“I don’t think she knows her name.” I eyed my daughter. She was crawling along the kitchen floor, and was undoubtedly scouting the kitchen for something small and chokable to put in her month as she was prone to doing these days. She reached out a hand, extending her pudgy fingers towards the family dog’s tail. “Rilee!” I yelled, scrambling before she got a hold of the elderly dog, but she didn’t acknowledge my call. “No, doggie for you.” I scooped the 14-month-old into my arms after prying her fingers from the poor dog’s fur. I plopped her into her highchair and grabbed her dinner. “She knows her name! Don’t you Rilee?” My mom crooned. She looked at Rilee and gave her a smile. She called out her name several times. With each “Rilee,” her voice pitched to a different octave and volume, and finally Rilee looked at her. “See! She knows it!” I didn’t answer. It had seemed like she had responded only because of the ongoing noise and the silly voice she had used, but I kept my lips sealed. “She definitely knows her name.” This time, when she said it, she looked at me reassuringly. I nodded my head. After all, she did raise nine children herself, but I still couldn’t shake the feelings of doubt. This scene plays in my head in an endless loop. The darkness of my bedroom is cut only by the light from my phone as I read endless articles. The words are pounded into my head as I Not responding to one’s name, little to no eye contact, no shared enjoyment, no pointing,
I had just finished reading her a bedtime story and I was tucking her in with a goodnight kiss when she yawned and asked, “You'll always be my mommy, right?”, “Of course,” I said”, “Good. I'd miss you if you weren't”, “You've been my mommy for a long time.”, “Yup, your whole life,” I replied. “All my life,” she whispered into her pillow. Her eyes had slowly closed shut, her breathing deepened, and she fell asleep while I sat next to her, thinking kids really do say the darndest things. I didn't think much about it though, it had just been an off the cuff remark by a child with an active imagination. The same child who, a few weeks before, had told me that rainbows are unicorn slides, and clouds are their magical trampolines.
Not the best way to start a story because it happens to everyone, but my birth was actually not like usual ones. From what I have been told, it was that there was a lot of screaming and cursing.The chaos was not about me, not yet, but it was what was going on immediately after I came into this world.
The bleak, white landscape appeared to continue on forever as Ada trudged up the mountain side. She had heard the gunshots pierce through the icy air and immediately began running towards their origin.
In the beginning, there was only darkness. For many years this darkness remained. There were no stars, no sun, and no earth. But one day something very special happened. The sun and a star were made. The Sun was called by the name of Fred and the star was referred to as Jacky. Fred and Jacky loved the space they had together for millions of years but this love did not last. Jacky became lonely and wished to find more stars like her. Fred was devastated to see her in so much distress. So he gave a strand of his sunlight to Jacky. Jacky was very thankful that Fred had done this. The strand of light Fred gave to jacky made thousands of stars. Both Jacky and Fred were very happy once again. Fred and Jacky started to drift apart. This upset Fred because he didn't have any other friends. Jacky didn't notice because she was too busy hanging out with her new friends. Fred became depressed and started to lose his light. One day a huge meteor came from out of nowhere. This huge meteor was named Terra. Terra was an oddball because she was very plain and was not as beautiful as the stars. The stars rejected Terra. Terra was really sad for a long time. Until one day she bumped into the sun. The sun had seen nothing like Terra in his life and he thought she was the most beautiful thing in the whole universe. Terra and Fred became really close friends and they both started to fall in love. Fred asked Terra if she would marry him. They had a love that filled the universe with light. Terra and Fred decided they wanted to have kids. Their plan for children brought them a big surprise. They had octuplets planets. These planets were much smaller than the stars and they worshipped their parents and revolved their life around their dad. Terra and Fred waited three more months until they had their ninth planet. This planet they named Earth and she was special. The other planets became jealous because the parents treated her with more delicacy and showered her with more love. Earth was bullied for a long time by her siblings. The Earth started to become extremely wary of her life and felt all alone. Fred and Terra decided they should help and gave her a friend. This new friend named Moon would become her eternal
"I can't breathe," my friend whispered, blinking tears from her glossy eyes. I clenched my dirt ridden hands, feeling the sweat begin to streak down my forehead as I tried to find the words that could magically fix this mess. I couldn't find any.
Hey, I’m Eriona. Eriona Rios actually. My friends call me Eri though. I’m about to tell you a story that will make you, actually I don’t know what it’s going to do to you. Here goes nothing. So it was about freshman year and there was this “new boy”, all of the girls wanted him to be honest, I did too. I’m not going to use his real name so were just going to call him Tom. Tom was soooooo cute, literally fine. So I told one of my friends that I thought he was cute, and she said she agreed. So a couple days later, I decided to tell my “friend” that I liked him. And she said I should text him and stuff. About 2 days later, me and her were walking in the hallway, and she gave Tom a hug right in front of me and told me she kinda like him. Me and her didn’t speak anymore after that.
It was a loud stormy night, no one was able to sleep you were able to feel the thunder from your feet once it hit and could her the spike of electricity from the lightning. Thankfully Gracelynn’s mom had given her melatonin. She was sleeping through the whole storm, but then she heard a loud thump and woke up.
It's three in the morning. THREE in the freaking morning on a Sunday. A school night and I still can't come up with a plot for my short story.
I’m a 16 year old girl who is 6 weeks pregnant. I did not think I would ever say that. So far, my boyfriend whose name is Jayden, his mom, and my mom are the only people who knew. It was extremely difficult to tell my mom this. I was born and raised in a very Christian family who take their religion and values seriously. When I had the courage to tell my mom I was pregnant, I was not only embarrassed, but ashamed of myself. My mom was not angry at me. She was only disappointed.
It was a summer day in July, the sun was shining bright and you could see the heat waves in the air. My friends Caleb, Javon, and I were heading to the mall. We were there for five minutes when we heard someone yell “Stop!” We turned and saw it was an officer, before we knew it we were all running. Caleb was in front with me and Javon trailing. I turned to look back at the officer he was overweight and his white uniform was already sticking to his body due to him sweating. We turned a corner and went inside a bathroom. We all looked at each other and started laughing. “Why’d you run?” I asked Caleb
I could use, so I just did one on John Cusack, he’s my favorite actor.”
Casey’s eyes popped open wide. She threw the comforter off herself and hopped out of the bed, squealing. “Of course I want a present, are you kidding me? I always want presents!” she yelled as running wild down the stairs to eat breakfast. She ate and eventually got out of her pajamas and into her birthday dress that she picked out last week. Casey, her mom, and Jordan go to their grandparents and when they pulled up Casey has to focus clearly on what her grandma is holding, on the porch swing. Her eyes grew big and she unbuckles fast.
“Ouch!” Nova mumbled as she sat up holding her head. It felt like she had been hit with a baseball bat. Nova was a teenage girl with long black hair. Her skin was of a dark complexion. Her eyes were blurry because of the terrible headache she had. As she slowly gets up to examine her environs, she realizes she was in the middle of what seemed to be an abandoned circus tent. There were few rusted metal chairs and leftover rubbage. The weather-beaten tent was ridden with holes and reeked of mold. Finally, there was one thing to inspect, a rope. She walks over to the rope and pulls it out of curiosity. Due to this action, the curtain behind her rose, revealing an empty stage. Suddenly, the lights went out. When they came back on she was in the center of the tent again. The only nuance was the man standing on the stage.
June 5th 2016 3 girl gone missing in a small town in Traverse City michigan. No where to be found or clues where they could of go. I was there friends with the 3 girls Amy, Claire, Emily and , i am katie. We were all best friends grew up in the same town all went to the same elementary school. As we went into middle school we got very popular and we all meet a lot of new people and friends. But Amy, Claire , Emily and I all stayed bestfriends. I met Amy and Claire in 1st grade our families were very close and always have party ,dinners together. Amy was shy when i first met her but grew out of it she only lived with her mom and didn't have any siblings.When me and Amy were younger we would hang out everyday after she never wanted to go home.i never asked her why I she thought we were having a lot of fun. I met Claira the same year i met Amy. Claire grew up with a Mom and Dad and a younger brother Claire always dressed the best out of our little friend group ource because her family was very rich. Her family would always take us three to the coolest places. Then we met Emily in the 4th grade she was very different from us three but she became our best friend she lived with her grandparents in this very little blue house near a haunted lake.The first time we met her at school no one sat next to her so we did she was happy to met us. And that's how i met my 3 best friends . And am Katie I have a mom and dad and an older sister named Sophia she was the better child
The days before were a blur. Grief filled the air around us. The one room everyone wanted to be in, sitting next to her, supporting her, waiting for her last breath.