The Doorbell Rang

Friendship Shouldn't be Hard It was a prepossessing and extravagant day all the kids were running around on the high palace like buildings with the squishy, but still painful, tire chip ground under them. I knew that this sunny bright day could turn dark at any second if this kid knew about what she had said. My old friend could find a way to be mean to anyone without even a reason. She could do it in less than a second. She did it to me and I didn't even realize it until my other friend…

TJ Harkins Realistic Fiction Short Story Title: We all know the famous Jebron Lames, star small forward for the San Antonio Spurs. But did you know that back in highschool he was known as a failure for getting cut from the Goodpasture Christian Varsity Football team. Let’s look back into that hard time in his life. It was 2008 and the Goodpasture Christian Varsity Football Team was coming off a year where they went all the way to the state semifinals. They had great players such as Keenan…

Bobby was heading to his job for the day and heard a girl scream behind the building. His partners, Molly and Dave, heard the scream to and headed to the back of the building. Molly saw Bobby and said “did you hear that to.” Bobby replied and said “yeah, I heard it in my car while I was coming.” All three of them searched around and didn’t find anything. Bobby’s job was to go to haunted houses. They only go if the house owner reported it to them. Dave said “let's just go back to work and see…

It took her 15 minutes to reach her destination. She rang the doorbell and waited a few seconds. A woman around her mother 's age opened the door and looked surprised. "H-hello" "Hello. M-may I speak to your son?" she said in her usual unfriendly tone, although she tried to make it a little higher. Realizing…

However, she was successful herself. She was recently awarded a post-graduate assistantship to conduct research on the psychological aspects of Aciremanians. Shortly after Amber arrived, Cooper and his wife Rhiannon rang the doorbell. Cooper was my best friend. His father was a doctor so, naturally, Cooper followed in his father’s footsteps and was a second-year medical student. I haven’t known his wife for very long, but she is very beautiful. She’s nearing the end of a…

I left everything behind when I was nine. I restarted almost my entire life, like a snake shedding its old skin. The only thing I still possessed deep inside my heart was the memories. Each one, stored in a special spot. However, there is one treasured memory of my last day in Massachusetts, one that would never fade. ... It was a wintery Saturday and the air chilled me to my bones. The thin blanket may have been fluffy, but it certainly could not keep out the cold. Last night I had stayed…

afternoon changed my routine for the rest of my life. On a cold Friday in the middle of February, I returned home from school and expected to have 30 minutes to relax before my piano lesson. I was in my living room watching TV, when I heard the doorbell ring, and my mom told me, “Emily is here for your piano lesson.” I shuffled to the dining room to have my lesson. My lesson started with playing…

as an editor for a small publishing house and your Christmas break had already started. You were good at your job- if not one of the best- and you enjoyed the work. Getting payed to read seemed like a pretty good job. Hours flew by until the doorbell rang at five. “It’s open!” You called through the small apartment. Zack quietly wandered in through the door and shut it behind him. “I’m in the kitchen!” When Zack entered the kitchen, he was treated to the sight of you covered in flower,…

The very mention of skeletons in the closet sends chills up our spine and immediately through our mind’s eyes, we see a pile of bones in a dark closet. However, that may not always be the case. Often times, the skeletons are a collection of memories and secrets, stored over the years in the secret compartments of our mind, and we alone have access to them. Many of these are wonderful, and enjoyable to share, which we do willingly. However, along with these are unpleasant, often painful memories…

Children are waiting for this day, they lie in wait month by month and plot what costumes they will wear on this day; they figure out who amongst their friends and family will gather the most candy; this day is called Halloween. Halloween is the one day in the whole year where people and children alike dress up in costumes and go door to door in order to accumulate candy, however, one would not think that Halloween was not always a child-friendly holiday but had a shadowy and foggy past.…