, tonight." I draw my hand back. "We seem to be polar opposites in most areas, but we are similar."
"Enlighten me." Her voice is terse and her eyes are not focussed on me. She is still looking at Lizzie. She edges away from me so I will not touch her again.
"Very well. You follow your emotions but you let logic rule them. I use logic primarily, yet sometimes my emotions get the better of me. You are kind, I am callous. You do not appear to care too deeply for things such as appearance, while I am very aware of my… qualities."
"We're opposites."
"Quite." The corner of my mouth twitches. "On the other hand, we are both clever, strong, and we both find the inner workings and imperfections of the human mind to be fascinating…"
"At least I don't have to live it," she snaps, her voice cracking. "Don't forget, you're the crazy person, here."
"You came to meet me even though it is extremely likely that I will kill you." I tap my nails on the skull. It is cool under my fingertips. "If that is not considered mad, I believe I will need to rework my definition."
"I value the chance to save the lives of others, even though I'm risking my own."
I wave my hand dismissively. "Well, one of them is already gone, so it does not matter for him, anyway."
She pales. Her voice breaks, again. "Who…?"
I wave her off. "You will figure it out, later. It is unimportant."
Outrage. Her eyes fill with fire. Her hands grip the table. "Not important?!"
I shrug. "Not to me, anyway. He's just another name to add to my list."
"Sixteen, now, I suppose." She frowns at her lap.
I click my tongue and shake my head slowly. "Wrong. That makes an even forty."
"Forty. That list they had in the newspaper is inaccurate. I ought to call the editors to rectify this error."
Charlie stares at me hard. Her expression burns with hatred and steadfast resolute. "That seems awfully cocky of you."
"That may be." I tapped my fingers on the skull and crossed my legs. Charlie's shoulders are rigid. She stares at me, not willing to look away, but I can see that she finds me repulsive. Terrifying.
I check the time on my phone. "You are growing boring very fast, Charlie. Keep in mind that the longer you entertain me, the longer you and the others have to live."
Her eyes grow wide. "Okay. What do you want me to do?"
"You are clever," I say. "Think of something."
Her hands plunge into her backpack, searching frantically through a mess of papers and books for something to inspire her. The red roller skates sit close to the top with their laces tied together.
"Care to explain about the rollerblades?" I rest my elbow on the table and prop my chin up with my fingers.
They clack together when she lifts them by the laces. "I'm a roller derby champ. I'm the jammer."
"The more I go around the track, the more points I score." She flicks a wheel. "Our team is doing pretty well, at the moment."
"Why do you like it?"
"I like the speed and I don't mind getting roughed up a bit. I had brothers growing up, so I was always covered in bruises." I notice that her sentences spill out quickly, as though she is trying to make a barrier of words between herself and me. "We would wrestle and fight all the time."
"Brothers?" I ask. "How many?"
"Three." She bites her lip and shifts the conversation away from herself. "Did you have any family growing up?"
"Not particularly. I was an only child and I had neglectful parents who allowed me to come and go as I pleased."
"I see." She pauses, her eyes watching the spinning wheels on her blades as she thinks. "I'm curious… What's your greatest accomplishment? I consider mine to be a tie between winning the derby championship last year and getting into my first choice University."
"This Funhouse, by far, is mine," I tell her. "It is magnificent, is it not? I take great pride in this… work of art."
Although she flinches when I refer to it as "art", she feigns an approving nod. "Yeah. It's… nice." Her eyes dart back down to Lizzie, who is shifting just a tiny bit. "What inspired you?"
"As silly as it sounds, I was inspired by a song."
"That one you were playing…?"
"Something similar. I can show you later. It is rather catchy."
"Well, inspiration comes from all places. I wanted to learn about the human mind after reading "Sherlock Holmes" when I was a kid." She tapped her chin. "Did you set out for a life of crime?"
"I would not go so far as to call it a lifestyle," I say. "But I did set out for it, I suppose. I made my first kill when I was sixteen years old. His name was Alex. I seduced him, murdered him in the woods, and threw his dismembered body into the stream. His murder remains unsolved."
Charlie lets her horrified expression smooth into something calmer. "I see. How did you feel? What's it like to take a life?"
I smile a little. "Fun. Energizing. Powerful. It is easy to take the lives of those who are weaker and stupider than oneself, but it is far more fun to aim high and dream big. I highly recommend taking the life of another at least once. I am sure you would enjoy it."
Charlie spins the wheels on her roller-skates. "I would never do such a thing." She looked over to Lizzie. "I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I hurt someone like that."
I shrug. "You never know until you try. You are like me, remember? You would probably enjoy it on some level."
She furrows her brow and gnashes her teeth. "I'm not like you."
"You would be surprised."
Charlie has captured my interest in a way that has not been done for three long years. Clever, brave, yet naïve. Amusing to play with. She is not hard on the eyes, either, even when she is bruised and frightened.
She is getting fidgety. Her eyes endlessly scan the room, unable to linger or focus on anything for more than a second. Her fingers twist together and untwist, twist and untwist. Her feet tap the floor over and over again.
I heave a loud sigh to puncture the lingering silence. "Bored, again."
Charlie clenches her fists. "You get bored easily."
"I suppose." I got to my feet and picked up the apron that was slung over the back of my chair. I put it on, tying the cord around my waist. "I better entertain myself, since you appear to be too frightened to do so."
"No!" she says, her eyes lingering on the blood that is splattered on my apron. "S-sit down. I'll entertain you."
I raise an eyebrow and look over my shoulder at her. "Well? Go on. I'm waiting."
Her eyes scan the ceiling as though looking for an answer. Finding none, she closed her eyes. "… How about a game?"
A game? Actually, that is not a bad idea. I smirk and take my seat, again.
Her expression twists when she sees it. "I don't like that look."
"You do have good ideas, sometimes, Charlie. Let us play a game." I caress the top of the ceramic skull. "Have you played Predator?"
"No. I don't like the sounds of it."
"It is simple. A more descriptive name for it is hide-and-seek-tag."
She frowns. "What's your point?"
"Simple. We will put a twist on it." I grin. "I will give you a five minute head start. Five minutes. No more, no less. Your job is to go and try to free all of the people I have here. My job is to try to catch you."
Charlie sets her jaw. "What happens if you catch me?"
"Put it this way…" I pick up the skull and hurl it across the room with all my might. It shatters into a million pieces with an explosive crack. I look over to Charlie and hold out my empty hands. "Get the picture?"
She nods. Her expression remains unchanged. "Got it. One question…?"
"Do I get a hint?"
I pace across the room. "A five minute head start and a hint? It seems you are trying to stack the deck, my friend."
She juts out her jaw. "No. I'm just trying to even the odds. And we're not friends."
"No. No hints." I reach into my jacket and pull out the knife. Lizzie is still unconscious at my feet. Her eyes move under her lids as she dreams, probably about me. "Just for asking, I am going to get rid of the easiest one, first. Just to keep things interesting." I pull on a pair of blue rubber gloves. They snap on my wrists. I take my knife from the apron pocket.
"Wait, what? NO!" Charlie jumps to her feet.
Before she can take a single step, I kneel and dig my knife into Lizzie's throat, slicing the jugular and carotid in one smooth stroke. I remove the knife. Crimson spills over her throat and fake blonde hair. Her eyes flutter briefly and she gurgles before her breath stops forever.
Forty one.
I get back to my feet. Charlie's eyes are huge. Her mouth is agape. Her foot is frozen above the ground in mid-step.
"Consider that incentive," I tell her. I stoop to wipe the knife on Lizzie's red jacket before tucking it away into my apron. "The same fate will fall for the others if you fail…"
I pause. Charlie is shaking. She looks lost.
"If I catch you, of course, I think I will most likely keep you around a bit as a sort of… pet." I say the word with vigor and let it linger on my tongue for an extra moment. "We could do great things if you turn to my side, Charlie."
"I will never kill anyone!" she snarls. Her gaze is still fixed on Lizzie. She looks green. Oh dear, I hope she does not faint.
I peel off my gloves and toss them aside carelessly. "You just might change your mind."
Charlie narrows her eyes at me and straightens. She squares up her shoulders.
"My hint. Now." Charlie's voice is vibrating with anger. I can almost taste her rage boiling just under the surface, barely controlled.
"If I must." I wander back over to the chair and take a seat. My feet go up on the table. "Let me see… two floors… there are of them seven left… There are three on this floor, four on the bottom."
"That's not a proper hint." She crosses her arms. "Give me a hint about where to start."
"Alright, if you insist. You are being rather pushy."
She opens and closes her fists. Words seem to fail her.
I tap my chin. Which direction should I send her in? "Just look around. You should be able to find them. Are you fond of snakes?"
"Good." I fold my hands together. "There, now. I have given you plenty. Off you trot." I pick up my new phone and set a timer. "Five minutes, then I come to play."
She does not move. I am not certain she is able to.
I put my hands over my eyes and sigh dramatically. "One… two… three…"
Charlie dashes across the room, grabs her bat, and is off like a rocket. I hear her footsteps, fast and frantic as she tries to find her friends. Now it is just me, the shattered skull, and the shell that once was Lizzie.
Do I feel sorry for any of them?
Of course not.
I do feel a bit bad about tossing that poor book around, though. I walk across the room, sidestepping blood and broken shards of ceramic skull, and pick up the yellow book. I take my seat and thumb through the pages I have already been over.
The time ticks away slowly. There are no sounds in the building, except for the turning of my pages and the thumping footsteps as Charlie races down the halls. I can hear her calling the names of her coworkers. Of course, they are all gagged, but I do not worry. She will find one or two at least.
Time is up. I walk back over to the wall where the grey panel is. I push a button and hook the microphone up. I turn a few knobs. I pause for a moment as I try to decide what I ought to say.
I smirk. Obvious. After all, is this not hide-and-seek?
I raise the microphone to my mouth. My voice booms through the Funhouse. It rumbles and rolls and echoes off of the many, many mirrors.
"Ready or not, here I come!"
Chapter 12 (Madhouse Funhouse) FunTime Amusement Park
June 12, 2014
Charlotte Kiss
As soon as I step inside the Funhouse, I immediately find myself facing rows upon rows of bent mirrors. In some I look pencil thin, in others I look twice my normal width and half my normal height, and in still others I look twisted and warped.
I push the images far from my mind and focus on the routes in the maze. There are three different directions I could go: forward, left, or right. Coloured light strips around the edges of the mirrors and doorways are the only lighting in this gloomy place, casting the reflections of my face in shadows of sickening hues. Some of the lights fizz and flicker, but that is hardly Correggio's doing. The lights have always been faulty.
I choose to go straight. My footsteps echoed quietly aroun
I'm fundraising for a trip to study abroad in JAPAN for SIX MONTHS! I'll be selling my dad's t-shirts, but that's TBA. For now, I've started up a donation pool!
I've been shortlisted for my top choice program! Wish me luck!
Hey, my name is Geli. I'm a teenager. I really like to draw cartoons and write. I can pretend that I know how to play the piano. That's about it.
When I grow up, I want to be a cartoonist/ writer more then anything, but hey, things change, and anything can happen!
I'm open for collabs and trades, FYI, but no requests, sorry.


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Mini Bar Attendant - Part-Time - Omni Severin Hotel
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