Creative Writing: Becoming A Hybrid

One day, cutting through the swamp, David comes across the remains of old Indian souls and discovers a skull with jewelry still buried on the bodies. As David kicks at the skull, he hears a voice and looks up to see a black man seated on a stump just looking. The man, wearing a black sash around his body, has a soot-stained face, which makes it appear as if he works in some fiery place. David soon recognizes the stranger as the devil, the black man. Twenty years later we had a family reunion with all my relatives and they started talking about the fire.

“Some people say I was lucky to survive, other will say I deserved it for the choice I made. I’m here to say I was lucky, it’s never ok to say your life isn’t worth living even at your worst you can always look forward tomorrow will come and if you put your mind to it you’ll see that anything is possible.” – Stephen McGregor Professional Paralympian

As Hunter watched as she drove away Hunter thought about how long this camp would take. He turned around and saw 3 of his best friends.

"Wake up, partners," the trail boss, James called. I sleepily looked up , shivered, and saw I was the only one not up. "Here," James said, giving me the horses' bridles and saddles. "Take these and get the horses ready. We have a long day today." I groaned in reply and set up the horses for the day's long drag. I was the horse wrangler and this was my everyday job but I still couldn't get use to the idea of waking up before the sun and working. We drove the cattle into open plains against the winter's cold wrath.

Sue froze where she stood, frozen for what must have felt like hours. “You mean, he waited all of this time to paint his masterpiece and not only did he paint it for me but – he used his life to paint it.” Sue was overwhelmed at the thought, she was the reason Mr. Behrman had gone out that night, she was the reason he had passed away. “I caused his demise, my own selfishness did this!” Sue cried. Johnsy quickly took hold of Sue’s hands and said to her: “No darling, you did just the opposite, you showed Mr. Behrman what he had been looking for, for these years. You inspired his masterpiece!” Understanding then that Mr. Behrman’s sacrifice for her, was no sacrifice at all, his dream had been fulfilled and he had continued his journey. At that

Approximately four hours into their travel, a red firework exploded in the distance and previously concealed bandits emerged from behind boulders, undergrowths and covered pits. They charged with the ferocity of a tidal wave, brandishing weapons and bellowing threats. Aloysius halted his horse, made a signal, and soldiers began to move forward.

"Sometimes you gotta let something bad happen, or else you wont know how to fix things when they go wrong later."

I remember the screams, calls for help and sounds of people slowly dying all too well, echoing through my head like police sirens. My feet hurt from running but I can deal with it knowing i'm now free from Josef Mengele. I know he will be looking for me and my twin brother but we are safe for now and that is all that matters. I lost my mother to him, he tried to see how long someone could live with out some vital organs like the brain, heart, both kidneys and so on, he took my mother's heart away.

We had to make it back home for dinner this wasn't just any regular dinner, everyone was there Steve, Two-bit, Darry, Soda -pop, Dally, and me. Well everyone except for Johnny. We got in the house and everyone had been just sitting at the table waiting for us. It's about time you got here the food's getting cold Two- bit said. As we are eating we hear this strange knock at the door. who couldn't be Steve said at this time of night it could be anybody. I got scared it might be the police trying to take me away from my brothers. Sodapop opens the door, I look and I see that is Cherry.

When Kristina and Brandon got married they decided to open a CrossFit Prevail Gym in McHenry Illinois. Brandon dressed and went downstairs to eat breakfast then headed out the door to get to the gym to coach the 5am WOD class at the gym then head to his job afterward. When Brandon left it was 4:45am Kristina lied back down and fell back to sleep. When the second alarm went off at 6:45am Kristina found a little munchkin in bed with her it was Chase. He had snuck into her room to give her morning cuddles. After morning snuggles both Kristina and Chase got up and went to wake the girls for school. Running in and jumping on his sisters Chase finally awoke them and they all headed down stairs for breakfast. While all three children ate their cereal and watch cartoons. Kristina went up to take a quick shower and dress herself to take the kiddos to school. After finishing their cereal, the three children all went upstairs to get dressed. Madison the oldest dressed herself, made herself a lunch and packed her bag for school. As Madison was finishing packing her bag Makenna came down the stairs to pack her bag. After dressing Chase Kristina came down stairs to help her children. Kristina made Makenna a lunch and packed Chase a snack for preschool. “Get your shoes on” Kristina yelled as she turned off the lights and television. By the time that everyone got out of the house and into the car

The room is filled with machines and nurses surrounding a patient. Three paintings, all of beautiful flowers line the walls of the hospital room. The machines are screaming and yelping, but the nurses just reassure us it will be alright. Olly, with his dark brown eyes and perfect brown combed over hair, and I watch as Olly’s father fight death.

As I walked through the front door to my house, I headed for my room to start my homework. About two hours later my mom called up to me, “Alex, come down and eat!”. Since the invasions have been going on, you either talked about the invasion all the time or you tried not to talk about them at all. My family and I fell into the second category. But today I decided to break the

One stormy night there was this house in the middle of the of the woods and, three boys who were about to have the night of their life. James and his friends Cameron and Francisco they were hanging out in the living room when a crash of thunder shook the house and knocked out the power and, scared all of them. The only thing could see was darkness until they remember their phones and turned on their flashlight and use it for light.

Bobby Jo, Sophia, and Lucy started walking through town and come across a backroad to the most beautiful house in town. Bobby Jo started hearing weird, creepy sounds. Bobby Jo thought she was just imagining things when she saw a face pop out of the tall trees. “Come here”. The face said quietly but loud another for only her to hear in a deep and dark sounding voice. “AAAAAGGGGHHH”, yelled bobby Jo and ran up to her friends trying to tell them what happened back there. “Tthheerre wwaasss a face tthhat jjumpped out att mee!” said bobby jo. Sophia and Lucy started laughing at bobby jo. You always come up with the funniest stories to tell bobby j.” said Lucy. “Ittt” bobby jo was about to say when the girls

Time crawled by at a snail’s pace. Poisonous chatter permeated the air, plots of vengeance bounced off the dull walls corrupting hearts. Inmates planned to abscond the upcoming torturous hours before it started. A few desks away from me a fellow classmate scratched away at his desk. Like that’s gonna help, I thought, everyone knows it’s the legs that trap you.