I felt like I had been walking for eternity. My empty stomach was growling, and my dry throats burned. I was starting to feel faint from dehydration, but I licked my chapped lips and limped on, dragging my iron behind me. I knew that if I stopped to rest, the police would close in on me in an instant, and I would be locked up for the rest of my life for a crime I didn't commit. The ground started to feel squishy between my freezing bare toes as I entered the marsh country. The police would catch…
Taken It was like any other regular day. The chickens were in the hen house and sounded loud, the cows were in the pasture grazing, sleeping, and eating grass, the horses were in the barn getting settled up ready go on our morning ride. As we go through the pasture we get the feeling we are being watched and the feeling has been going on for a couple months. Animals have come up missing, there has been random bones found and then we realize that there are more bones then there should be as in…
drivers and the hassle our drivers to endure on a daily basis. According to TRIP, a national transportation research organization, in 2014, 49 percent of our major roads and highways are in mediocre condition (Hernandez). In just two years, our city went from having 27 percent, an already significant number, to nearly half of our roads in mediocre condition - ridiculous (Schmitt)! It doesn’t make sense for such a colossal and prosperous city to have anything other than great roadways when the…
Being near railroad crossings and railroads in general can be a very dangerous thing to be around. However, as long as we practice the right safety measures and precautions we can go past them without injury. To start there are road signs that you should always follow while driving near railroad crossings. At most railroad crossings there are crossing gates, flashing lights, and loud bells if to make sure you know that a train is approaching. You should never go around them because a train will…
Squinting into the mid morning sunlight, Ashleigh saw the tangle of knots that made up the Pioneers Ropes Course at Spring Lake Camp, the course that she was expected to have completed by...today. It sure does look high, she thought, and they were, that is, if you considered fifty feet in the air to be high. No one’s fell...yet. “Ashleigh! Ashleigh, where are you?” Tom, Ashleigh’s ropes counselor called. “It’s your turn!” Ohh great, Ashleigh thought. “I’m coming, Tom! I’m right…
while he waits for her to arrive. Leaning his body against the gate he blows out a cloud of smoke thinking about her; since he was destined to have her. Taking another hit off his joint, he looks down the dark path to see her walking up the moon lit road. She was nervous, so she giggles" Pass that shit" holding her hand out while twirling her hips. Jamie smirks before handing the joint over to her "If it ain't green it ain't us" he repiled as he watches her lean against the gate next to…
It was a hot summer afternoon. I had been working all day. Normally I would be with a crew of 4 to 5 people all the same as the day before, but today was different today i was working with a whole new crew of men I had never seen in my life. It was especially weird when the guy in a all black suit pulled up. He got out and said he was my new boss but when I had asked him what happened to the rest of the crew and my old boss he told me to be quiet and do the work I was assigned. It wasn’t till…
Once there were three kids on a mission to find something. Two boys and one girl, Stanley, Zero, and the one girl, Lucy. All sent to camp Green Lake for “steeling jewelry”. Although all of them know that they didn’t do anything or steel anything. After only a few long months in Camp Green Lake they were all ready to run away. Even though it was in the middle of a blazing hot dessert filled with Yellow Spotted Lizards that would bite you with their poisonous venom. It was very scary out there but…
Creeping in the Shadows In Boca Raton, Florida it seems as if the scorching sun is always beating down on the ebony tarmac, the trees swaying with a small breeze, the sky crystal blue, it is a constant summer no matter the season. I see a small boy come into the picture. He is young, wearing a long sleeve St.Andrew’s shirt, Jeans and loafers. His hair is jet black and he has tan skin. A small boy follows behind him. The boys run everywhere. They ran to the mailbox, ran down the street, ran from…
Imagine traveling in the bare winds and rain, running on buffalo chips, and not a lick of sleep. This was the life of a cowboy during the long drive. These long drives took place during the Civil War and late 1800’s. Cowboys would advance herds from the southern tip of Texas to the small towns of Kansas where they would be fattened up to then be transported to Chicago where they would be slaughtered (Intro). While this trip must have been adventurous as it was difficult, the question is if I…