Tannistha Ganguly: A Short Story

The novel “Legend of the Ghost Dog”, written by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel, is a thriller and mystery tale about a young girl named Anita (although is known as ‘Tee’ throughout the book), on an expedition she attended to a small cabin located in the Alaska wilderness, in the town of Nome, with her father and her younger brother Jack, and another young girl that she befriended named Quin. This adventure starts from not Tee’s perspective, but from an older woman named Dodie about her childhood raising Siberian Huskies with her family, these chapters would consistently reoccur in the novel. The legend began as just a silly yet spine tingling fable of a dark looming creature known as the “Shadow” that lived deep in the Alaskan woods near a creek referred to as Dorothy Creek, where just so happen Tee, her little brother and her father were residing near, however escalated to a conundrum about the “Shadow” that turned out to just be a dog, a jet black Husky with pale blue eyes with a strong broad body, discovered by the two young girls after taking Tee’s beagle on a walk in the snow.

The realistic fiction story of Stray by Cynthia Rylant teaches a lot of lessons. One lesson the story teaches is being persuasive. This tells me she is trying to persuade her parents because she thinks that she can take care of this stray dog. Another lesson the story teaches is caring. This shows me that Doris is caring to to take in the dog. Finally, the last lesson the story teaches is being trustworthy. Doris’s parents trust her to take care of the stray dog all by herself.

"I had to wait for that guy David to finish helping me with that stupid assignment. I had no idea what Carlisle was asking for!" Emelie complained. Georgina laughed, brown ringlets bouncing.

During the Christmas of 1975 Shelly was given a Raggedy Anne doll that went with her everywhere. Little did she know that soon another friend would surpass all that Raggedy Anne had to offer. Brandy, a mild mannered Saint Bernard/Yellow Lab mix, was found at Olga’s Ice Cream Parlor on 3rd street in Corvallis. Brandy and Shelly became inseparable, going everywhere together. On Shelly’s paper route, Brandy would carry newspapers as Shell delivered them. The dog would allow Shelly to ride on her back even when Shelly grew too big for the Saint Bernard. Brandy was a perfect picture of devotion.

Annie Dillard arose from her tent that rested in the Ecuadorian jungle. She was outnumbered by six men to one female on her morning journey, as she and her six male escorts reached Providence Village. The first view of excitement to capture her attention was a dwarf size, frail frame fawn roped to a tree near a thatched roof hut. This was symbolic of the stability of a vicious pit bulldog that would be chained to a six-foot chain length fence, back home in my neighborhood. One could only imagine the gruesome details of the helpless fawn that Dillard was describing. This fawn had been captured and roped to a tree. If this was not humiliating enough, the agony continued, the fawn twisted his limp bloody frail body as if he was interacting

She was all alone- her coat soaked to the pelt- causing it to lie flat against her, freezing her to the core. Unable to get warm or dry, and too scared to venture any further from her herd, the doe stood strong. Her energetic parade had dissipated into a mere stroll, yet the furrows in the earth were getting ever deeper. The doe’s young muscles demanded rest, although her instincts and frozen limbs kept her

He laughed again as they made their way into the camping equipment store he scouted out. He decided to buy some time to see if he could get some answers out of (Y/N) and pretended to browse.

Her breath shown in the cold moist air of the lake side. She quickened her pace, dashing from one underbrush to the next, twigs and branches scratching at her face as if begging for her to take them away with her from this wretched land, her breathing became increasingly vigorous. Her limbs grew heavy as more and more mud started to cling to her boots as if also wanting to go with her and the distance she had to cover seemed to become more and more. She started to think she couldn’t go on anymore, except for one reason and one reason only. The warm infant wrapped in blankets and cloth started to become heavier and heavier in her arms as she felt her body starting to fail her. But she couldn’t stop she had to get her baby to safety. As the sound of dogs barking and the hooves of horses and the screams of soldiers yelling,” She went this way!” “No this way!” The ever growing thought of are they going to find me, did I do all this just to get

"Where are you going? You said you don't leave for two days." Arthur looked so startled by Leon's movement the knight was laughing before he could stop himself. Arthur simply stared before he too seemed to realise how he had sounded and grinned, running a hand through his hair as he did so.

“Not this time my friend, I’m just here to share a story over some giggle water.” Chuckled Russell in response as he took a swig of his hooch. “What’s happened this time?”

“Y-Yeah.” She said, trying restrain her disgusted look. Funny enough. She still had that frog in her home.

"He didn't want nothing to do with greyhounds," Tommy insisted. "He said they were spooky looking? It bothered him to look at

Oil nade two types of gas, regular gas and diesel. The gas was easy to put in and it lasted a lot longer then the other things that they had tried. The cars they had built had gotten 20 miles per gallon and they had a lot of oil left in the

Once upon a time there lived a lanky little rat named Rudy. Rudy’s fur was very dull and felt like needles. She lived in a tiny village where all the animals knew each other. Every afternoon she would meet with her friends at the riverbank to tell stories of their morning. One day Rudy scurried to the riverbank excited to share with her friends a cheesecake she had baked just for them, but when she arrived at the meeting spot, no one was there. Worried and confused, Rudy hurried in to town to look for her friends there. Just as she reached the main road, her body froze as she watched the most beautiful creature strolling through town. Rudy looked around and noticed she was not the only animal in the village mesmerized by this beautiful

lived for a while near a plantation in Assam and visited Ceylon. And saw the inhumanity and barbarism prevalent there, with the consequent dehumanization of the colonials involved in the process" (Anand, Mulk, Raj. www.lanuageinindia.com/aug2014/ sulochanatwoleavesfinal.Web.13 Nov 2014).