One Decision Can Turn You Upside Down Short Story

The trees were in bloom. It was a year like so many others, with its spring, its engagements, its weddings, and its births.

In the back of my mom’s moving car, I wake up in a daze. The Gameboy that was previously in my hands had fallen to the floor, and the sun’s rays that had previously glared through the window were replaced with the shine of the moon and stars. As my small hands press up against the glass, my eyes twinkle and my toothy, black holed grin widens at the celestial body blaring in the night sky. Astonished, I watch the moon seemingly follow our car, almost as if my existence awed the moon and not the reverse. As the full moon swallows the sky, the unknown distance between us becomes minuscule. If only my three foot frame was a bit bigger, if only my arms could stretch as far as my imagination, I could touch the moon. It was in this moment that I

SJ and I were polar opposites. Two young girls forced into an unforgiving world and left to sink or swim. SJ's life lived on a tight rope balanced between the sweet devout Christian girl who loved her family and the sexually promiscuos girl who experimented with drugs and sneaking out to meet up with the boy toy of the week. Her two parent, two story home protected her for only so long as she stepped off her tight rope and went head first into a world that she never was supposed to belong to, the world that I belonged in. I met SJ in my third high school in as many years. That day she left her two story home to come to my one-half parent, two bedroom apartment.

You see I was thoroughly bored seeing as there was nothing to do but stare out of the window. The radio was playing “I can see Clearly Now”, by some unknown person-It was ironic considering it was raining outside-. My mother was driving, my dad was in the passenger seat, and my three brothers were in the vehicle as well. To either side of us there were fields. We eventually came upon a store, so we stopped there for

Throughout history, Europeans have been given credit for the discovery of the New World. For many years, thousands of Indians had been settled in North America long before the European voyages sailed across the Atlantic. When the Europeans came looking for religious freedom, societies and traditions were soon to be changed by the newcomers. The Europeans considered the Indians as savages and uneducated. There were many different tensions between the Indians and Europeans, but natives soon learned that they could benefit from one another.

Then we were on our way to Kansas City. My friends and i were talk about how excited we were. Then we all got our phones out and our headphones out and we all listen to music the whole way there. They both fell asleep so i grabbed a marker and drew all over their face and when they woke up I told them if they want to take a picture together and they said sure. So I took the picture and then showed them,

There’s always a point in our lives where we are faced with a decision to make. Sometimes we make the right one, sometimes we make the wrong. Either way, these difficult decisions have some kind of impact on us; some good, some bad. In this cluster, authors recall tough decisions they’ve had to make; sometimes it’s the right, and sometimes the wrong. These essays talk about the impact these decisions have had on them for the rest of their life, and what it changed for the good.

When I met up with Deanne and Julia, I seen an old friend Jessica and her cousin at Liberty bell. I was friends with her in 5th grade but I had to stop being her friend because we were going opposite directions in life. Jessica came up to me and said,” Moe are you down to smoke with us”. I went over to deanne and julia and I asked “ you down to do it”. Deanne replied “ yea we’re down”. We walked with Jessica and her cousin to an alleyway.

I started seeing kids that were my age and lots of girls and boys. I would say there were about 500 kids attending this camp. The guys were super cute so I was a happy camper. When I kept walking to the field, I noticed a girl sitting by herself on the grass. I walked up to her and introduced myself. Her name was Ellie and she was from San Diego. She was about my height and had the blondest hair and bluest eyes. She was wearing a crop top and a mini skirt. She was pretty much a blonde version of me. I asked her what cabin and group she was in and she said cabin two and in the brown group. My anger just turned to happiness real quick. It was like Ellie and I were made to be best friends. We went down to the field where a camp welcome meeting was held. Cliff explained to us about what the camp meant and all the rules. He finally let everyone go get situated in their cabins. We started walking up this big hill but we were cabin two so we didn’t have to walk that

Bone chilled wintry night of October seventh oak leaf's been taken in the whirling north wind. Where stagnant street lights displayed an evil glitch, Stood a woman with hair color as the night moon. Lip color of a lover's rose. Skin a pleasant olive tone, eyes of topaz. She had often been seen on the most unusual hours, as she would casually hum the most beautiful tune which some would say as a sound of an angel singing.

We had planned to spend a good hour or so hanging out at the bottom and catching our breath, however due to the sun setting soon, we knew that we would have to immediately head back. So as irritated and tired as we were, we headed back up the trail. Now as I said we are all pretty outdoorsy people. However, Lauren isn’t the most athletic girl I know and also wore her dad’s boots which were three sizes too big and were beginning to give her blisters. Did I mention that the trail back is a three mile, straight-up hills trail? We knew that it was going to be hard to get her back to the top before it got to dark to hike. Also, since our car was in the horse parking lot, that would be an extra mile once we got to the top. So we figured the best option would be to divide up. Maya and I took off so that we could get the car and drive it back to where Lauren and JR would be waiting at the top of the hiking trail. Maya and I hiked up as quickly as we could, completely out of breath, out of water, and out of energy. I didn’t think that we would ever make it out, until finally I saw the light out of the trees. Once we made it out of the trail, we ran the mile to the car and rejoiced as we finally got to sit down in the air-conditioned Elantra. We drove back to Lauren and JR waiting for us and ended the hectic day by eating pancakes at Cracker

So we stopped at the nearest rest stop.It was a quick in and out and we hopped right back in the car an ibucled up as we pulled out of the lot. About 2 minutes later i hear everyone scream,[even my dad for the first] I dont know whats going on so I scream too.Then i hear a loud PLUNK!

The night went on as more and more people showed up. Everyone was having a great time listening to music, hanging around the fire, and shooting off fireworks. Every now and then people would want to ride around on the Kubota but it only had three seats so we would load people on it. Three in the seats, two-four people in the bed, one person holding onto each side, and my favorite spot, the hood (yeah it was stupid but fun). Finally, it was about 9 P.M. and the last group of people had shown up so Chuck, Dylan, and I rode up to the barn to pick them up. When we got there, we realized they had brought one extra person with them so there was three of them instead of two. Chuck was driving and Dylan rode shotgun while one of our friends took the

“My car won’t move” I said turning and looking to Shane. As always, he thought I was just playing so he told me to stop playing around and go. I looked at him once again and said, “My car will not move, I am pushing on the gas but it will not move forward.” As I looked back at the cars behind me embarrassment automatically fell over my face as they laid on their horns. I put my car in park and turned my hazards on as Shane went and told the people they would have to go around. We called both of our parents but they were all at work and could not leave. We were stuck there. As we sat there still in panic one of our friends’ dad pulled up behind me. “That is Roy Plummer!” Shane yelled as he jumped out of my car running back to Roy. He told

It was getting pretty dark so we had to be quick. Will brought some flashlights for us to use, we asked him why he had them and he said he's afraid to walk in the dark alone. Alex and I just started laughing at the ridiculousness of way just said. I told him the last time I was afraid of the dark was when I was five. It was my first time sleeping without a night-light and I thought there was something in my closet. I kept on crying and crying until my mom came in and showed me that there was nothing there, ever since that I've never been afraid of the dark. We started to descend the hill to search for the ball it was fall however, there were so many piles of leaves that resembled the ball. It would have been hard to find it. At this time it was getting pretty dark so we turned on the flashlights to get a better look. I told my friends they have to stay with me or else they would reach out to giving me $50 to replace the football. 15 minutes had passed and we were getting tired I said “we can come back tomorrow and look for it then.” They said okay that's fine but how are we going to get out, no one had taken directions so we were lost in the forest just the three of us. So we just guessed which way was out and we started walking in that direction. A couple of minutes had passed and Alex tripped on something, his