Creative Writing: Sparrow's Ridge Trail

“… I escaped to the open county and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel.”

“Fine, my lady. A non-rumour has been heard of: an assassin is prowling the Darkland Kingdom,” Butch replied. His voice was ragged, jagged, as if it was a jigsaw puzzle ready to be fixed.

The man said, “I was following you around, because we didn’t know where we were going. We thought you looked like you knew where you were going. I didn’t mean to scare. Every time I started to approach you to ask you for help, you ran away.”

"No, that place is Hazzard, Georgia. I live in a little town in southeastern Kentucky."

“ I am so excited to go to Peru and see the sights. Especially the Rainbow Mountain. “ said Hailey the youngest of the of the family

“A. There was a man that came there that he had trouble with. I don't know who the man was.

“The patrol officer and I talked for a while and then he strangely hurried of. He thought that i didn’t see him but I did but wasn’t worried. No one would have thought I came east. At least I thought.”said Bob

“I don’t think we’ll find many berries to pick. There is still a lot of snow on the ground.”

As I was going up 4th Street, I saw a lot of men under guard and I was hurrying on to overtake them to see what the trouble was [when] I met a woman who hailed me and commenced conversation. She asked if I knew who those men were. I told her I did not but presumed they were bounty jumpers and they were taking them to some safe place. She said if I had started to run away, they would not take me

In our brochure, the Mount Willard trail’s level read moderate and Jason glanced up from the page and offered a warning.

“ ‘All right, friend,’ he said, standing about fifteen feet away, trembling, ‘you just wait, you ain’t heard the last of me yet,’ and he turned and went off down the quiet street” (O’Connor 155).

Ultimately it was decided that Thorin’s appearance and Gemma’s return from the dead should not be linked. Thorin would be passed off as a John Doe, whose case would be handled personally by Parker, allowing him to cover up any inconsistencies as he saw fit and validate Thorin’s identity. Gemma’s cover story would have to be more elaborate. The FBI had paid for her funeral, and would be expecting a pretty fantastic reason for their wasted money. After tossing around a few ideas, it was decided that they would play to Gemma’s past and her current mental condition. She’d already lied to the doctors, so they’d work off of that. Following the explosion at the warehouse, they would say, Gemma had been attacked by two of the terrorists, but had escaped. Suffering a mental break and a bought of paranoia, though somewhat founded, she had come to believe that the terrorists were still after her, and had gone into hiding, with the help of Parker. She was only returning now that the cell had been captured. It seemed preposterous to Gemma, but Parker had been very convincing when he’d described the story to her, and they really had no other scenarios. He’d promised that he’d pull some strings and convince the higher-ups that, if anything, she deserved compensation for the trauma and their mismanagement of her original

Well, here he was; he had had the accident; he was alone; and he had saved himself. Those old-timers were a little womanish, some of them, he thought” (London 604). An example of this man’s foolish behavior which is directly related to the theme can be found in this quote: “That man from Sulphur Creek had spoken the truth when telling how old it sometimes got in the country. And he had laughed at him at the time!” (London 602).

“Where did he go?” the Police Officer snarled. I could hear the footsteps of the police men, it sounded like a buffalo stampede.

“Let’s get going. There is a short hike before we get to the base of the mountain.”