The sun shined down on my back while I jumped in my car and began started the engine. I couldn’t wait to get to my friends house, to watch the first game of the World Series. This year, it was the Giants vs the A’s, two teams from the Bay Area. Being a Giants fan I couldn’t wait to watch the game with my buddies. I pushed my foot on the gas pedal, urging my car to go faster so I could get to my friends house before the first pitch.…
The thriving 21 year old signed his name on the mission’s trip sheet. Little did he know, this endeavour, he was about to partake in would change his life in ways unknown. Randy Schertz was a young, lean man who was ready to take on a challenge. He was very interested in the missions work his church was doing. The Mennonite church he attended, was wanting a few young adults to sign up and do some work in Brazil.…
Now I’m an hour late for my flight!” he angrily detested himself, trying to scamper his clothes back on and drag himself through the door and into his car. The day was silent, not a thing was scurrying, as the breeze eerily passes by above. He quickly drove off trying his best to reach the highway as quickly as he can.…
“Look, the people are waving at us,” Charles said to the pilot. Almost unconsciously, the pilot rocked the wings back and forth in a wave. Nneeeaaaoo.…
Juvenile Boot Camps Butterflies fluttered in Andrew’s stomach as the wailing sirens developed closer and closer. All Andrew could deliberate was how disappointed his parents were going to be, how he blew his chances of his new car. Everything just went down the drain. Andrew was from a wealthy family, and was raised well. He was a child of good, never made rebellious choices until Saturday night.…
The sky is dark, damp, and warm, the slight red undertones are glowing through the clouds. I never expected something like this to happen in my short lifetime, Mauna Loa was erupting for the first time in twenty-five years. I watched as the ash rained down on the roofs of nearby houses, coating the entire town in what could have been perceived as warm, black snow. I felt my heart rise into my throat, causing me to choke out a dry sob. I was twenty-one, I finally had a house, and now I was going to die in this massive storm of lava and rubble.…
“Why oh why” screeched Uno. “I don’t understand why they won’t let us out either!” cried Deuce. “It looks nice outside, right?” “Lets sneak out of the house.”…
After what seemed like years, we were finally dismissed to go home. I was the first kid out the doors and I sprinted as fast as I could to my mom’s car. It was 3:20 P.M. when I got home, and it would be only four hours and ten minutes until my life would be changed forever. I had been waiting…
Fitzsimmons Helpless Running down the street, I held back a sob. I wasn’t prone to crying, but today was an exception. I kept on running until I got to a dark alley where I thought it was safe and no one would find me. Stopping is something I hate to do because silence makes me think about what had happened.…
13:30 am Bang Bam Boom “let me in I mean no harm.” It’s Dr. Frink says Marge let him in. Mr. Burns Screams no and pushed him outside into the waiting hands of the Zombie drunks. You awful man screams marge he wasn't contaminated he was the only one who could invent a machine to save us.…
Quickening my breath, I felt my lungs stop accepting the air that I gave to them. Sadly, I was never going to survive the agony of continuing on; I felt an acute pain in my side. Suddenly, a random blonde haired girl about my age rushed passed me and many more runners followed her. I was losing the battle. Weighed down by the grass that tugging at my feet, I tried to hold my head high and focus.…
1800’ slavery Step after step, trying to regain consciousness after getting hit again after again. My energy was completely drained from all the whipping. I looked over my shoulders; this was going to be the worst scar yet. As I was trying to focus on my loss of energy instead of the pain from my back, I was hit on the back of my head, it was the guard. The guard had a worn down brown shirt, a pair of black, solid horse shoes to kick us with and worst of all, a smirk on his face signalling anything but good.…
During my sophomore year, I heard about elections for the president of National Math Honor Society, or NMHS. I was excited as I saw this as the opportunity I had to instill a love of math for my fellow high school peers. Since I had been at the top of my math classes during high school, I anticipated an easy triumph for me, so I imprudently stood idle while my opponents campaigned. Unfortunately, after the voting by my fellow students, I learned I had lost to a junior. I shrank down in my seat and tears formed in my eye, showing my humiliation.…
* Warning: May be to grim for some readers. Saturday Deaf The dandelion rays blasted through the window panes, which woke twelve years old Sarah up, in warm delight on a Saturday morning. As her eyelids parted, the glare of rays reflecting from her eyes showed her determination to finally get off her bed, yet her body thought otherwise.…
I tore out of that hospital like a tornado, got in the car, and slammed the door. I started the engine and drove around the parking lot. My movements were jerky, and I kept slamming into cars, but I didn’t care. Johnny couldn’t be dead! He just couldn’t!…