What Happened

Imagine a world where you can erase anything that makes you feel regret, discomfort, anguish and so on. Sounds pretty great, yes? Never Happened (2015), an eight-minute short film directed by Mark Slutsky, presents this seemingly brilliant idea as a moral quandary for viewers. This low-budget science-fiction short infuses a frills-free indie aesthetic with a larger, futuristic concept to create a dark and unsettling story about the limitless bounds of future technology. This Canadian speculative…

Imagine a baseball tee falling on your head. Can you picture it? Well, that happened to me. When that baseball tee fell on my head, it hurt, and it wasn't easy to deal with, but I persevered and got through it. So how it happened was, I was 5 or 6 years old, my whole family was outside, and I went into the shed. Our shed has a lot of stuff in it, and the baseball tee was on a shelf in the shed. Well I'm 5 years old so I can't reach up there, so I stand on the edge of a bin underneath the…

During the mission on Rahkat horrible things happened to Jesuit Emilio Sandoz. Things happened that one couldn't imagine happening to themselves. On the Mission everything was fine until Emilio was sold to Hlavin Kitheri a poet who did a foul repulsive action to Emilio, he raped him. In Naples: June 2060 sitting with Emilio so they can get the truth about the mission to Rahkat jesuits started to believe that Emilio started to turn to prostitution saying things like “ He loved God but found rough…

to learn about who was involved, where it was, when it was, what it was, why it happened, and the effects. Who & What Obviously, this is the Boston Tea Party! At the Boston tea party 150 people boarded the ships. None of which were women. They were all men and boys dressed as Mohawk indians so that they could go undercover. Men didn’t think the women were strong enough to haul the crates over the edge, but the men didn’t know what the women were capable of. They probably thought that…

It happened to me Imagine one morning you wake up unable to move. Your arms and legs heavy as if buried in concrete with only your head sticking out Still able to breathe, think, feel the inside of your body, your mind stuck in a groove Disbelief changes places with the realisation that something is seriously wrong Your tears escape from the tomb traveling until they meet your pillow leaving you transmove That happened to me Imagine being a daughter, a sister, a wife, a mother, a manager, an…

Kids aren't the smartest. Looking back on things when I was younger has made me realize that kids don’t really thing when they do things. One of the things that happened to me was when I was trying to get clothes out of a dresser about 2 feet taller than I was. After failing I learned that I should think more about something rather than jumping straight into an idea. It was back when I was in 4th grade at night right before bed. After a long day of playing around at school, finishing my…

each other about the past few days that they weren't together. Rainsford did not mention what happened with Zaroff. When they got to the shore the boat was sitting where Rainsford brought himself to shore when he fell of the boat. He was greeted by all the crew on the boat. “Where have you been for the past few days,” said one “did you jump off the boat to kill yourself.” “No.” said Rainsford. “Then what happened” said another. “ I fell off the boat when i heard a noise and dropped my pipe…

Senior Literature and Comprehension 13, November 2017 Sometimes the truth about what has happened in the past is the hardest thing most people can do , which is the case in the story “232-9979” written by Carol Edelstein. In the beginning of the story the readers are introduced to the narrator, who questions her decision to call a character who we later find out is Elly Henkins. She calls to tell about what happened 3 years ago on December 19th which involved the narrator and Elly Henkin’s…

reader decide for themselves what really happened in that lifeboat. In addition, the concept of the reader deciding fits in with a repeating theme in the novel, story-telling. The definition of telling a "good story" is telling a story that really makes the reader have to feel or think about something. This story undoubtedly accomplishes that by the end of the novel, and the reader is so conflicted about what actually happened that they forget none of it actually happened. So, which story is the…

What is Real Ever since I was younger, I knew my brother’s reality was different from mine. As I got older I listened to people tell stories of events I was there for and I realized they just remembered them differently. My best friend’s nickname is Noodle. She got it the day we first met, but no one quite remembers how she got that nickname. My friend Brianna insists that she gave it to her. I am fairly sure my friend gave it to herself, because she has a common name and three other people in…