Short Story : Creative Writing

When Joe became self-reliant he knew what he had to do, which make enough money for school each year. He even met back up with his dad to help him build the new house. After Thula passed away; Joe was welcomed back into the home, where Joyce and Joe would “play house”. Harry, Joyce and the kids would cheer Washington’s team when they raced.

After owning the deli with his brother for three years, Joe decided to take the police officer test. He passed and was planning to attend the police academy. But when his mother discovered his plan, she cried and begged him to get a city job.

Joe was on his way to Eatonville to make a better life for himself, he asked Janie where her parents were and Janie explained that she is married and her husband was out getting a mule for her to plow. Joe expresses that that is not a way for her to be treated and asks her to leave Logan and marry him.

On June 27, the citizens of a small town gather in the center of town to hold the annual lottery. The children who had recently ended school for the summer arrive first, the boys gathering stones into their pockets or into piles, and the girls gathering and talking among themselves. The men come, talking about crops, weather, and taxes. Next then the women, greeting each other, gossiping and eventually joining their husbands. Parents start calling their children to come join them and all the families stand and wait for the

In the shop Janie makes a mistake when giving a customer tobacco and Joe verbaly degrades her in front of the entire store. Janie snaps due to her holding in her emotions for so long that she replies by saying he looks like "de change uh life" when naked. Joe feeling threatend hits janie in front of the store crowd. 3.

Joe and Janie begin to talk and soon Joe wants Janie to run away with him

Joe gets angry at Simon as a negative result and tells him God has no plan for him, believing that his mother died for no

The game was at a tie, both teams were at 21 points. Luke, the quarterback, was being watched by scouts who were looking for the best players to play for them. It was the final quarter, Lukes team had the ball, and there was 30 seconds left on the game clock. The play started, Luke passes it to Joe, their best player for getting touchdowns. When Joe got the ball, he was off, no matter what the defence tried, their was no way they were going to catch him. Joe had scored the game winning touchdown, the crowd goes wild with excitement. After the game, all of Luke’s friends Joe, Bob, and Bruce, decided to go out to celebrate the game victory. Outside of the stadium, a scout came up to them, and talks to them about

To begin, Joe becomes self sufficient and begins to have trust issues after his family leaves him for the second time. Harry and Thula, his dad and stepmom, influence Joe’s emotions to the reasons why they abandoned

Woo hoo, I won two tickets to a Notre Dame vs. Cardinals Football game. I’ve been wanting to go to a Football game for awhile, better yet, it’s Notre Dame. I won the tickets by putting my name in the raffle, I didn’t think I would win, but I just wanted to try. My parents don’t usually let me go to Football games, they say, “it’s a waste of money, and time.”

Janie would always respect Joe even though he was a jerk to her at times. She would put up with ever he had to say and she never talked back. Eventually, one day Janie was so fed up with it and decided to strike back verbally. Joe was haggling her a bit as he usually does. He was accusing her of cutting a cigar wrong.

His father tells him that he attacker tried to light his mother on fire, but he couldn’t because the matches were wet. They used their clues (the location of the matches) to narrow down the search. After dinner one evening, Randall, Joe’s good friend’s brother, says he saw a man with gray hair who was trying to warn them of something. Later on, the father and son spend hours going through files of Geraldine’s case (Joe’s father is a lawyer on the reservations). One night, conversation sets off memories of the attack for Geraldine. She tells her husband everything she can remember. She says she remembers an infant and a mother were there too, but her eyes were covered so she wasn’t sure who they were. Shortly after this, Joe finds out that the person who attacked his mother was arrested. Things were going back to the way the were until they learn that the man was released from jail for legal reasons about the location of the attack. Joe and his father run into the attacker at the grocery store, and his father has a heart attack. After more distress, Joe becomes angrier and decides to formulate a plan. He wants to take matters into his own hands, so him and his friend Cappy plan to catch the

Chief Hoppers said, “it’s really not, let's go get some breakfast from the store.” Chief Hoppers drove Eleven and the boys to the local store where they got their breakfast from. While everyone was in line for checkout, Mike picked up a newspaper somebody dropped by the checkout line. Will start to read the newspaper with Mike.

Again, the dark laughter echoed in her head. Shit, shit, shit. She was so damn stupid, so bloody arrogant. In spite of the sunglasses she wore to lessen the risk of overstimulation to her senses, the lenses were no safeguards against the weighted stares of the people on the bus, and Tung wasn’t here acting as a buffer.

On a dark and stormy night, in a small restless town hidden in the Himalayan Mountains. Their