Rear-view mirror

way home to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, after a holiday in Montreal. “The story of the alleged UFO abduction of Betty and Barney Hill in New Hampshire in 1961 is well known to the public.” Betty. On their way home saw this bright object in the rear view mirrors. Barney stopped the car to see what this bright object was when. Barney, a 39 year-old black man, was a postal worker, and Betty, a 41 year-old white woman, who worked in the child welfare department. The Hills had embarked on a vacation…

Leaving the Combat Zone Picture a standing army fifty times the size of the present U.S. military. Rather than an invading apocalyptic force that would spell the end of civilization, Leslie Marmon Silko sees this as the solution to domestic violence against women in the United States. Her solution is simple and one that has been brought up before. Simply arm the millions of women in the U.S. with firearms in order to ward off any potential predators or abusers. In her essay, “In the Combat…

Hello Nosleep family. I'm writing to you tonight because I've experienced something grim in the last few days. This is the first time I've had access to anything connected to the internet since shortly after the "incident" began. I've been running on about four hours of fearful "rest" since about five days ago, so please forgive me if my recalling is scattered. I live in a small city of about 15,000 people. There's trees pretty much everywhere, bumpy roads, terrible drivers. I was enjoying the…

“I didn’t kill her.” Tom pleaded with the judge with all his body and soul. “Jury, my client has pleaded with you end on end” as he started to sweat like a pig and in addition “He didn’t kill the victim”. “Witness’s to the podium please (The Jury whacks the hammer with hatred), please proceed. “It all started like this…. (flash back)” as he started to either tell the truth or furthermore tell the most colossal lie of his life. “I was making out with Kate when all of a sudden, a figure burst…

imagination, but they are actually real. They are among us, and are anticipated by society. The human race has had the ability to experience self-driving vehicles for a couple of years now. It started when four to six back up sensors were installed into the rear or front bumper. These allow the operator of the vehicle know when they are about to hit another object behind or in front of the car. These new simple technologies developed into installing a backup camera so the person could see what…

Richard Ramirez, “The Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez was born on February 29, 1960, in El Paso, Texas. The mother that gave birth to him was Mercedes Munoz and the father of Richard is Julian Tapia Ramirez. They both met each other when they were fourteen and eventually fell in love and got married in 1948. Richard was the youngest of five children and as he was going up he had a bad childhood life. He always hung around with his older cousin named “Mike”, Mike always told Richard stories about…

According to Annual Global Road Crash Statistics, nearly 1.3 million people die in car crashes every year. This is an average of three thousand, two hundred, and eighty-seven deaths every day. It is also not including the twenty to fifty million people that are injured or disabled in these accidents. (Road) These car accidents are the effects of texting and driving, drinking and driving, and all other inside-the-car distractions. This statistic the perfect example of a current problem all over…

Mise-en-scene is used in many ways in the film Edward Scissorhands. The diachronic shot played a significant role during the film, it had a variety of focuses, and point of view. For instance, in the film there are two types of focuses that are often used which are; soft focus and rack focus. Soft focus is used in the film when Peg Bogg opens a canned good, it reflects back to Edward who then has a flashback to a bad memory of a machine that makes cookies. This scene relates back to the subtext…

You are walking alone at night, you are silent, you are aware that you’re safe but still there is this underlying thought you have. You hear scary music in your head, making you think something is wrong, could something be around the corner, is someone following you, is a scary clown about to pop out at you (yeah sorry I have a small fear of clowns). You turn the corner and escape the dreaded, cold, and dark area you were just walking through. You were completely safe, so what was the issue, you…

ended in a single moment. The air was warm on her pale skin as she breathed in the smell of cold rain falling from the gray sky above, the moon peeking through the clouds. The pine air freshener in the shape of a green tree, hanging from the rear view mirror swung back and forth as the car moved. Window rolled down, she watched as the raindrops rolled down the cold glass as if in a race, her fingertips…