Story : A Short Story

Tante Lou rose from her knees, still humming, and walked -- nearly skipped -- back inside. She kept on cooking as Miss Emma came in from the hallway along with the yappy

“Go away,” Tizbeth shouted through the door. After a few minutes of shouting, Ann left. She had done everything for Donovan, Tizbeth admitted to herself in the quiet. She had turned herself human on some childish crush.

Songbirds flutter outside, singing their warm tunes of the autumn season. Ayra, a woman who lives in a small cozy home within the village, squints her eyes tighter as she drags herself out of slumber. Light shined through the window, exposing the suspended dust that floats delicately in the air. Oddly it was very relaxing, almost impossible for Ayra to pull herself out of bed, but she managed to eventually. She just went ahead and changed from her sleepwear to her daily outfit. Her daily outfit was a shapeless dress that was fastened by the waist with a simple girdle, her shoes were boots that weren’t heavy duty but enough to cover her feet. She grabbed her shawl and sat down at her desk to brush out her hair for the day. She just stared at her reflection, brushing out her auburn hair. She didn’t put makeup on like the other women in the village, her skin was a natural ivory and speckled with freckles across her nose bridge and cheeks. Her deep blue eyes really complimented the look as well.

Still, he doesn't know who to blame for that... if there was anybody to blame... Maybe it was timing; they were living in a present, but the impending future was pushing the burdensome past too cruelly for a normal outcome of the situation.

It’s a pretty day, thought Chrissie as she munched on her leftover birthday cake. Chrissie just turned eight, and was patiently waiting on her front porch for her grandmother to return from grocery shopping. Normally she would have accompanied her grandmother to the store, but the previous day she had the misfortune of stumbling over a neighbors left out toy and wound up spraining her ankle. Luckily for her she had her grandmother’s hissing mangy scraggly mouse of a cat, Suggs, to keep her company. Chrissie wasn’t incredibly fond of Suggs; he’d bite, claw, and shed fur everywhere. Once he even knocked down and broke Chrissie’s favorite snow globe. Although he was a nuisance in almost every possible way, Chrissie thought of him as family, just as if he were an aggravating little brother.

Every chapter is someone else’s story, a story that like life, intertwines and mingles with other stories. Taking from a small town in 1952 was brother and sister pair Abdullah and Pari. Abdullah was the older brother, who loved his father and mother very much. When Pari birth killed their mother, Abdullah took on the role of big brother very seriously, as he was Pari’s protector. When their father remarried to Parwana, who gave birth to son Iqbal, Abdullah know that he and Pari would never stand equal to their mother’s true son. With a father who works all day to support their family, Abdullah takes the role of father, mother and brother to Pari. Not that he minded, as in his world the sun rises and set on Pari. Pari made Abdullah promise that they would grow old, living in their own houses that are next door: “From the front of the wagon, she turned to look at him. Do you promise, Aboolah? For always and always” (27). On their way to visit Parwana’s brother Nabi and his employers in Kabul. What Abdullah did not know was this was the last time he would see Pari. His father made a deal with Nabi’s employer, Mr. Wahdati and his infertile wife, that in exchange for Pari as a daughter, that they would provide her a better life then he could ever give her. Abdullah too young to realize that his father did was best for Pari, was shock and horror, as they leave Kabul to go back to their village without his sun.

In a far far away village called Lugglepalooza lived the Luggles. The Luggles lived in a seemingly perfect world. They spent their days at Mystic Garden listening to the roses sing while the Flutterflies put on brilliant shows of flashing lights and neon colors. They ate fruit from the Marigold tree which grew in the middle of Mystic Garden and swam in the sparkling water from Luggle Falls. Every Luggle in Lugglepalooza had chocolate brown hair and bright purple skin. Everyone got along just fine for nothing ever went wrong. But one day a baby Luggle was born with platinum blonde hair. The Luggles in Lugglepalooza didn't know how to react. The newborn Luggle angered some while others were frightened of what it might become. The baby was banished from Lugglepalooza along with it’s parents who wouldn't dare part with it. From then on out any baby born with blond hair was banished from Lugglepalooza…

Lily was there and more excited than ever, Lily had made it to the junior world champion swimming compaction she can’t wait, her mum Tracy and her boyfriend Jake was there to support her she wish her dad could but he was all ways in lily’s heart and mind he had died of cancer, he was her best friend and her everything but she knew that one day they would be back together but for now she has to worry about the comp. Lily was hanging out with some friends and Jake that came to sport her in the comp, then her cotch came over and said,

“Yes. Perhaps that would be the best idea,” Monsieur Roden agreed, looking from one of them to the other.

Once in an old time, there was a princess named Shaelyn. She lived in a castle with her two parents King Craig and Queen Angie. She was a short 15-year-old brunette that didn’t have many friends. She was very shy and would have much rathered sit in her room alone all day instead of going out. Her mother had recently fallen ill and died unexpectedly. Shaelyn and her mother had a very strong bond, they were like best friends. When her mother had suddenly died she was devastated that she would never be able to see her again and would have done anything for one more goodbye.

“Yeah,” she shook her head in agreement, “I believe you are right. Though I truly believe that everyone needs to start focusing on surviving as a team. There is no way in hell that we can do this without each other, Everyone needs someone to rely.” She stated with a slight, the hair she had pulled back bounced around wildly. Her dark brown hues stared at her. “There isn’t anything wrong with thinking about the long wrong as long you don’t forget about the here and now,” lifting her hand she gestured to everything around them. “Don’t wanna get too caught up thinking about the future and forget that the dead is wandering around eating the living. Stick with your group and you’ll survive.” Laurel spoke in a soft voice, a smile forming on her lips. “Even though the poor girls end up saving the men who want to protect them in the end.” She shook her head and rolled her eyes. She hated men like that before the end of the world and she hated them even more now.

Excited burbles permeated the kitchen while Sakura skimmed through the morning paper. Nothing thrilling occured where she was stationed… then again that was likely a good thing. Peacetime was cherished widely because no one knew when it would end. At least, civilians never did.

Everything was all good November 12th. It was a cold day outside where I wasn’t in my best mood to get up for school so my mom thought it was ok for me to stay home with her, I wanted to look forward to spending the day with my brother deundre and my sister kyala once she got home from school. However, that day I had planned ahead of us didn’t go so good everything went the way I didn’t want it to go.

Now this is a story about how a man's heroism saved a life of a dozen others.Ashlyn and Kelbie were in one of the twin towers,answering phones,when all of a sudden they felt a boom and a big crash.Everyone went flying and people were hit by the plane and objects went every where either on the floor or on bodies.Ashlyn and Kelbie were the luckier ones they were farther away from the crash,but Ashlyn was hurt badly she had her head slip open and Kelbie had a printer on her leg.They both tried to stay strong but knew this was their end and time.Everyone was saying that there was no exit and that there was no way out.

She smiled, “That is quite alright. They are just inside. I ought to fetch them for you.”