P.4 “Just Lather, That's All” Murder is not as simple as it seems. In the short story “Just Lather, That's All” the reader learns that killing is not as easy as it is put out to be. A man that works at a barbershop, is one day faced with a difficult decision. Torres, the captain of rebel-hunting excursions, walks into his shop on a sunny day, requesting a shave from the man (who secretly happens to be a rebel).…
Valley Fair The weekend I went to my grandma's she told me my dad had a surprise for me. I had to go see but I thought it was like a present or something but I was wrong…
Everyone has been confronted with a stressful situation where the end consequence would be dire. I know I was under the guillotine when a swarm of Hornets ended up surrounding me and turned my world dark. Yet, I was not stung once. It was a summer afternoon in Colorado when I had recalled a loud buzzing noise.…
Title My life has been a series of bad timing and bad luck. I believe if Lemony Snickets would have heard my story she would have titled her series The Series of Semi-Unfortunate Events. When most kids look back on their childhood they think about family vacations, the time they built a tree house with dad or running through the sprinklers when I look back the first thing I think of is when my parents got divorce. I don’t want to set the wrong picture for my childhood, it was great.…
Communication The Key to Happiness in the Parent Child Relationship What is the most important quality necessary for a strong parent-child relationship? Eye contact with a parent is a unique connection with no verbal response, yet it still projects guidance (4). In the short story “Write Me Sometime” the father feels a sense of connection with his daughter when she writes him letters, and when he takes her out for lunch. Feeling the sense of support by sending a letter to a parent, knowing they are reading and understanding is a great feeling to have.…
Taiga smiles, wide yet sad. Hands clenched into fists, Ryuuji stares at her face. It feels heavy, the tick of the clock marking each painful second that passes. Crimson red colors his face, love was something that never got easier for both of them.…
It was very very perfect sunshiny day on Wednesday November 11, 2015. I woke up at my house in Middletown and getting ready for my mom to take me to my orthodontist appointment in Muncie. On the way there we talked the whole time about life, well just about anything really and of course we were jamming out to some toons. It went from a great fantastic day to the worst day of my life.…
Soda, I’m very sorry I didn’t tell you earlier, but i was afraid you would worry about me. Right when I thought that nothing else would be worse than being hit by Darry… As I am writing this letter right now, I still can’t believe… quiet, harmless Johnny who wouldn’t dare hurt a living thing… It was all my fault. I just want to let you know that I am very sorry and please don’t worry about me, both you and Darry.…
You were sitting on the chair looking through your snapchat as you wait for your two best friends, Sasori and Deidara, searching for a new pair of shoes. “How about this one Sasori? Deidara asked. “Or this one?” “No.…
“Coward or Hero?” Cowardice is knowing what you should do and then declining to do it. This is most evident in the short story “Just Lather That’s All”. It is a story about a barber who prides himself in being the ‘best barber in town’.…
This is the story of how an 8 year old boy changed my life. After school everyday I would take the shuttle bus to Mountain Way Elementary to help a boy named Sylas. Sylas was in third grade and he has Autism which doesn't help him a lot socially or academically. He is exceptionally smart but he has a hard time focusing on his work. So at the end of his school day I would sit with him to help him stay on task, I would help him brainstorm for his essays, and read his books with him.…
Once there was a girl named Katie who thought everything,every moment would be perfect that's not how it was going. It was two days before her 13th birthday and everything was a disaster Her friends were fighting,Party canceled and,she ordered the wrong cake. The worst thing of all everyone expected her to act a certain way. " So I guess today's the last day I'm 12,"I said to myself as I walked out of my room. I looked outside rain pouring I had to walk to the bus.…
“What we fear of doing most is usually what we need to do,” Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was bright sunny Saturday morning that was absolutely beautiful. I was waiting on the top of the grassy green hill as the wind wised through my blonde hair. I grabbedmy pink floral helmet and strapped it on my head. My dad came running out of the garage saying “I found the screw driver!”…
A wanderer once asked, “Did we ever live in a world where human, mythological creature, dragons, and other elemental beings lived harmoniously, ” “or are heaven and any mystical realms just human’s imagination ?”. If the answer for the second question is ‘yes’, then this story is about to put it to its doom. At the outlying district, where an adolescent boy named Starlet Skvotszhana, lived with an old couple, Mr. and Mrs. Roofey. He was raised as an outcaste, he didn’t even know who were his parents.…
Settling into my armchair, I glance out the window, taking in my surroundings. It’s another warm October day in Messina as the Celeste sky manages to peek through the clouds. Exhausted from a long day of tending to patients, I feel myself starting to drift off, escaping the chaos of being the town’s leading medici et phisici, a healer and person learned in science. All of a sudden, the front door slams, jolting me awake. The rapidly approaching footsteps cause me to sit up in apprehension.…