It Was The Dead Of Night

We were going on a family trip that I had been dying to go on. My parents finally agreed, so we were going to Canada. I was humming a happy tune until my mother told me to take off my seatbelt and move next to the door. I looked around to see we were driving on a curved cliff. I did not know what was happening, but I obediently did what

I was having the time of my life with my friends at a bike rally in New Port Richey. We all decided to leave and go to my house for a pool party. Everyone got into their cars and off we went. I have the music blaring and Erik and I are signing every song. All of a sudden a silver lift truck blow through a stop sign right in front of me. It was happening way to fast for me to do anything but slam on the breaks. The truck ran over the hood of my dinky Hyundai Elantra. Erik was sitting in the passenger seat with the seatbelt not buckled and a beer in is hand. The beer spelt all over the car.

It’s the middle of the night. You’re hungry. You go to the kitchen and turn on the light. Suddenly, you step on something crunchy. You bend down to take a look. It is a cockroach! In New York City, in all homes and buildings, cockroaches abound. Just like its human residents, New York City 's roaches are among the most diverse in the world. Cockroaches have been around for millions of years, evolving into some of the most adaptable pests on Earth. And no matter how hard exterminators try, the stubborn cockroaches don’t seem to die off. In fact, as time progresses, different species of cockroaches will be discovered and they will become more adaptable to the New York climate and also resistant to chemical poisons. It is safe to say, we are

It was a Wednesday night during the summer when something happened to me that I will never forget. My volleyball team was in Hutchinson for a summer league. I was not able to play because I have Rheumatoid Arthritis so I went to support them. I was ecstatic because we had gone undefeated that night. While they were playing, storms were building up just outside of Hutch. When I walked out to my truck, I noticed that the storms had come closer and closer. Also while I was walking, it started to lightly sprinkle. When I left the Salthawk Activity Center, it started to downpour. Little did I know, my night was about to be turned upside down.

It was a hot summer day on Lake Logan Martin, perfect for taking out the jet skis with my best friend Jake. We were showing off and trying to impress some hot girls on a pontoon when all the sudden, Jakes jet ski went flying upside down through the air like a drunk pelican. Before I knew it, all I could see was the bright orange and yellow colors of his jet ski zooming by my head, and Jake hit the water head first causing water to splash all over my face. I rushed over to where his jet ski landed and I was sure he was dead. I dove into the lake and grabbed him, he felt lifeless as I drug him to the surface. A patrol boat sped up to us and helped pull him on the boat. Thankfully he just suffered from a broken clavicle and a broken arm but it

I wake up and I am not entirely sure where I am at. I am laying in a bed and rolling around as someone is pushing me. The door infront of me opens manually and I am pushed through the door still not knowing what is going on. I have a sling on my arm, but I cannot feel it at all. My right arm is numb from the shoulder down, but as I am rolled into my room I see my mother, father, and grandma sitting and waiting on me. I remember now; I just came out of shoulder surgery that could possibly make or break my baseball career. The doctor comes in and explained what happened in the operating room, and explains that everything went very well. He had no complications and that after I get food in my system that I could leave. Everything was happening

My heart was throbbing, heavily and I could feel my body shutting down, my vision was getting hazy. And then suddenly I heard the sirens of the ambulance and two paramedics got down to our rescue as I fell unconscious.

I mouth , and my throat that was hurting like I had a flue, were dried out to a point where I was not able to squeeze out any sound out of myself whatsoever. A lady in a white uniform that I guessed was a nurse came into my room and poured some water into my mouth. My mouth absorbed all of the water that she gave me like a sponge. Shortly after, I got a salty/cheesy taste in my mouth. It was weird. My guess was that my mouth was covered with a thin envelope made out of dry blood. Moments later, my dad came into my room with a phone next to his ear and he was followed by a doctor. After drinking a little bit more water, and fulfilling every single hypertonic cell in my mouth and my trachea with water. My throat was moist enough for me to ask one thing that bothered me the most at that moment. “What happened to me?”. To be completely honest with you, the story that my Mom told me was quite funny to me, unlike the consequences. Basically I decided to climb a tree and when I was 6-7 feet above the ground, the stick that I was holding on to, broke, and that caused me to fall down and land neck first on a big rock. As I said the consequences were not so exciting. That emergency landing that I performed that day caused multiple fractures in my upper vertebrates and a broken rib that jammed one

Not long after starting my freshman year of high school, my brother and I decided to go fishing because he had recently got his license and eager to hit the road. My brother decided to take us to a new spot that I was unfamiliar with, but after a couple hours became I became impatient and bored. So I decided to go towards the center of the river to cool myself down from the heat, little did I remember that there was downpour the night before so the currents were intense and powerful.

Baseball season was on the horizon and I needed to replace my bag so we drove to Academy. On the way to Academy I felt really tired but who doesn't when their sick. I started to walk into Academy and made it fifteen yards before everything went dark. I woke up being rushed into the ER hearing a lot of unfamiliar voices and the feeling of blood coming out of the side of my head. I was told that I had a seizure, shortly after that a familiar voice came in it was my grandma and behind her my mom and dad. I a matter of hours I had the situation explained and 8 staples in my head. Once moved to a regular room I was able to wash the blood out of my hair and take a shower.

On a fall night around 3:00A.M. my friend and I were just getting on campus from a night out. We got back to my room and realized that it was really hot because the heat was on, so we decided to put on our bathing suits and go outside. After venturing outside into the cold my friend had the “great” idea to go for a swim in the fountain. Of course I was the first to jump into the icy water and I dragged my friend in shortly after. It was so cold, we instantly jumped out but then all of a

This summer I’ve experienced something unusual and I loved it! I worked at a waterpark as a lifeguard but I wasn’t at the places in the park where you need to rescue people so it was pretty relax, I was outside while talking with the clients. One day, this little 8-year-old girl fainted in her mother’s arms. Her mother was in chock and screaming: ‘’Do something!! I think she’s convulsing!!’’ She was unconscious for let’s say 40 seconds and then she came back and was normal. She was just dehydrated and sleepy because of the extreme heat. It was for me a beautiful experience because it was my first ‘’rescuing’’ and it just went so quickly but there was nothing I could’ve done that I didn’t do!

December 15, 2015, 8:43 pm. I was on my way to get a white elephant gift for the Christmas party I had the next day. As I approached the green light, I quickly decided to go into the left turn lane to go a different route. As I sat at the red light, I fiddled with the worn away part of my steering wheel partly out of boredom and partly from being nervous about the final I had the next morning. I looked around blatantly not knowing that in the next couple of seconds, my life was going to change. I looked in the rear view mirror at the blurry truck

One day we passed over a German U-boat, it had shot us and the boat had begun to tilt causing everyone to slide. My family and I had decided to jump, and as we were in mid-air a rescue boat hit me and ended up breaking my leg. The Captain had jumped into the water to save me. He and I were on a long adventure attempting to find our way home, it took a few weeks but in the end it was all okay. During the adventure the main thing we were doing was finding wreckage we could use to build a small

“Get ready for pain, get ready for pain” that's all that was going through my head as my car and I were doing 360’s all over highway 395 heading either straight for the bottom of a river or straight into trees. The last I remember in this moment was taking a curve and seeing another car's headlights flooding my eyes as it hurtled towards me in my lane. Of course my initial instinct was to slam on my brakes to stop myself from colliding with this car, little did I know at the time you should not hit your brakes to quickly if it's been raining. After making this mistake I started to hydroplane and lose control of my black Cadillac, ,my rear end started fishtailing all over the slick road. That's when the other car realized what was happening and jerked back to their lane with seconds to spare. What had felt like eternity when my car finally stopped spinning, I opened my eyes to realize I was untouched and unhurt. I carefully put my car