A Story : A Short Story

After traveling for 3-hours, my family arrived at our beach house in Ocean City Maryland. After making a quick trip for groceries, we decided to go to bed and set alarm clocks for early in the morning. After a good nights sleep, I woke up to the pleasant smell of bacon and eggs. After feasting on a delightful breakfast, my brothers and I began to get ready for the beach. We went down the creaky wooden stairs of our beach house and unlocked the storage room located beneath the home. I decided to carry both of the floral umbrellas while my brothers took the portable beach chairs. After grabbing all of our gear, we headed back up the weathered stairs and towards the distant sand dunes. As we approached the entrance of the sand dunes, the satisfying sounds of the ocean's waves started to become closer and closer. Once we traveled closer, the vivid orange sun began to ascend from the deep sea. At this early point in the morning, the sand walkway enclosed by dunes, hadn't heated up from the sun, so the sand had a soothing feeling of cool sand between each toe. Upon reaching the shore, we noticed that not many beachgoers had set up their

She was a long-legged, curvy girl, but she knew how to move quietly. She pulled her scarf up over her face, and stepped out into the blinding sunlight, the heat from the sand warming up the bottom of her shoes. She kept all except her eyes and hands covered, and walked swiftly through the sandy hills of the Sahara Desert. She wasn't easy to notice, wearing robes the same color as the thin grains of sand beneath her feet. From above, or far away, you would just see her movement as the sand being blown in the wind.

  Clarke pushed the cold dirt out from against a tree and laid down. She decided it was comfortable enough to sleep in but far to cold. She gathered twigs and leaves. She threw the twigs and leaves on her for a blanket. When all this was done the sun had already set and the night was getting colder. Winter is definitely coming soon. She sighed and laid her head back. Soon enough she was in her terrible dream once again.

Maya shivered. No, more like trembled. She was soaked. With cold water. Freezing cold water. And the wind blew, snow drifted down. In an almost serene way. If only Maya was in the mood to appreciate it.

directions. This place knew no night. It was always day and the sun, which loomed over the

The air was sharp and chilly when he stepped outside, just as he expected it to be in November. He had outgrown his jacket from last year and his father had told him that he couldn't afford another one, so to make up for it Cody wore not one, but two hoodies over top of his only winter sweater. He was uncomfortable and his arms felt stiff, but at least he didn't feel much of the cold.

When I first walked on the powder like sand, I knew that I had entered more than just a beach. The bright, blue sky reached down through the glass-like water. The waves came crashing into the shore causing havoc, yet leaving silently as if nothing had ever happened. People of all kinds were walking down and back the shoreline with light hearted smiles

Flurries of snow whirled around me—melting on the pavement the instant they made contact. My hands trembled as I struggled to find some source of warmth, shoving shaky fingers into knitted gloves. I adjusted the purple wool scarf that snaked around my neck, concealing the black and blue contusions on my skin. I wrapped my pea coat tighter around my body and exhaled, watching a cloud of hot breath escape my chattering teeth.

Already the air felt cooler. It had been one sweltering day and Samuel didn't want to speak more of it. His clothes were covered in a thin layer of dust, his feet were close to blistering in his boots, and his body ached like crazy.

After passing the mile long driveway, which we know as the halfway milestone for this particular street, we noticed that unfortunately the car had not let up in its pursuit. I caught Ellie’s gaze, speaking without words. In that moment, we had made a decision. A few hundred yards away, we knew there was a concealed woodland entry where we could temporarily shelter

She looked up into the sunlight, trying to see the top of the cliff that she somehow had to get up onto. Stretching out her hands, she called the wind to her. It came willingly, smiling to herself as she felt the familiar breeze wisp through her fingertips. Closing her eyes, she called more of it. The wind started to run around her, making her hair whip into her face.

There was still the cold. The warmth only oozed from her forehead, but, then again, she couldn't feel a good bit of her body. She had no idea how much heat she would be feeling otherwise.

As she stepped outside, the temperature difference made her shudder. It was sweating hot inside in the building. Under the yellow light of a nearby street lamp, each snowflake appeared to be dancing its way down from the sky. She zipped up her winter jacket and wrapped her scarf around her neck and started slowly walking towards home.

The ground felt peculiarly still after standing the shifting, whipping blizzard and wading through the snow. The sweltering heat prickled his skin with a pleasant buzz and the deep breath he took warmed his lungs. Once the half-drawn bamboo screen dropped behind them, Su Zhe reached for the ties of his cloak the same time his own hands came up.

It was the trickling of cold wind across my arm that had woken me up. Shivering, I pulled the blanket up higher to cover my left-out shoulder; the warmth the blanket brought spread across my body at its own slow pace and I sighed. Did I leave the window open? It’s so cold in here.