9/11 Essay

Once, when I was eight, I spent the night at my friend’s house. We loved to paint, Zoie and I, and that night, we painted for hours. We laughed and painted everything we loved. We were young. Nothing could hurt us. But that night quickly turned upside-down. That night, Zoie and I heard screaming coming from outside and that night, her mother stumbled through the back door in a tattered, black dress, smelling of cigarettes. She was crying but it was not just any cry. It was like her eyes were…

The roar of the one-hundred and forty miles per hour wind shook our house. All I could hear was the creaking and cracking of the walls and floorboards in our kitchen. “Grab anything you can!” my mom yells worriedly. The lights flickered on and off as the storm water slowly but steadily seeped into our small, single story home. I held the flashlight as my mom and dad quickly grabbed food and water out of the cabinet. “Eddy, keep the light on the cabinet!” Yells my dad. The murky water was up…

I woke up straight out of a nightmare. I bolted up with my mouth open in a silent scream. I felt arms wrap around me and lips on my ear. But they didn’t give me comfort. Instead I became frantic, trying to get away from the arms closing in around me. From what I thought was to come. My hand connected to the person’s face and they released me quickly and I fled, running in the woods. “Murmur,” the things yelled as it grabbed me again before I could reach the woods. “It was a dream. You are safe…

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. Those men took my family away and I might never be able to see them again. I heard a sound and I ducked behind the enormous gray dumpster. They were coming, but I wasn’t going to make it…

A beautiful day in strawberry, Mississippi, walking down the sidewalk, seeing folks past by. Seeing the green trees dancing in the little wind, and seeing more folks` passing by. With my older sister, Lillian Jean, and my two younger brothers, R.W and Melvin, they awfully quiet today. we was walking down to meet our papa. He was selling our crops to get money. My sister was taking but it don’t matter to me, so I doze off. “You even paying attention to me Jeremy?” she snapped at me. “ Yes,…

The day was shining bright & was steaming hot me & a friend were walking down the street.She then had an idea to race.I thought about it for a while. I didn’t want to hurt her feelings so i said “okay let’s do it.” First,Let me rewind back to the beginning .The day started a little cloudy and droopy but then it got sunny once it hit 1:00pm. So we woke up got dressed and left to go eat breakfast. Then as we were walking down the street shelby had mentioned racing to the dining hall ( buffet…

“I can remember opening my eyes in panic, hearing sirens and everybody screaming and crying. Terror in everyone's eyes everywhere I looked, people were running trying to get to their loved ones. I was wearing jeans that had been torn from when I fell, with a t-shirt and running shoes. My face was covered in dirt along with my hair from all the smoke that were being made from the burning houses and building. Then it hit me, i was traveling with my best friend: Sam, before the explosion, I turn in…

One humid morning in April as the gray sky threatens to pour down again, two sisters set out together. They have just begun to cross the street when they first see it. The younger of them points, though the thing has already caught her sister's attention. "Look!" It is stiff and flattened on the road, ripped open grotesquely for all to see. Ants have started to form scurried lines around it, eager to taste the flesh. A few flies disperse as the girls move closer to the object. They exchange no…

Matt and Erin decided to go their local mall. Matt clumsy walked over to Erin's place,and they proceeded to walk to the mall. They continued to look in stores, but that got boring really fast. They later got kicked out from the mall for causing trouble, and they walked the parking lot behind the mall. Matt noticed something from his peripheral vision. As if he was in a trance, he followed the shadow down a maze of alleyways. "I don't we should be back here," Erin whimpered. Matt quickly…

Stepping into the dark gloomy hallway, I examined the situation. The walls had blood splattered on them. The floor now home to several young corpses. Luckily none moved when I poked them with my umbrella, giving me the signal it was clear. After I gave my friends a thumbs up, they hurried into the hallway. Lights flickered on and off quickly. "What's with the lights?" Samie pondered, trying to stay quiet. But before I could answer Samie, I heard a loud thud as if something or someone fell.…