Epekt/421 Short Stories

It was a rainy day in Little Rock, Arkansas. Madison, 13, sat in her room for most of the day. Her mom, Amanda, came in her room and said she’s going to the store and wanted to know if she wants to go. Since it was a boring rainy day she agreed. They got in the van and went on their way. They arrived at walmart , and started to get their groceries. Madison passed by the jewelry and scarves then saw something. It looked fuzzy, so what 13 year old wouldn’t be interested by that? She looked and it was a rabbit’s foot. She didn’t know too much about the superstition, she just knew it was supposed to bring good luck and sort of believed it but only really wanted it because it matched her backpack and it was fuzzy. She told her mom that she wanted

It was early in the morning: Ruby left the tent, bleary eyed, and made his way through the field. Unbound by the decaying fence, the cows had strayed to the far end of the clearing. Ruby hopped the fence and began towards them; knowing the ritual, they stayed put.

A California man offered a woman a ride to Wells Fargo and she accepted, not knowing what was about to be done to her.

"Now your going crazy!" he says to her. "Quit laughing at me or I'll make you go crazy" while pulling on his ear tightly. "Ow Ow.... sorry I wont do it agian. "Oh, yeah I forgot I bought some ornamets to decorate the cave". "Wow that great but, when did you get into decorating things? she asked. "Well, I acturally got it for you, but I thought you might use it to decorate the cave". "Oh well thanks, but I think the cave beautifull as it is. "Yeah, your right", he replied. Time passed quikly and it was almost sunset so they decided to go back home for dinner. "Your comeing to my house to eat dinner right?" "Actrually I'm planning on heading back to my house". The packed there things and headed back home on a trail they mayed but Sarah felt like there was someone watching beacuse of all the noise there was comeing from the bushes. "Hey, Grey I think theres someone following us" Sarah says. "No its just windy". "Well, it became windy all of a sudden and kinda dark." "Umm...yeah your right." Suddenly the wind blew harder, and a small rock flew and hit Sarah in the back. As Sarah turned there the ghost was standing behind the tree. Sarah was fritend "G...GR...GREY WHATS THAT!" "Whats what, I dont see anything."replying to Sarah in a confused

Trent James was sitting on his bed reading a book. “Trent! Go buy a loaf of bread and a jug of milk.” “Here’s $.50 to get you and your sister some candy.” Trent went to his cooking mother and got the money, then left for the grocery store. Trent was walking down to the local supermarket, which was one block from his house when he heard a squealing animal. It was near, yet distant. He looked over to the playground and started walking to it. He heard the crying sound again. He looked under the slide and saw a puppy crying. He scooped it up and looked for a collar. He didn’t see one. Trent then carried the dog home. “Mom. I found a dog”, Trent said. “A dog?”,Trent’s Mom said. “Yes, a dog.”,Trent said again.

Sometimes, you have to play dirty to achieve your goals, like in this story about a young police officer.

While listening to the StoryCorps stories, three of the five that I chose to focus on all have something in common. Each story depicts in some sort of way that hard work goes a long way in life. The stories I listen to were, “Anytime they had a stunt to do with a black actor, they would paint these white guys in blackface.” “The way that I look at my job as a vendor, I am a professional athlete.” and “All of a sudden Dr. King drove down the street.” These three stories showed that when you work hard, good things come to you. The “black actors” story talked about two men who wanted to become stuntmen for real actors. These two men were rejected from many films but continued practicing in parks, and on the streets. They would dive off park bleachers

The early morning Sun had rose above the sea, the waves crashed and the gulls were screeching loudly, along with some other birds on Nassau. Aria had awoken up with a splitting headache, and the birds screeching above her did not help. She grabbed her head and grumbled. She noticed she was sleeping on a low palm tree that looked like it was about to fall over, she sighed and sat up on her palm tree and saw Kidd sleeping on a tree beside hers, she chuckled. Aria knew Kidd was different in his...well actually...her way. Kidd was actually a woman dressed up like a man. Mary Read was her name. Which Aria and Mary were two women in a man's world. Which Mary decided to dress as a man, at first she fooled everyone, but Aria. Afterwards the two became friends and they were sisters in their Order.

Introduction In this essay, the use of a resonant motif in a number of manifestations will be discussed. The particular resonant motif is restoration from danger posed by a villain. This theme has been used in a number of literary works ranging from religious stories of ancient times; such as the story of Jonah and the Whale to folk tales like Little Red Riding Hood and to contemporary popular culture like movies and films. In particular, some of such tales will be brought into context in an effort to explain how they have been adapted in popular culture over the years.

Billy trained them for a year and while they were hunting they caught a mountain lion in a tree. The lion leaped for Billy but Old Dan and Little Ann rammed him away, while they rammed the lion Old Dan got cut up a bunch. After the fight, Billy rushed home and took care of the wounds whilst sewing his skin together Old Dan died in his lap. Billy buried him where you could see all of the forest. The next day Little Ann wouldn’t eat or drink and wasn’t even moving. When they weren’t looking Little Ann carried herself with the last of her strength to Old Dan’s grave. Her soul left her body, and Billy buried Little Ann beside Old Dan. Days passed and when Billy visited them a red fern had grown on top of them, he was so angry he pulled out his knife and was about to cut it down. He looked at the fern and remembered the legend his grandma had told him and his sisters, “ A boy and a girl were out in the forest and a blizzard started, they froze to death and a few days later a red fern shaped as a rainbow covered them.” The same thing happened to Old Dan and Little

Olivia teleported away with a “Good luck,” and left Chloe standing by herself. Impatiently tapping her foot, Chloe glanced around waiting for Flynn. Out of nowhere, six people appeared: Flynn, Tony Stark, the Hulk, Black Widow, Captain America, and Thor. Chloe put her hand over her heart. This world was so overwhelmingly amazing; there were surprises every second of the day. Now was not the time for such foolish thoughts however. She was about to enjoy the company of some of the best people alive: her boyfriend and most of the Avengers.

At 12:00 pm I went down to see a huge animal fight . But when I got there, there were only a snake and a crow fighting. I ran over there and cut the head off the snake. In return the crow flew me all the way home. When I got there, the parrot gave me a very small package. The crow said “don’t open it yet.” When I was going to my father's I opened the package and a giant castle popped out of it. The castle was called McClellan's castle. In there were some giants and two lovely maids. But the giants thought they were the king. But I walked over there and said “I’m the king and you will obey what I say, got it.” “Yes master.” whispered the giants. After two years of living at the castle I got really bored. So I had the best idea. “I’m going to

In the world of baking appoints two out of many great leaders by the names of Gaston Lenotre (age 88) and Lionel Poilane (age 57). Chef Lenotre and Chef Poilane like many others were born into a family of Chefs. Although they were apart of great new methods of pastry cooking, it is also understood that a team of other professional cooks/chefs helped to make dreams of these two chefs come true. These were indeed two true legends that helped shape the life of pastry then and now. As the research goes on the interesting points of these men will be revealed (in a good way). The ages mentioned prior to, are the ages that they had lived to see and within that time frame were able to open the eyes of upcoming pastry professionals, also even to their

Sally has a cow, Sally's cow is called Silly. Silly is scrumptious. Sally knows this because she is a vampire. She drinks silly's blood every night. Sally loves Silly. One night Sally went to drink blood from Silly to get enough strength to go find the fantasy forest and stop the dark wolves from ending the world. Silly saw her and smashed her with her tail. Sally was astonished. How could Silly do this to her! So while Silly was in a deep sleep Sally crept up slowly, slowly, until she was in bite’s length of her. Solly the sheep jumped out of nowhere, and started screaming! Sally swooped out of the way and both Silly and Solly started biting at her. Sally flew, ashamed and hungry, as far away as she could until she was taken by a rabid, hunter wolf..”

Once upon a time there lived a girl named red riding hood her grandpa asked her to take something to the library for him on her bike and she said yes so he gave her what he needed her to deliver and she was on her way to the library when she spotted friend brianna playing in the woods with her brother so she got off the bike and went to her friend and said can I play with y'all and she said yes so red started playing with them by the time she realized that she was supposed to take the things to the library it was already midnight so she just walked home and apologized to her grandpa and he said it’s all right you can do it tomorrow so red went to her room and played her playstation 4 and the next day she was off to take the things to the library when she sall a wolf so she pulled out her “bb gun” and shoot it in the head 15 times before it fell to the ground when it fell to the ground she picked it up and took it back home so they could fri it on there grill at home when she got done frying it she ate the whole thing bones and all after she finished she went to the library when she got back home her grandpa said where did you go and she said I went to the library with the things you told me to take and he said I didn't tell you to go to the library I told you to go to simmitary and put the basket beside your mom's grave because that was her favorite basket to take on picnic when she was younger but it is ok I