The Doorbell Rang

“I’m not good at stories, Pidge. Why do you need one?” “Because I’m having the anxiety of a lifetime for the testing we have tomorrow.” “You’re smart, you’ll do fine. Go to sleep.” “Ah, come on Hunk, bore me with one of your stories!” Hunk signed, plugging in his lava lamp for extra light, “Alright, fine. Uh, the story takes place in New Orleans, 1930.” “No, no, no! Do the flapper days of the 1920’s!” “Okay, okay! New Orleans, in the 1920’s. With a man named Keith, who is in his early twenties,…

alien to him. “Sami my boy, your father is going through a very complex time and he needs our assistance. Be delighted that he is here for your sixteenth birthday.” I loved my mom and older brother more than any one, so I decided to obey her. The doorbell rang and I felt discouraged to open the door, so I gave…

I just don’t understand why my old man keeps telling me his lectures over and over again. It’s not like I am a bad boy or anything like that. I just failed math, not such a big deal, you know what I mean. I just know if I go home my old man would lecture endlessly about my poor efforts in math. He would always say, “I had to leave school when I was thirteen, that’s a year younger than you are now. If I’d had half the chances you have, I’d...” All that stuff that I could care less about. I…

14. Honey, I 'm home! Honey Trap: Slang for use of men or women in sexual situations to intimidate or snare others As my dad and Nash came to check on me, I saw Blake run out behind them and grab my dad 's neck, swiftly cracking it. Mr Norton 's boyfriend was also there and he was working on taking down Nash. I felt a wave of relief wash over me and I saw Savanna standing behind them. She was safe and I was safe and Blake was here and everything was perfect. Once Mr Norton 's boyfriend had…

Arriving home a day earlier from his business trip, Mike wanted to surprise his wife. After a busy trip, he was happy that he had not forgotten her anniversary present before leaving town. While driving, he reevaluated his life and decided in spite of the problems he was a lucky man with a successful business, nice family, the freedom to do as he pleased ─ most of the time. Entering the house, Mike noticed Louise was watching TV in the family room with a drink in her hand, she asked, “Did…

“Everything has to be perfect! If it is not perfect, then I will fail. And if I fail then I would go to MIT. And if I don’t go to , then I would be able to have a successful life!” I screamed while I was in the middle of freaking out about my future. “You’re going to be alright, honey. Everything is going to be fine,” my mom explain. I crunched on the floor, shaking. I felt like I was going to throw up and that I had no sense of direction in my life. The college admissions essay was due in two…

Sometimes in life, we take a moment, or a place, or even just a person for granted. But we need to learn how to embrace every experience fully and completely. Each day, then, is a journey in discovering the value of the things we take for granted. These experiences teach us how we ought to live in the future. However, we tend to realize this when it is too late, because not everything in life lasts forever. No matter how much time has passed, these things that were taken for granted will still…

The Experiment If I had met Joey and Miss B in different places, I never would have pictured them in the same room. I sure wouldn?t have pictured them changing each others? lives. Miss B likes to tell people she?s a gardener. That ends the conversation with the uninteresting ones, as she puts it. If you aren?t one of those, you might get her to unspool her full title: Ruth Carol Bartholomew, Founder and Headmistress of Miss B?s Garden of Music for Budding Talents. And bud they…