The Haunted

Visual details can help a writer shed a new light on an ordinary place or shine light on a place with unique characteristics. In Haunted Natchez by Courtney Taylor and Pastures of Plenty by Jordan Breal two small towns are described by their residents. Jordan Breal depicts how the town of Round Top may be an antique empire for a few weeks of the year, but its hidden beauty is the time when people are not flocking here for deals and bargains. Her literary techniques contrast the reality of the…

not the real science nor did he know how it worked. Pseudoscience for Sagan got in the way of people understanding real science. He tries to give examples of what he thinks is general understanding of science. In the first chapter of The Demon-Haunted World, portrays how people have now become more scientifically illiterate during the twentieth century which lead to an entirely ignorant society. For Sagan pseudoscience…

Kayla’s laughter rang out in the darkness as we raced back to the house. We always spent Halloween pranking the houses around the neighborhood, but this year we went a little extreme. It was our last year before college and we were both moving out of state come fall. So we decided to have a little fun this Halloween and prank every house in the neighborhood, including our own so it wouldn’t be obvious we were the ones who did it. We were in the middle of the last house on the street when…

A loud knock resounded through the house. “It’s Herbet!” she screamed. “It’s Herbert!” Every seconds, the knock on the door is getting harder, deeper, and louder as if it is telling Mrs. White to open the door and welcome his own son. “Please! Please don’t let it in! Please!” Mr. White cried. “Do not act like you what is behind that door! It’s just your son, there is nothing out there rather than Herbet, and there is also nothing to be afraid of.” She walks towards the door, mumbles.…

There are only two reasons anyone from the village seeks the heart of the forest. Either they are afraid of death, or they've come to seek it. There in the darkness is clearing filled with light, no matter the weather of the world beyond. There in the bright clearing is a small hut, its thatched roof laced with flowers in ever bloom. There in the hut is a girl whose heart-shaped face is streaked with ash. Three harsh lines that run wild down the center of her otherwise delicate demeanor. On the…

KILLER CLOWNS One halloween year there was a group of friends that had went to a halloween party. Richard & Osvaldo decided to go in the haunted house but Areli didn’t want to go in because she was sacred. They kept telling her all of it was fake and that “It would be fun”. She ended up saying yes. They let her go in the middle since she was the only girl. Osvaldo walked slowly and held on to Richards shirt as he walked ahead. Suddenly a clown popped out and scared Areli. She started to scream…

The swollen door would not budge and a part of me liked it that way. It was eight in the morning and I found it hard to believe that only twelve hours ago, my house sat four feet under water. Super storm Sandy swallowed my house whole and she only left me some crumbs. Everything I owned floated away. Crack! My front door was broken down and I giggled. That giggle grew into laughter, then into a sob and finally I broke down. My house and all of my belongings drifted out to sea with the receding…

poem “A Haunted Palace” tells the story of a delightful palace that is seen described so beautifully by passer-bys, but sadly this does not last as the palace is now being seen as being taken over by these ugly creatures. In the poem “A Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allan Poe, emotions from delight to terror and the dimness of a once beautiful memory are expressed throughout the writing through the usage of alliteration, symbolism, mood and imagery. In the first stanza of Poe’s poem, “A Haunted…

I open the door to my room, and immediately drop my bag in the corner by the door. I sit down at my desk, and turn to page 37 in my textbook. I begin reading about the Aztecs, but it doesn’t stick. I close my textbook, and go downstairs to the kitchen. I struggle trying to find where the snacks are, but finally find them in the 2nd cabinet. In my old house, they were in the top cabinet, but I guess I’ll just have to get used to it. I grab a bowl of chips, and sit at the island staring at the…

A Haunted High School Chaffey High School traces its root back to 1882 when George Chaffey,along with his brother William purchase land the empty and isolated park,Jazzy was always frightened because she could hear footsteps getting closer and closer each time.After the footsteps stop,she hears someone breathing right behind her and when Jazzy turns around nothing was behind her,a swing moving by itself.So Jazzy decides to call Trevor so he come with her so she wouldn't get scared alone in…