Miranda is powerfully beautiful. When she stares at you, even though she is
tall and square, even though she dresses terribly,
you cannot help feeling a
soft point in your chest.
Yet no boys
dare
speak to her. She does have
friends though
and
those more common-looking girls do
find boyfriends. But not her.
She feels
quite lonely but tries
not to care and studies hard. She
loves thinking about uncommon things, maths questions or medieval
epochs. As time goes by, she finds it
harder
and harder to communicate, as she spends most of her time alone. Then
she starts drinking at parties and her life changes.
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Çınar is
the shyest guy on earth. He
blushes
when
the
camera
looks at him in
photobooths.
He says he dresses in black because he is colourblind but the truth
is he hopes he
will go unseen.
It
usually fails, because he is so stout and handsome. His
eyes are
a
very pure gold, yet
not
many people see
them
as he only looks at the ground. Then one days he meets Sevinç.
Sevinç has brown hair with shadows
in it and her skin is as sweet as dawn.
She is straightforward and joyful and she has wonderful green eyes.
Mostly, Sevinç is blind. Çınar
falls
in love instantly.
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Wolverine has definitely turned into a lonely beast. He never really trusted
anyone but the world's lunacy has now had him lock himself in. He
spends his days in a dressing gown, trying to read classics. Yet he
is mostly irked by novels: Austen sends poisonous darts in a jungle
of futile rules, Zola's tiresome castles always end up collapsing...
Essays are even worse, as they try to understand a meaningless world.
Now Wolverine longs for fresh air, but he restrains himself: humanity
can die in rivers of blood, he won't try to help anymore, thank you very much. He once was
a superhero but he has learnt that crowds' gratefulness is a one-day
flower, then you go back to feeling different and unwelcome. So he
plays video games and puts on weight. Then one day he gets a letter.
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Gonçalo has got that cold again. Every winter brings it back. So Gonçalo
barely gets out of bed and, when he does, wraps himself in many layers of
wool. Then he waits for the cold to disappear, for he cannot work :
Gonçalo is a Nose
for a French perfume company. He gets terribly bored, surfs aimlessly
on the Internet or sleeps all day for a week. Then one day the
chemist around the corner tries to talk him into buying yet another
new drug for his cold. Gonçalo hardly listens to the talkative girl
but takes the drug out of boredom. Yet, to his great surprise, the
cold is gone in two days. Gonçalo goes back to the chemist's to
thank her and, without thinking, asks her out for dinner. The next
night, he finds out she is not only a talkative brunette but a very
lively one too. When morning comes, he is terribly tired and in love, even though she smells a bit of clove.
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