Short Story Essay

“It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen,” (Wooden John) This quote is very true to me because of what happened to me after a long day of fencing in Dallas Texas during the summer of 2016. Nervousness griped my heart harder than my younger brother who was gripping hand so tightly that I was sure his knuckles were whiter than ebony. We were sitting in the back of my aunts small car as we drove silently through the streets with sirens blaring, and police lights…

Winter has assuredly acclimatized in his face. His albino eyes abuse to avalanche, his angled eyebrows are like leafless copse or anachronistic with no expression. His derma is chicken and anemic and his arch arctic with darkness. Winter was as well a division of stiffened abhorrent bond for Claudia, Frieda and Pecola. They waited for spring. But the bond was alone and disrupted by a new baby in the academy called ‘Maureen Peal’. She is advised as an advocate of seasons and compared to bounce…

Andy Biersack was in the South tower for a business meeting on the 69th floor. He was in the middle of the meeting listening to a speech when the first plane hit. Fire and smoke were everywhere. He got down to the working elevators. Andy decided not to use the elevator for safety reasons. He wouldn’t chance it. Instead, he took the stairs. He started down the stairs, then heard a mother and her baby crying behind one door. He walked in and saw that the mother was holding her baby, but something…

flashbacks and foreshadowing. In the story, “The Nose” Gogol uses all of these elements to create the mystery of how a nose was found, was lost, and eventually returned. The reader is engaged throughout the story by the author’s use of these multiple literary components, creating mystery surrounding the story of who, what, when, where and why the nose was lost. At the story’s beginning, the author creates mystery with the use of foreshadowing. The first line of the story, “On the 25th March,…

adventure. My two friends Cloe, Teya, and I were bored and didn’t have anything to do, so we decided to go to Maryville. We went to Workman’s Chapel, which is right outside of Maryville. Workman’s Chapel is an old haunted church and cemetery. The story behind Workman’s Chapel is that a preacher stabbed a woman in a white dress to death and hid the knife under the floor boards of the church. Another woman was hung from one of the trees towards the back of the church. When you go to the old…

+++ Several days went by without incident, Andrew and Margaret began thinking James’s threats were nothing more than idle threats. Knowing they were returning him to prison, he would never have an opportunity to hurt them. Often times, Andrew and Margaret became careless regarding their surroundings. One morning, Andrew went to get the morning paper and noticed a small box lying on the porch. Picking it up, he went back in the house calling out, “Hey, Margaret, someone left us a surprise.”…

Voorhees manly chest, tugging at his athletic nipples. Stevie knew Voorhees’ trigger zones, having spied on his neighbor jerking himself on more than one occasion. Voorhees moaned, while his cock swelled. Soon enough, Stevie pulled down Voorhees gym shorts, and began stroking his neighbor’s dick, while he began sucking with his wired nips. “Fuck,” Voorhees murmured, and continued, “Stevie, if you keep this up, I’m going to fuck your virgin…

To save his family, a financially desperate man makes a somber decision to end his life, but his actions have grave consequences. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: BARRET KARLSSON (42), a proud man, becomes despondent and financially desperate when his work hours are cut back on his job. He promises his wife, LAUREN, and his young son MAX (8), that everything will be fine. Swallowing his pride, Barret turns to his estranged father, TRYG KARLSSON (65), for help. Tryg is willing to give Barret the money, but…

Name wanted nothing more but for time to hurry up. His eyes, the dreadful colour of jealousy and greed, darted between the clock and the vacant seat across his table. He was sure that the clock enjoyed how agonisingly slow this wait was. It ticked by at a sluggish pace, in a weird mechanic sort of laughter that no one but Name could understand. Everyone else said that it was impossible for clocks to feel emotion, let alone laugh. But Name knew better. He knew clocks were demonic creations that…

The story "Apocaltptigirl" by Andrew Maclean takes place in post-apocalyptic world. The main charters in the story are Aria and her cat Jelly Beans. In the beginning of the visual novel we see the Aria going through a city full of vegetation growing in the buildings. Aria seems to be working on a robot, but later in she tells the story between the fighting of the graybeards and blue stripes. Later on the story we find out that that her mission is to find some type of object; however, she gets…