Pauling Ngo Short Story

My heart pounded brutally in my chest as my feet left the ground. Once I started elevating into the air my body was yanked along with the wind. As I was getting higher, I slowly saw everything become smaller. All of the buildings below me became dollhouse size. I watched the huts turn into tiny drink umbrellas. I looked around to witness the incredible view of the enormous mountains in the distance. The mountains became more clear as I was soaring closer to them. I could now observe the entire city in one glance. I could feel the cold breeze brushing up against my skin. Wanting to stay in that one moment, I forgot about everything and just focused on flying. It was almost time to land, I had to listen for my whistle. Once the screeching whistle blew I knew I had to pull the red cord. I reached back to grab the cord and tugged on it. I was slowly starting to drift back onto the shore. Once my feet touched the hot sand, I felt a wave of relief go over me. My adrenaline finally stopped pumping and I was able to be breathe

     We left quickly walking fast and practically running toward the gondolas so we wouldn’t be stuck on the mountain all night long. By now the storm was close and so was the lightning. The people at the station loaded the four of us into a gondola and we slowly worked our way down the mountain. Hanging in this tiny box of metal by a hook on a wire cable was not the most reassuring thing. I looked out the window hoping to see the ground, but it was too dark. I could barely see the hand in front my own face. Lightning would flash, and all I could make out were the tops of trees. Paranoia overwhelmed me. My breaths seemed to become further and further apart as time slowed. As I was trying to relieve my mind of worst case scenario, a big flash and enormous rumble sounded. We stopped moving. Our gondola had

April 14th, 2016, 10:00 pm, on board the Norwegian Dawn. Jackson Shloo and his wife were at dinner, at the McDonald's on board. The rest of the restaurants were closed or too crowded at this hour to get a table. After their “meal,” they decided to have the night of their life, party in the club, then at Midnight go to the ship deck and watch the waves. Their kids were in their room on the ship, fast asleep, nothing could wake them up. Jackson didn’t know that he would never see them again, forever. 11:00 pm. Jackson and his wife were at the club, not drinking, but just dancing, nothing seemed different, out of the ordinary, deadly and life changing.

After days of being out at sea a storm started up. Lightning struck the boat, but everyone was okay. It had seemed like a long night, while the boat shook back and forth from the storm. Ben tried to fall asleep for hours and finally was able to.

It all started going wrong for John, Sam and Joseph, when they started to hear sputtering from the engine's core. Their stomachs dropped as they started to plummet to the ground. It all happened in a flash as the cargo from the plane fell out of the back. The plane makes contact with ocean and they soon realize the plane is starting to fill up with water. “Are you guys okay?!” shrieked John. “Yeah I'm fine.” replied Sam. “Guys!!” Yelled Joseph. “I am trapped under the seat, and I can't move my leg.” “Were coming.” Yelled Sam and John, but just then the plane broke in two and they lost sight of Joseph. Sam and John were panicked, but had to get out of the plane so they broke down the plane's door and grabbed two life jackets and bolted out. The current was strong, but the adrenaline overcome Sam and John while they were swimming for their lives.

Until finally this lady’s reflection appeared on water. She said Adam would be taken to visit anyone he desired to meet. 10 mintues later the wall shattered and the paint peeled off like nail polish. A bright shinning light came through it. He couldn’t see anything. He was blinded by the shine. He covered his eyes with his right hand, peaking through his fingers, squinting his eyes, and his heart beated faster than the speed of light. Finally he adjusted to the light, he then walked towards the wall. He noticed a hand reaching out to him. Adam reached out and grabbed it. He was quickly rising up. He was up with his father. It was peaceful and cloudy. There wasn’t many people around. It was weird you were able to see everyone else on earth. At the same time it was creepy. Surprisingly Adam was not scared but

When he got down there he found a key rack with a single key on it. He grabbed the key and looked at it. It was clearly a boat key. “THIS IS MY CHANCE,” shouted Rainsford. He ran outside and looked around for 30 minutes or so. Then he found it. A nice red speedboat. Rainsford ran onto the boat and cranked the engine. It roared to life with great power Rainsford could hardly control his inner excitement. This excitement reminded him of when he first started hunting big game, back when he killed a lion in Africa. He shook away the memory this is no time for that, Rainsford thought. He sped off in the direction of where he landed only a few days prior. He drove past the landing site with intense hatred and anger. How could a spot of land cause such anger, Rainsford thought. He shook away the thought and a new one replaced it, this was it! He was escaping the island that almost killed him multiple times! Rainsford arrived on land a few hours later to find Whitney standing near the shore talking to a man, but he looked different somehow. Rainsford ran to him shouting,” Whitney! Whitney! I’ve returned” Whitney turned around and Rainsford realized why he looked different. Whitney had aged 30 years! When

Dolores fell roughly to her knees and just barely avoided hitting her head on the edge of the bunk. Shocked and disorientated the young woman failed to realise that the whole boat was tilting to its side and only after things in her cabin started to fall over, it dawned on her that she was in trouble. Moments later water started entering the cabin which felt surreal to Dolores, it could not be could it? Her cabin was supposed to be high above the waterline, yet she felt the cold lashing water hit her feet and knees. By the time she managed to get up and make up her mind of how to proceed, the water had risen to her hips already, the cold almost paralysing her. What followed would only remembered by her in a blur. The opening of her cabin door, half swimming half walking through the corridor, the wetness, the cold and most distinguishable, the fear. Never had she been so afraid in her entire life, never had she been afraid for her life. Inside her mind she begged god to help her. She would have begged the crewmen as well yet there was no sign of anybody. Dolores faintly remembered seeing half of the boat submerged and herself holding on to a piece of wood for dear life in the all surrounding darkness of the night on the

Rain hit my head, raced down my face and back. We trudged through the mud, sinking in our boots feet deep. All we could see was our breathe, all we could hear was the wind slapping against the trees, rain hitting, and our boots squishing in the mud. We expected the weather to be like this, the weather channel had been going crazy all week about a storm passing through our way around 5 pm today. Just as predicted the rain became heavier, fog thicker, and sky darker. But our search group did not give up; we had been searching months for the beloved missing girl named Emma Barrett in the Elliott State Forest in Oregon. She was last scene heading into the forest with her parents on a Tuesday afternoon for a hike, hours

An ocean of green and brown washes away the rain that trickles meticulously down through the rainforest canopy, with berating waves of leaves and ferns that protect the below world. And this world is a world like none you have ever seen before. As soon as you part the brush to enter the realm of massive vines and howler monkeys, you vision is constantly filled with emerald and you see beauty like never seen before. This wildlife rescue contained a small number of injured animals, but just being in the presence of a few of the Costa Rican wild beasts shredded any amount of doubt in one’s mind that this was paradise. Step into the center of the makeshift zoo, and you find that all the paths converge here. And just as all roads lead to Rome,

One day, while she was watching the webcam, she noticed a young boy in a red jacket carrying a baby who would visit the elephants often. His name is Sebastian Wilder. He lives on a houseboat with his

I got really sick from the cold air. Alisha isn’t here with me anymore. They separated us. Every night they come over to us and take the dead bodies of the people that died of disease and starvation. They throw their dead bodies overboard. Space is very limited. I have splinters and scratches all over my body from when the ship starts. The woman next to me is the nicest person on this ship. Her name is Sylvia. She got separated from her husband and daughter. I saw them take the men away. They packed them in with leg irons.

He ran outside half-dressed screaming “WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON” He ran to see guess what NOTHING he thought he was losing his damn mind. He closed his eyes and thought about being back on the water. He wishes he could find his sister, but no one knows where she is. “Maybe she’s on this damn island from where was that who I saw last night”. “Could my sister be dead or the person I saw last night”

We were walking on a Puerto Rican street to our favorite restaurant in San Juan when it started raining. Jonathan, Diego and I decided to take shelter under a palm tree. A few seconds later I heard a “boom” and then the noise of someone falling on the floor. I looked around, and right next to me there was Diego, lying still on the ground; he had been knocked out by the coconut that fell from the tree. Was he alive? Was he dead? I opened my eyes; I was still in my hotel room. It was again only a nightmare. I looked at the alarm clock, and it was just 4:30 A.M.

One day after school Isabell went to the bridge so she could write an essay on how the water works, and while she was studding the water something weird happened. There was a water bubble under the bridge that magically appeared below her. She heard a voice say “run, hide, and stay away from here”. She was so scared she fainted. When she had finally awaken, she was in her bed, and she thought