| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Baby Mine by Margaret Mayo: "How did YOU get here?" she asked with an air of reproach.
"The fire-escape," panted Jimmy and he nodded mysteriously toward
the inner rooms of the apartment.
"Fire-escape?" echoed Zoie. There was only one and that led
through the bathroom window.
Jimmy explained no further. He was now peeping cautiously out of
the window toward the pavement below.
"Where's the mother?" demanded Zoie.
Jimmy jerked his thumb in the direction of the street. Zoie
gazed at him with grave apprehension.
"Jimmy!" she exclaimed. "You haven't killed her?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was enough; the outlaw's foot struck the prostrate
corpse; he staggered, and for one brief instant his sword
arm rose, ever so little, as he strove to retain his equili-
brium; but that little was enough, it was what the
gray old snake had expected, and he was ready. Like
lightning his sword shot through the opening, and, for
the first time in his life of continual combat and death,
Norman of Torn felt cold steel tear his flesh. But ere
he fell his sword responded to the last fierce command
of that iron will, and as his body sank limply to the
floor, rolling with outstretched arms, upon its back,
The Outlaw of Torn |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Tom Grogan by F. Hopkinson Smith: though the wind might change.
Some men would not have worried over these possibilities. Babcock
did. He was that kind of man.
When the boat touched the shore, he sprang over the chains, and
hurried through the ferry-slip.
"Keep an eye out, sir," the bridge-tender called after him,--he
had been directing him to Grogan's house,--"perhaps Tom may be on
the road."
Then it suddenly occurred to Babcock that, so far as he could
remember, he had never seen Mr. Thomas Grogan, his stevedore. He
knew Grogan's name, of course, and would have recognized his
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