Locust: A Short Story

Looking through the glass, a car zoomed past the fifteen miles per hour speed limit blasting obnoxiously loud music and laughter. The rusty blue mailbox with the dent in front was still there next to the barren oak tree. Repetitive banging started nearby and I almost fell back. Bright yellow lights were on at the attic window at the house next door. This would usually start about two to three in the morning, but by then, I would usually fall asleep. This was strange considering that the neighborhood considered that house to be vacant. It was assumed that the person who bought the house was using the house as a vacation rental house since every week, a family group or couple would move in with their suitcases and leave at the end of the week. A strange banana yellow car was parked at the front of the house next door. Maybe the owner had come to make repairs? But the question remained as to why they would make repairs in the middle of the

Two weeks passed and it happened again. My mind has been filled with endless thoughts of paranormal thoughts in this old wrecked house. This house has been empty ever since my wife was murdered. Chills and shivers ran down my spine as I stared at the portrait of my beloved. She died right in front of my eyes. I saw the gruesome murder and I couldn’t do anything to save her. The devil shouldn't have step foot into my wife. We were a happy family. A couple of months ago, my wife was expecting a child. On the day of her labor... it was a stillborn... There were a few attempts on trying to have a child again. Sudden miscarriages occurred. Ever since the miscarriages, every single night she made animal sounds in her sleep. The

She would turn off the electricity to my room so that there was no TV, curling irons, games, or

The locusts visiting the village is one of the lighter and happier moments in the story. The author included this rare joyful event to depict the culture of the Ibo people. Usually locusts are thought of as harmful pests, but the Ibo have welcomed the pests’ visit and see it as a reason for celebration.(1047) The celebration and feast caused by the locusts’ are a high point in Okonkwo’s life before it all falls apart. This event also provides context for a reference made later in the novel to a European man traveling out alone to explore and report back to the other Europeans.

Buzzzzzzz! Did you know that Locusts can destroy your life? In the late 1800s the ingalls family got attacked by the locust swarms. In Lauren Tarshis article “Swarms of Terror” she wrote about how the Locusts ruined the ingalls and many others families lives. If you want to find out what the locusts were like and how they affected the people and the ingalls family keep reading.

Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring I got a call from the police station to come to RT 60 on top of the hill where there will be a wooden cabin on the top of the hill where there will be 6 other houses. I need your help because when I came home my dad Mr. Boddy was dead in his when I was about to bring him dinner. Mr. Boddy didn’t answer me so I thought he was asleep but he wasn’t in his room I went to look in the bathroom and my dad Mr. Boddy was dead right there in the middle of the floor in the bathroom shot and stabbed to death. When I got there, their was a crowd of people standing their and would not let me by. Due to that when I pulled in the drive way after they had let me by These four people started to walk away really fast then when I looked

In Alabama, in the country, next to a dirt road and a muddy lake that was full of green water, where you couldn’t go to sleep because the frogs croaked too loud, there was a large house. The large house was made of splintery wood, and was inhabited by only one person. Now, the lake that his house was built on had been where a boy named Ronald Pratt had been ran over after removing the bricks from in front of the wheels of a flaming portable, saving the lives of many kids after the portable rolled into the lake and the fire was extinguished. One day, the man who owned the house was in his bed at 8:30 pm and he heard a whisper. He couldn’t make out any words, but he heard it all right. He pulled out a flashlight and grabbed his rifle to go and

Today was a normal day. I woke up bright and early, ate a few of my favorite butternut cookies for breakfast, made a few sales, shined some old rich man's loafers, and just about to as I was about to lockup the old shoe shop at eleven o'clock, I heard a faint yelling sound coming from the road over. I stood by the door with my key still in the lock to feel secure in case something awful was to occur in this situation. Then, just as the yelling had stopped for about five minutes, I heard it again, but this time closer, a lot closer! I bent down in the shop's window so whoever was outside at this late hour wouldn't be able to know that I too was up at this late hour! It got to the point to where I could hear footsteps right outside of the window

“Will He ever wake Up?” “I wish I was there.” All these things I heard until I saw a man. I stopped In a gas station to fill up on gas and get something to eat.But then In the darkness I heard a terrifying troubling noise. “It’s your time Mr.Mayor.” I heard this voice from the darkness.Then out of the darkness a creepy man more creepy than a haunted house at halloween came rushing at me. Adrenalin filled my veins. I dropped the gas and ran I got in my car and sped off. While Driving down the damp,deserted,and dark street I was wondering why did he want me out of all people why me. I decided to go to a hotel in RealersVille where no one can find me. I paid my fee for my hotel room and speed to room. I dead bolted and locked the door. My heart pounding I sit on my bed and wondered “What is happening?” I woke up but I don't remember anything from yesterday.I walked downstairs and asked for a newspaper the day before the bell hop said “We don't like pranksters here so go back up in your room or leave.” As the mayor of the town before I was disgusted. Now that I think about that I don't even know what this town is called.I go on my phone and I look up FakersVille on the map...It Wasnt there.I hear a knock on my door.I look through the door with the eyes on my pale face.It was the

I had tried everything to avoid being in the house I had laid on the trampoline, I had laid in my room, and I had laid in the bathtub. When at random my aunt came running into the house yelling for my mother. “CPS is looking for Anna. Heather someone reported sexual assault.” and with that my life was flipped upside down. It was a long process of talking to a caseworker and long glares from my mother and eventually our car pulled into the driveway and as they speak of the devil and he shall appear. I was in a full on panic and everything was turned against me I told the cops one thing and mike and my mother would fire back with another. It was still my fault even when the social worker told me it wasn’t, it somehow still became my fault. My aunt stuck by my side most of that day even when my mom told her to get away from me. My own mother didn’t believe me when I needed her most she believed a man who had deceived her and manipulated her to many times. That night mike was told to stay away from the house until further notice and I felt as though I could finally breathe and before I knew it, it was gone again. My mom that night would not speak to me she would glare and shove me out of the way anytime she had something to tell me she would tell my brother to tell me. Before I knew it she

Jackson: The Rocky Mountain Locust, Melanoplus spretus, resembles the common grasshopper. It is of the Acridinae or “short-horned grasshopper,” family, a family found all through North America, distinguished by a spine located near where the first two legs attach. The Rocky Mountain Locust was 20-35 mm in length, or around 1 inch long. The Locust could also rub its legs together to chirp and had wings were long and capable of flight. The wings stretched further past its abdomen in comparison to its closest-living relative, Melanoplus sanguinipes, the red-legged grasshopper. The Rocky Mountain Locust was migratory, swarming from California to North Dakota and Texas.

I can tell that she was angered. Stepping hard and wiggling me back and forth. As she walks she slams her feet hard stomping around. We were in vergina on vacation and i guess to her that means we are walking a lot the black ground burning me and we went to this strange place where this dirt was everywhere and wouldn't get off. She was gone forever in the water, be careful to keep me far enough away I wasn't wet to. After this they were arguing. She didn't want to go to a flower garden it makes our noses stuffed and our head hurt. We wanted to go go-carting as soon as the person they called dad said it we were so excited. To go fast feel the wind on us ,to just be able to laugh. But we had to go to the garden the mother said so.

The big German cockroaches took over the apartment in Oakland, Cali-fornia on East 18th Street, especially when ICE Medina cooked her great meals for her only child daughter, Racine Medina Starr. As a conscientious mother ICE tried to ward off pests by spraying, and by extermination. The roaches were immune to those processes and were here to stay. Even when there was only enough food for her daughter – ICE made sure she put her foot in her sparse creations. Roach spray didn’t deter this brand of cock-roaches, this was their home and ICE figured she and her daughter Racine after time was living with the roaches.

The creator named King Josh was very pure and could converse with animals and King Josh would visit with them everyday of the week. One day people of the village that King Josh runs asked for something sweet. So King Josh sent the bee to a tree in the village to built a hive. After the bee produced the sweet syrup the bees filled up containers full of honey for the people. They loved the syrup and asked for more, but the bee said i have no more to give for a while the bee said you will have to wait. The people of the village was not happy at all with the bees they were craving the sweet syrup. They went to King Josh saying we need more syrup!!!!! we need more syrup!!!! King Josh had to calm the people down and think real hard of another way

Suddenly the front door opened, my family heard footsteps coming up the wooden stairs they started to panic they made a run towards the window they decided on jumping out the window running towards his car, my whole family sped towards the motel we had stayed at that morning. Gloria asked the receptionist the history about the abandoned house, the receptionist only gave them them the simple information of the house never existing. My family has never once spoken about the abandoned house in St. Elmo, Colorado since the incident that changed their lives