'Barr': A Short Story

Improved Essays
''Barr-'' Started Joe, softly, all anger dissipated now. What are you supposed to say when you learn your son tried to take his own life?
Everyone in the room felt the same, what do you say in this situation? Was Barry still feeling urges to hurt himself, even if he was out? Especially adding up now on his conscious everything he did as The Ghost.
''You don't understand how it was like in there.'' Added Barry, sensing the tension in the room. He needed them to understand, even if deep down, he knew they couldn’t. Not really. Nobody could truly understand how he was feeling, nobody except for Matthew. ''Being in that place for so long and having your life energy being sucked out of you again, and again...and again, it does things to your

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    As a kid, Roy Burgess, always hung with the wrong crowd of people which got him in trouble. Roy and his so called friends would steal cars and stuff of that nature. One day Roy was at the lake with Kevin which was one of his friends and shot him in the head, at least that is what the eyewitness said. Roy was a kid who did not make good decisions. He was lost without any direction.…

    • 221 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1.08: A Short Story

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages

    As the princess gestured to the right to show the man which door to choose, she was thinking about the lady that was in the door and about the tiger that was in the other. The princess didn’t like the lady in the door. she didn’t really want the man to go spend the rest of his life with her. So she did what she had to do. The door she told the man to choose was the one with the tiger.…

    • 356 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ishmael Beah and his friends they hadn’t heard any news about their families and didn’t know is their alive or die except wait and hope that they were well. In the next day many people of the town’s population was in hiding for a week. Later on, the rebels sent messengers but they didn’t come on the day they said they would, and as a result, people started again moving back into the town. Another ten days of hiding, and still the rebels hadn’t arrived. There was nothing to do but deduce that they weren’t coming.…

    • 249 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Why would he let so many suffer? This stressed the faith…

    • 168 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Summary- Zora Neale Hurston’s Barracoon is a truly unique and important story, hidden from public view for more than 70 years, and seeing the light of day only now. Barracoon tells the story of Kossula (Cudjo Lewis), a passenger on the last slave ship to sail to these shores, The Clotilde. The book tells his story, from birth to the moment of his interview, but mainly focuses on the parts of his life as a free man. Kossula was born in modern-day Benin, from the Yoruba tribe. His early life in Africa was characterized by stories about family, as well as stories about growing up.…

    • 998 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “What do you mean I’m not making a good case,” Kevin whined. Kevin was getting very upset when he couldn’t get his point across to his father. “Okay, listen,” there was a short moment of silence as Kevin listened to what his father had to say. “If you can somehow prove to me that Cromwell needs training, I will let you do it,” Howie offered.…

    • 440 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Gunshots erupt, screams are heard, the lives of innocent men are lost on both sides. On the battlefront lies a soldier who is fighting for his life. This soldier did not have a choice, and could not argue the decision. This soldier is scared, disheartened, and is only a boy. Ishmael Beah was an everyday child in the city of Sierra Leone.…

    • 222 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I think the majority of people who read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, can relate to a lot of themes and cultures throughout the book, but Hal’s tendencies and idiosyncrasies are especially relatable to a specific group of people. Hal represents a culture of people who are obsessive thinkers and indescribably complex. 
 Even though he is a tennis prodigy and really intelligent, he came across a problem from an unknown source that made him unable to communicate with others. On page 12, even though he was unable to express himself, he wanted the college administrators he was talking to to know that he is human and not only a machine, and that he feels and believes and has opinions.…

    • 572 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Beah's story tells us a lot about violence and how it affected his life. The thing that I believe made this worse for him is that it started when he was a kid and caused lots of issue's in his life. When Beah is talking about how when he was really young the rebels came into his village and attacked them and killed people it changed his life. When they attacked ad he was as young as he was it sticks with you and will never go away especially when it is your family that might have been killed and you know that you will never see them again. In chapter 12 when he joined the army I believe that it just made the violence n his life thrive to a point were it would be hard to change and that it caused him to become a completely different person.…

    • 258 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    8 Hands Man Short Story

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages

    8 hands man There was a man called Brian lives with his wife Jolian. They were unusual family the problem that happens to the man it must happen to his wife. They were not a rich family or poor family they were in the middle. They live in a small house in a city the man works in a company and his wife works in the city library.…

    • 878 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Bruchko Story

    • 303 Words
    • 2 Pages

    The fascinating events of the story Bruchko interestingly parallel a situation that occurred in my life a few years ago. What I just read reminds me of the time I tried to introduce the word of God to some of my public school friends, which is similar to Bruce Olsen’s attempts at converting the Indians of the Mavaca River. Arriving in Venezuela, Bruce finds a difficult separation among the local Indian people. Although some of the Indians openly accept Christ, they have been largely shunned as a result of their religious belief. After joining and following the peaceful Indians throughout their daily chores, Bruce confidently goes to speak with the village chief regarding the acceptance of the Christian Indians and is surprised by the chief’s…

    • 303 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Psycho Monologue

    • 2095 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Psycho First of all, I would like to state that I am not insane, deranged, unhinged, or mentally disturbed in anyway. The only reason I am here is because of a bomb. And the nightmares... but nobody knows about those. 1942, Enasni Psychiatric Hospital, Paldiski, Estonia To be truthful, I didn’t hear the screams.…

    • 2095 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Module 7: A Short Story

    • 1319 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Once upon a time, there were three human sisters. Their names were Maia, Phoebe, and Megan. They lived in a great swirling forest, in a tiny cottage with only two rooms. Those two rooms were all they needed, for they only needed tools for when they were out, books and such, and a place to sleep.…

    • 1319 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Barbek Narrative

    • 576 Words
    • 3 Pages

    There’s this park. For years this park brought a family together who are now distant. During those years this park held the greatest family barbeques, get-togethers,baseball and basketball games ever. But it’s not the appearance of the park that makes it special. It’s what is gave me.…

    • 576 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Bam: A Short Story

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages

    Bam was not the same after that, and how could he be? In the short clip made available of his newest TV venture, he says that he had never considered someone close to him dying, and that the shock of Dunn's passing sent him into a drinking spiral. He says it all wild-eyed, slurring, hand bleeding from punching a car window in. His boyish confidence had been transformed into an anxious confusion. The life of Riley he'd built from slapping his dad while asleep and filming it now became broken and unfamiliar, pointless.…

    • 494 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays