Creative Writing: Moving Away

“It’s not fair how she’s dead, she is always with us. Dad was never here before she left.”

"Dad wants me to stay here and live with him. Is that okay?" my son asked. "He's promised me all kinds of "neat stuff" and I can get to know my step family better.

“I guess we will need a bed,” she commented “we can 't expect anything from her.” She mumbled under her breath.

I play football here at ULM and we have been in our fall camp for the last 23 days. It is a mental, physical, and emotional strain and tensions are running high. One day early on in camp we were out in the blistering heat practicing. We were almost finished when we called a screen pass and I was going to be the main blocker for the play and if I messed up it wouldn't work. Then as soon as the ball was snapped I stepped with the wrong foot first. This slowed me down and the defender was able to clobber our receiver behind the line of scrimmage. My position coach, Coach Clark, immediately ran over yelling, "What are you doing? Where is the direction you can't lose your man on that play?" I knew what I had done wrong, "I can't let him get up the

"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.

“Oh my goodness, I promise, definitely! And I’m going to miss you so much too. Maybe you can come and stay with us? What do you think your father would

“You are the only child your dad and I have and ever will have,” his mom says.

“Well comfortable or not, this will be your home for the remainder of the initiation. What, you didn’t think I’d just let you all into my family without having a little fun with you first?”

“We are going to the U.S. to check the apartment and we are going to get you school supplies for the school and some clothes because you don't have a lot of clothes.”

“From what you’ve told me, you did the same thing with your dad,” said Robbie, “and you were only twelve when your mom died in that house fire. You were practically a wife until he moved into that nursin home last year. Heck, ya keep his house as a shrine. Never wanna change a thing in this

"Sorry but we have to be quiet and I don't want you to scream from me startling you. Listen we have to get out of here. It isn't safe for you to be out in the open. No questions right now lets just get to safety." He grabbed my wrist tightly and we began to run again.

“It is not that bad, wouldn’t it be fun living with your cousins? They could be like your brother and sister!”

“There was a boy who ran in here who I followed,” I said impatiently. “That-that thing got to him first. I don’t know what happened to him.”

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

¨There's nowhere else to take shelter, we've been walking for 10 minutes and haven't found anything besides this...¨, Julia murmured with a defeated look haunting her features.