Short Story Continuing “Patient Zero” Exposition: With his hot suit on Jay wonders away from the hospital with a growling stomach in search for food. He finds rotten withered vegetables inside an abandoned shack and eats what’s left of them to tie him over until he comes upon another source of energy. His town is dead and to him it seemed like no one survived, not even Ms. Manigat. He saw deserted cars that had rusted almost all of the color off of them with no life within.…
MILLERSBURG — A fund to benefit the family of April Rogers has been established at First-Knox National Bank in Millersburg. Rogers died in a Sunday morning house fire. She leaves behind husband, Volley, and children, Jace, Samantha, Savannah and Seth. In addition to losing a wife and mother, they lost most of their material possessions and many memories to the fire, according to Rogers' aunt, Pam Deal, who said the fund was established to receive monetary donations to help the family begin to rebuild. “They have absolutely nothing.…
One night while they were asleep there was a fire shock inside the house and unfortunately that fire shock turn into a big fire. Consequently, the house began burning. They were able to get the family out without any major injuries, but the whole house burnt to ashes. They felt hopeless and out of place because they had nowhere to live in.…
It was a cold day in Summertonville, TN. Summertonville was a very rural area. Whenever looked outside, you were surrounded by trees. In the back woods of Summertonville lived the Winkledomes. The Winkledomes were a fairly poor family.…
Johnny Cade is a 16-year-old boy who lives in the neighborhood of Meadowbrook, with his mom and dad. Johnny’s parents are abusive, and he takes his parents’ abuse to him personally. On top of that, he doesn't quite get enough to eat, and he often sleeps outdoors. According to Ponyboy Curtis, one of his close friends, he says he “looks like a little dark puppy that has been kicked too many times and is lost in a crowd of strangers”. To make things even worse, Johnny was brutally beaten by the “Socs” last spring and now lives in a constant state of fear.…
In Grandview, Idaho there lived three teenagers, Cody, Clayton, and Cole Wright they are all cousins that would rodeo. Cody and Clayton are nineteen years old, and Cole is eighteen years old. Clayton’s junior and senior year of high school he took first place in the High School Rodeo National Finals in the bull riding and now has qualified for the NFR ( National Finals Rodeos ) in Las Vegas coming in second place in the world. Cody as qualified for the NFR two years in row but coming in First place in the world leading the average. Cole is a rookie, fresh outta high school.…
The 9/11 Day There was a girl named Alice. She had never met her mother nor father. One day a woman named Kendra Malik Taylor, who adopted Alice when she was 2. Alice never loved Kendra as a child would to their parents. She would yell, cry, hit, ignore, try to run away, have a tantrum, and won't wouldn’t listen.…
On March 22, 1988 Aimee was born to Andy and Donna Copeland. She was their second child, and they were blessed to have her. With the first child, they had to undergo months of fertility treatment, and four months after giving birth to their first child Paige, Aimee was conceived. As Aimee was growing up she started a Bible club at age nine and got her first job at the age of fourteen.…
Then hilly tells Skeeter to but out her newsletter and Skeeter changes it a bit and Hilly ends up with toilets in her yard instead of what she wanted. Aibileen was going home that night from work and was told to get off of the bus y the bus driver because an African American male was shot by the KKK. Minnie is talking to Aibileen about how unfair their lives are unfair and about how she was scared about if the KKK caught them talking to Skeeter what they might do. Aibileen told her they have to be careful. One of Aibileens friends was arrested by the police for trying to pawn a ring and that was enough to get all of the maids needed to finish her book.…
There’s a little slice of Heaven in Marshall, Texas, where the sun shines through the pines and the sound of cicadas serenade you throughout your afternoon and the lake shines like a plate of polished silver in the early morning sun. When I first came to Camp Fern, I was on my own. Everyone else had known each other for at least two years, so I was the odd one out. In my cabin there was the usual sort. There was the popular one, the attention seeker, the joker, and the one you love to hate.…
Brooklyn With this trip came some road bumps. Due to the last minute decision to go on this trip nobody packed waters. Or substantial food. As I drove, Mia scanned for somewhere to get sustenance. After 25 minutes, we pulled up to a cramped grocery store.…
I heard my scooter wheels harshly scratching against the rocky pavement. I glanced up to see a very unfamiliar place and Pearl, my best friend. I felt my stomach growl a roar of hunger calling for food as I remembered the lunch I had a lengthy and tiring 4 hours ago. I wanted to go back to Pearl’s house to play so dreadfully. We were lost and we needed to get back home, soon.…
Cecilia woke up on the middle of the floor. Her heart beat fast as she leapt to her feet and ran out of the house just in time to see the smoking house crumble behind her. Cecilia stood in horror as her childhood home burnt to the ground. She was too overwhelmed to do much except for examine the memories of old that shot threw her head, like when Jeremy rode her like a horse through the living room, and he laughing like nothing in the world was wrong. Jeremy.…
With the fire quickly approaching, they had no time to lose. The fire was 50 meters away. Jackson and Julia attempted to away as fast as they could, but it did not seem to be quick enough. It crept ever closer and closer, edging upon the gap between them. The fire was 25 meters away.…
Scary summer camp The summer of 2015 was the scariest summer I ever had. School was out so I decided to embark on a much anticipated camping trip with my friends Melvin, Tom, Danny, Tasha, and Brenda .We stayed up for hours planning, preparing. July 20th finally arrived we jumped in my car and drove the five miles to River rock mountain. On arrival we speedily got out of the car in awe.…