he felt toward pete. Could you blame him he didn't know his parents because they died when he was very young and the could emotionally hurt a kid. I think all kids need to know someone loves them no matter how they are. At the beginning of the story pete said “ a while back suckers parents died in a crash when he was young so we took him in.” That's how you know he wanted someone to love him like a mother and a…
Time is like a river. You cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. Childhood is the time in life where memories are forged yet they have do not really have a sentimental feeling. Now that those times are nearly gone, I begin to regret not cherishing them longer... Home is the starting place of love hope and dreams. "Run from the dragon mommy!! It's coming towards us!!" I hollered as loud as I could with my five-year-old…
Everyone has their own “Crucible” on this journey that we call life. Some are worse than others, but mine begins right around the last month of the 2015 school year. The genre of this story is romance. I got myself into a relationship, I wish I was more prepared for. I started dating this one girl, and we were together for quite a while. A lot of people would probably say we were too young for love, but trust me, it was real. I would say that some things may have been my fault, I was insecure. I…
THE COMET The raven was soaring aimlessly high above the twinkling stars and below was a neighborhood as quiet as a cricket’s crick except for one. Residents were inside their gated community not giving a damn about what is outside. Well, the only things they care about are their luxurious homes and their platinum cards. If one was to take it, all hell would break lose but what if one were to give it all up? That late night something sparked in the middle of its streets and it produced lights so…
Caw! "Caw," said the crow. The girl let go of the string. Her balloon soared into the sky. She bawled. Down came the black bird and pecked out her eyes. She fell. Her stolen eyes a birthday treat. # "High trolollie lollie lol, High trolollie lee, Happy day, old Carrion, Happy day to me. Caw, caw, caaaaw!" Chasm John Sebastian crept closer. The Chasm called to him, opening its arms. Emptiness greyed his cheeks. His face numbed. And his footing, once firm and sure,…
When Sedaris finally finds himself taking his Mother’s advice to check himself, the one thing that distracts him from this self-reflection is the television. For example, when he says “here is a boy sitting on a bed, his mouth smeared with chocolate. He's a human being, but also he's a pig, surrounded by trash and gorging himself so that others may be denied. Were this the only image in the world, you'd be forced to give it your full attention, but fortunately there were others. This stagecoach,…
A breeze fluttered Perceval’s hair as he gazed in desolation at the closed drawbridge on the other side of the moat. What was he to do now? He needed that Grail to heal not only the Fisher King, but also his ill mother. Perceval pulled on the reins of his horse and brought it about-face towards the ominous forest behind him. He saw no point in raving like a madman at the deserted castle, and so, the only option Perceval saw left was to venture into the woods to look for someone who could tell…
Jax stood in front of the metal tube that now contained the woman he now knew he loved. She was dead, well, not truly dead, she was cryogenically frozen. They had pumped her bloodstream full of chemicals and dropped her temperature down to below negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. They would wait until they had some way to save her life. Jax only hoped that they hadn't been too late and there was no way to save her. Probabilities were high that she would never be saved. Tears had dried up long ago,…
As gunshots fired Salva saw a soldier walking towards the direction of his home,as Salva watched in horror his vision turned red as he charged out of the bush. He grabbed a rock and smashed the soldier in the head full force killing him. His vision turned normal and he started shaking, he realized he just killed a man, but he rushed towards his house to help his family so he grabbed the soldierś knife and started running. As he ran he realized how what happened worked. Heś a smart boy when he is…
A short story is brief but has to contain meaningful story to make readers interested. Even if a story has mass of ideas or has a good and long structures, people will not focus on reading and start quitting reading if it is too complicated. Also, a story affects totality. Totality can define unity. So, a short story unifies ideas by holding each person’s single emotion. Edgar Allan Poe, who made the theory of short story, insists a short story is all about “brevity and the necessary coherence…