“Killing the Big One” It was just any ordinary day in January and deer season was in full swing. We had been hunting hard all season and I was still yet to get my first ever deer. I was being patient though and not trying to rush things because even at the sight of deer my heart would start pounding out of my chest! My dad would always remind me “You just have to breath and stay calm then aim at the front shoulder and squeeze the trigger.”…
Does anyone know what happens when you get stressed? Well you get sick. The heat did that to the antelopes, but because the weather changed so quickly in this particular year and the antelopes still had on their wooly coats from the…
“The Most Dangerous Game” narrative centers around about 3 things: hunting, Rainsford, and his attempt to stay alive. There are two people, Rainsford and Whitney, that are on a yacht and they are hunters. They pass an island and Whitney tells Rainsford that it is a dangerous place. Whitney leaves Rainsford to get ready for bed. While Rainsford is alone, he hears 3 gunshots, which makes confusion and interest blossom in his mind.…
The Hunted I didn’t know who I was. I woke up next to a bunch of muddy kids. They all smelled like they haven't showered in weeks. There was two twins, a chubby kid, and probably the skinniest kid I’ve ever seen. Then I realized I smelled just like them.…
It was a mild, dark summer day in the Alaskan wilderness so I was out hunting with one of my buddies, Alex Smith. Me and and Alex first met in 5th grade, we’ve been close friends ever since. I had a Beretta Ballista that shoots a .308 Lapua Magnum so I could shoot long distances and Alex had a AR-15 that shoots a 5.56*.39. I was in the deep woods in a treestand and Alex was just about 20 yards away in a ground blind. I saw some movement in the distance but it was very dark at night with no moon…
Danielle Helms described the day her family changed to Oprah's cameras. After returning from church in the afternoon, Danielle heard her husband scream for her to call 911. Going down the hall while on the phone, Danielle watched her husband cut her daughter down from the shower pole. How did this happen? After finding out that Kristin had a profile up on a social networking site, Danielle took the computer away for more than 5 months, but Kristin had already started a relationship with 27 year-old Kylie Ryan Bowers.…
It happened one cool fall evening and Chase was with his dad to a surprise, chase did not know what it was but he did know it could go up on price by a-thousand. (his dad got a big business loan) As the car was pulling up in the parking garage chase was too short and couldn’t see out the window but his seat was also blocking him (he was five years of age). When he got out of the car and he was walking along he saw it, it was… The Pet Store thing!…
I have aged enough to know that there are not physical monsters lurking beneath my bed or in my closet waiting to make their appearance in the brink of the night. Instead, I get the burden of “grown up” monsters, the monsters that don’t go away with a goodnight kiss or a nightlight. My personal monsters aren’t super scary in the frightening, yelping manner, yet they define a new category of much deeper presence. These monsters are insecurities that have built up a wall blocking my view from the real world and creating a perception within me of a false, negative reality. I have grown up in an era of massive monstrosity through my society that revolves around achieving and maintaining perfection in all aspects of life.…
It is the humane thing to do. Aya and the refugees are suffering and we can help. We cannot be selfish or passive about this. America is looked down on for its insensitivity and foolishness. Where is our humanity and love?…
He had never slept in a better bed Rainsford decided. Rainsford woke up the next morning got out of his bed and put his old clothes on. He went down to the dining hall and had breakfast that he fixed. On his way to the dining hall, he saw really old pictures of Zaroff family, he felt scared because the paintings always had the biggest animal they have hunted even little boys in Zaroff's family had them. He had the best bacon hashbrowns and pancakes he had ever eaten.…
I am becoming impatient, it feels as if we have been waiting for this guest forever. I look over to Hobbens who has been nervously chewing on his lip, tapping his fingers against his hip, and shuffling around. Huffing out a breath he turns and walks into Rafe's room. Hobbens's long stride is eating up the distance between us as he emerges from the room.…
Over the course of the last 15 years, my body has been taken over by FBI handlers for experimentation ad surveillance. It started just after September 11, 2001, and it has caused immense challenges for me in my own life. I went from running my own business to slapping myself, yelling and being completely unable to work. My business closed down, and I was put into a mental hospital by my father. This was done, I believe, as an attempt to discredit me by diagnosing me as bipolar and schizophrenic.…
When I feed the wolf of fear and hate, I care about people who hurt me and my precious; my family, friends and my boyfriend. I am usually calm and do not like to hate people, but I do not like some of them who do not like me and people around me. For example, when I was a junior high school student in Japan, one of my friend was bullied. At that time, I was really annoyed because of the bully. However, I was angry myself simultaneously.…
The Earths population is around seven billion people. It would be impossible to learn the names of everyone in this world , let alone try to get to know everyones character. Yet everyone in this world seems to share one common thing with one another. Judgement. Although we do not know what others are going through , or what they are like , we tend to make quick judgements about others, wishing we may have it as “easy “ as them.…
One of the many mysteries of life is how you can overcome so much and still come out “normal”. Many of us have run into many obstacles and was stuck as they say between a “rock and a hard place”. Throughout my life, many obstacles were thrown at me starting through my early childhood all the way to the day I am writing this. I Have gone through forever changing experiences. From being the victim my entire life, I have learned what I wanted to be when I grew up.…