Summary Of A Short Story

“John, what happened?” Officer Marks ask. I just keep crying and I hold Veronica’s head against my chest. An hour later they take Veronica into the ambulance. I just sit on the floor crying. “John, I need to take you in for questioning.” Officer Marks says. I get up and walk with him to the cop car. I get in the back and he

June and Elizabeth soon see and hear flashing lights coming towards them. The police, ambulance, and fire truck are rushing over to the scene. Still in shock about the whole situation, June is approached by a police officer. The police officer's states his name is Kurt. Kurt then tries to comfort June and Elizabeth in this alarming situation. Elizabeth is pacing back and forth looking back at the leveled car and wondering if her dad is going to be alright.

Dorothy Allison's “I'm Working on My Charm” is a story of a young sixteen-year-old girl who works as a waitress with her mother. As a young daughter coming to the same field as the mother, the mother becomes a role model here and supports and helps her daughter on becoming a good waitress. She makes sure the environment her daughter is working on is good and that she is aware of the Yankees. Yankees doesn't see waitresses on the same level as they are. So, the mother is worried how her daughter will deal with Yankees and makes sure she knows how to handle different situations. The daughter is taught to use her charm to influence people. Also, Mabel, her mother's friend, teaches her how to bet on tips from customer. This story illustrates how an older person can be a guide for younger ones to be successful and accepted in the society.

The stories of “The Most Dangerous Game” and “Hunters in the Snow” have a similar story yet very different. Rainsford is shipwrecked, captured, and forced to compete in a hunt for his life. The three friends: Frank, Tub, and Kenny go on a hunting expedition that freely chose to go on, but the story would take an unexpected turn for the worse. In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game” the main character, Rainsford, shipwrecks on a remote island.

All of a sudden the neighbors hear a car starting to start. It’s Les Goodman, one of the house owners on Maple Street, unaware of the situation. As he walks back to his house, his car starts up. As everybody rushes up to him in suspicion. They ask him questions

“Breaking News! During the afternoon of April 23rd, Dr. Phil Johnson was found dead in his office. The murderer is unknown, but luckily for us former detective Stan Walter, a good friend of Phil’s has taken the case into his hands. If you have any thoughts to who the murderer is please report it to the police. Back to you Alex!” The tv turns black and I look over to see who the culprit was and it was my wife Rosalind. “Honey, I know it’s devastating about your loss, but your food is getting cold. Now come eat.” “Ok” I respond, annoyed. At dinner my wife and I talk about the decision of taking the job as the detective for Dr. Phil Johnson’s death since he is my friend. Eventually, she gave in and let me go to my office.

After briefly leaving for a bit they find everything of theirs has been stolen from them. They eventually manage to catch up to the thief and the boy begs for the thief's life stating that its too cruel, but the father only tells the thief to give back what he stole and his clothes and shoes. That night the boy begins to cry for the thief. The boy is still very upset about the thief for the next few days. Bu the real problem begins when the man is shot in the leg with an arrow. The father retaliates with a flare gun shot. Tehn runs in to take the bow only to find it gone. They then go to a building to fix the wound. The boy then confesses that he hears all the crying and coughing the father does in secret and that if the father cries the boy should be allowed to cry too, then he asks if the man that shot the arrow is dead and if his leg would get better, he answers no and yes respectively, both most likely lies. They struggle despite all the hardships, they leave their cart and the mans dream start to become good things. He realizes he's going to die in this place that they are now so he tells the boy to keep the peaches and to keep the tarp for

The police officer looks at her and says, “Well, Lyndsay, I am Scott, and your husband isn’t important right now. We need to make sure you are alright, so how about I take you someplace very safe, where he won’t find you?”

The three were supposed to take a drive to the Cities and catch a Twins game, but Mike decided that his boys needed to learn a lesson. Instead, he drove the twelve blocks over to Carver Jacobs’ house to give the tickets to his kids. But Mike Burk’s car never made it to the Jacobs’ house. About a mile from their home on Exeter Lane, a deer ran out into the road. Mike instinctively slammed on the brakes. The car spun out and while it completely missed the deer, it found the front of a Pickman’s Appliance delivery truck. The doctors told Cody and his brother that their dad never felt a thing. Cody knew that wasn’t true. He suffered and bled out. He died in pain. And it was Cody’s

Later Helen meets a boy named collie. He lives in the same apartment building as Helen. Julie meets a man named Bud. Ray and Julie go to the Greggs house to investigate. They met David’s sister Megan. She then tells Julie about how the wreck affected her family’s life. They found out that they didn’t just kill a boy, they destroyed a whole family. On the way out of the house Ray notices something about the house, that someone much taller than Megan was painting the house. After this they study the evidence. Later Helen walks into her apartment room, and hears a voice behind her. She is startled to see Collie sitting in a chair in the corner. He then proceeded to tell Helen how he knew. Helen tried to lock her self in the bathroom. While in there she tried to look for a way out. Collie tried to take the hinges off the door to get in. Helen Jumped out of the bathroom window, and fell and became unconscious. Meanwhile Julie is waiting for Bud to go to the movies. Her mother insists that she does not go, and Julie agrees. Bud came to the door, and convinced Julie to walk with him to his car. Bud then squeezed Julie’s hand, so she can’t get away. He told her how he found out, and that he was angered by the fact that she sent yellow roses. He said it was like sunshine, but there was none. He then put his hands around her throat and started strangling her. Ray came up and hit Bud on the head with a flash light. He found out from the paint on Bud’s hand from the Gregg’s house. The reason he didn’t kill Ray was because he said that losing Julie would be the worst punishment for

Green was exhilarated with excitement that he was finally going to get his own mansion and he was going to share it with his beautiful and wonderful wife Mrs. Lindsey (Peacock) Green and she was in on the whole thing because she wanted Plum down and out of the spot light. When Joana came out of her imagination wonderland she realized she wasn't alone. Josh and Lindsey were right beside of her and they gave Joana, her cold breakfast and confiscated her phone so she couldn't call or text anymore. When she assumed she couldn't stand she still attempted to and when she did Joana realized she wasn't tied up anymore. Joana went to take a swing at Green, but Peacock grabbed her arm and was going to try to break it. Green shouted at the top of his lungs "STOP! We need her looking fine and well." Peacock threw her are down and White was absolutely angry, so when Peacock was holding her arm, She got her phone back! After she ate she tried to call Bob again and he answered she was so exhilarated to hear his voice and he was extremely excited to hear that she was OK. Joana told Bob the entire story and Green and Peacock's plan to destroy him. Once she finished Bob spoke to his lawyer to go and call Mr. and Mrs. Josh Green to go to court and the hearing would be in one week. So, they communicated with each other until 11:45 and Joana started speaking with him at 7:55 they stopped talking at 11:45, because Joana was about to leave with the Greens and Bob had to get ready for work. Joana had to leave because the Greens needed this desperately, but no

She also contacts her father who she hasn’t seen for many years. To complicate the story a local boy, Dylan, goes missing and Sunny joins the search for him along the creek and at the waterhole. Dylan was pig shooting with his father Gary and Kevin when he went missing. Rumours start going around the district and Kevin is suspected of foul play.

In the story “Eleven” the narrator Rachel acts more like a child. In the eighth paragraph the character Rachel stated, “That’s not, I don’t, you’re not… Not mine”, I finally say in the little voice that was maybe me when I was four.” This reveals Rachel is acting like she was four when she said that sentence. Also, Rachel said “… I’ve shoved the red sweater to the tippy-tip corner of my desk and its hanging all over the edge like a waterfall, but I don’t care.” This illustrates Rachel was acting over dramatic just like a child by pushing the sweater to the tippy-tip corner of her desk. Rachel includes,” … I’m crying like I’m three”… “My face all hot and spit coming out of my mouth because I can’t stop the little animal noises from coming

They look for Ash in the house, in the backyard, and in bushes. Kaitlyn thinks that maybe he ran home but she is for sure that he did not as she stumbles upon a note that leaves scared for Ash and heartbroken. The letter read: if you ever want to see your puppy again you need to bring me 500$ an met me in the alley on Peach street and come alone. Kaitlyn quickly runs home and shows her parents the note and thy give her the money. That night Kaitlyn and Mrs. Philipps ( Kaitlyn’s mother) get in the car and drive to the alley and Mrs. Philipps hides the car deep in the alley so that the car is hidden. Kaitlyn has the money but the person who dognapped Ash is not there so Kaitlyn waits and he comes. Kaitlyn gives him the money and just as he give Ash back to her he grabs Kaitlyn and runs and Mrs.Philipps start’s the car and chases the man , once she caught up with them she gets out of the car and helps Kaitlyn fight the man and once they are free they drive away and call the police because they are both happy,scared,upset, and shocked. They are both worried about what will happen next. The next day Emily calls Kaitlyn and tells her she got a kitten

"What did you see happened?" She told me " I was about to make a toast when my maid Rosa came running and screaming like a manic and she fell into the pool!" While she was telling me more I get a call from a police officer telling to come inside. I go upstairs in a nice bedroom with the woman following behind me. I walk in and see a puddle of blood on the carpet and people taking samples of it. "We are almost done! We will be out of your hair in no time" says one of the analyst. The woman tells him that she doesn't understand, asking what he means when he says they're "done". As the detective receives a clipboard from an officer, he explains to the woman that they've collected all of the evidence and have a suspect in custody, but the woman, who appears near distraught, begins pointing out the masses of blood covering the furniture and carpet. The detective tells her not to worry, assuring her that they've already taken pictures of everything, before telling his colleagues to pack everything up so he that they can get going. In tears, the woman exclaims, "I don't care about photos! I don't care about evidence! My maid was murdered!" everyone looks at her.