Charlie's Ecstasy: A Narrative Fiction

“Well then I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you seem to have found a new friend” Bryson adds. At this I look behind me to see a girl, about our age, covered in clown face paint, on our looking at her she let’s forth a high pitched giggle

The living quarters above the saloon allowed Victor Rodriguez to watch over his establishment and maintain his privacy. Seated alone at the slant-front desk, he counted the week’s receipts and sipped his whiskey. Satisfied with the total, he placed enough money in an envelope for an ordinary bank deposit and slid the rest to the side, bumping a stack of newspapers that fanned out to the edge of the desk.

"You two sleep on the plane," I said, adding, "I'm not going to Paris to sleep. We can all sleep when we're dead."

In The Ecstasy Of Influence: A Plagerism, the author Jonathan Lethem attempts to decipher the difference between getting an idea that is influenced by another’s work, and plagiarizing somebody’s work. Not only does he discuss the multiple times in history where new ideas have been derived from other works, but he also attempts to discover where the line can be drawn between influence and plagiarism. Throughout the work, the author discussed what he thinks about adopting ideas and why some people may consider something plagiarism while others may not. He argues that while some artists may consider similar ideas to be a form of plagiarism, others like himself see the sharing of ideas & being influenced and inspired by other works is what helps

Grinding the rocky soil below, the tires of my shitty blue pickup truck lurched to a stop at the forest's edge when I received my second phone call of the evening. “I shouldn't have told you to meet with me. It's not safe! They're here. Watching,” Eddy's shaky voice was filled with paranoia before trailing off.

     Ecstasy, or 3, 4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, was first synthesized and patented in 1914, by the German drug company Merck. The original purpose of the drug was to be an appetite suppressant, however in 1970 it was given to clinical depressed patients to open them up and talk about their feelings. Then in 1986, Ecstasy was determined to cause brain damage (http://faculity.washington.edu/chudler/mdma.html).

Lauren scrambled forward, but her choppy steps were no match for the deep drifts. Icy snow fell over the top piping on her boots and packed around her socks. Although her leg muscles bulked at the cold and extra weight, she forged onward, her breath hacking against the wind.

Ivan's summer took a turn for the worst when he was faced with a devastating ant infestation that almost drove him out of his own home.It all began one day when he was enjoying a cup of tea when he spotted a tiny dot crawling across the room. "I don't know what caused it, but they just started appearing everywhere," he said. Ivan would find squirming ants in the kitchen, the bathroom, and mostly everywhere in his house. He once found ants marching into his refrigerator before killing them mercilessly to prevent them from conquering his precious food stash. The worst instance was when he spotted a few of the small devils in the cup where he keeps his toothbrush. "I constantly find dead ants in our plates and clothes, and it's not fun cleaning

“Yes, Dad,” I replied, yawning because I just woke up. I grabbed the bag and headed for the sliding glass door. “Hurry up, Sam!” I yelled, waiting impatiently at the glass door.

The clock strikes 8:30AM and Charlie to gets out of bed to start their day. First, Charlie puts on their gym shoes on and heads over to the gym. While fitness and eating healthy are important to Charlie, they find time to burn those calories and hit those miles on their Fitbit. After the gym, Charlie gets ready for the day and watches the news in the background to stay current. There's never enough time in the day for everything Charlie wants to do. Charlie packs their schedule with a busy week and frees up the weekends so they can go out and enjoy all the things the city has to offer. After Charlie prepares their healthy lunch, they say goodbye to their partner and get back on the train. After a long day of classes or work, Charlie commutes

I heard about this game when I was in 8th grade. It was a very popular game but I

“We’re going at a crazy pace. We’re going to need a staycation to recover from our vacation when we get home.”

“Been here my whole life,” she said, somewhat flippantly while looking up at the sky. “In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever been anywhere else.”

It all started in 2003. There was a young boy and his mother who lived on the streets of south central Los Angeles. Every day the little boy would hide out on school days, so he wouldn’t get taken from his mother because he wasn’t in school. The next couple of days the little would always go into this house that had drugs inside of it for his mom. As he would give the drugs to his mother who was on drugs very bad she would do bad things, as the little boy would watch his mother do bad things such as running around in the streets with nothing on. The next day as the mom was found she was arrested as the boy watch his mother he cried. Later that night as the little boy had no one or nobody to go with or sleep with. As the little boy was walking he found the person he would always get the drugs from for his mom. As he walks up to the man he say ‘’hi i'm Maurice the one that got the ‘’.. As the man replies ‘’yeah yeah the one who got the drugs from me’’. As Maurice asked the man ‘’is it fine if I can stay with you till I get out my mom has been arrested. As the men replies ‘’yeah until your mom come back’’. Weeks later as Maurice mom was released from jail Maurice sitting on the couch watching TV when he heard a loud bang on the door BAM BAM BAM police open up. When Maurice heard that he took off running with a dash of speed while Maurice is running he sees his mom as he runs to her. Later that night as Maurice is back sleeping on the sidewalks he sees a dark black man in a

I jogged off down the sidewalk and then slowed to wave at some friends coming out of the mini grocery carrying bottles of soda. One of them called out and I turned partway, still jogging. “You coming tonight, man?”