The Electric Co-Op: A Short Story

A day after eight year old Ashton’s birthday, he finds his father and complains that something just isn’t right. “I don’t feel natural” Ashton told his father. “Why? What do you mean?” “I wish I was born a girl.” as she turns away running into his room, bawling his eyes out. Thomas chases him to his room saying “Hold on little buddy what’s the matter”. Once again the boy still crying intensely says “I’m not a boy! I want to be a girl!” and then buries himself in his pillow. Thomas calls for Julia, and she rushes in “What’s the matter?”. Once again the boy responds with “I want to be a girl! I’m in the wrong body, I hate this body!”. The father worried but for some reason angry rushes out into the hallway. He blames his wife saying “It’s all your fault.” She responds “How is this my fault you’re crazy” He then stresses to his wife “This is because you’ve gotten him all these girly toys growing up”. “You’ve always treated him like he was some princess”. She starts to cry. He continues, “the kid thinks he’s in some other body because of you, you ruined my little man”. She yells “Shut up! Shut up! I have had enough of this! Maybe it’s just a phase.” “You better hope it is” Thomas says. “What?” she confusedly asks “I better hope”. The husband storms out the house, probably going to a bar to drink his problems away. The wife runs to her boy’s room to try to calm him down. She tells him “Don’t worry about your father, if you really believe this, we’ll help you make your change. Only if you feel the same way you feel now when you are twelve.” The boy remembers her words, every day until the day of his twelfth

“A gang member?” he thought “This is it” said the innocent scrawny man “i’m going to die!!”. What happened next was extraordinary. As the gang member got closer his heart filled more and more with pity and he chose to show this man mercy. He searched his car and found a half empty bottle of beer and used it to wash the man’s cuts and bruises, he then took the blanket that his dog used to sit on so the fur didn’t get all over the car and he put it on the suffering man. He then carried him to his car and drove him to the hospital to get him taken care of. He reached in his pocket to pay the bill. “Oh i only have $2 right now but when i get paid next week i will give you the rest of the money and whatever you have spent on him i will give you also.” the nurses and doctors agreed to the hospital bill deal, more or less out of fear of this man but it got the job

Grace is a waitress at Star Cafe in Los Angeles California. She loves to work there because of the friendly customers and the occasional free food. She has been an employee of the month for 11 months in a row! She had just finished college at UCLA and is moving back to Seattle in a few days to be closer to her family. Grace dreadfully counted down the days until the move, but she knew moving to Seattle was the best choice for her family. It was two days until the move and Grace had one last day of work left. She woke up at exactly 5:45 am for her daily morning run. She put on her favorite workout attire and pulled her red hair into a ponytail. She didn’t have to work until 11 am so she decided she should run until 9. After she had showered and put her work clothes on, she went outside to wait for her best friend Madison to pick her up. Once she got to work, she made sure she said Hi to everyone and wish them a good day. She loved to put a smile on everyone’s face because seeing someone else happy always makes her happy.. Grace had about 3 hours of work left when she saw a young couple walk in. They sat at one of her tables and until it looked like they were comfortable, Grace walked over to take their drink orders. She had almost reached the table when the girl screamed at him,

Jack was still a day away from the farm and the girls, which was a good thing because he had just about eaten all of the food he had brought. He had one corn muffin and an apple left. As he was stopping on the side of the road to have his last lunch, he saw an old man hobbling up the road. “Howdy do, sir! Would you like to stop and share my lunch?” Because Jack was raised to be polite to the elderly. The old man, stopped and leaned on his walking stick to catch his breath. He looked like he was a hundred years old. “Thank you kindly son, I believe I will do just that. What brings you out on this long road on a beautiful day?” So Jack told him of his intentions to go win him a wife and the story the Tinker told about the rabbit. The old man was munching on his half of the muffin, and said, “You know, Jack, I might be able to help you there. You were kind enough to share your lunch so let me see what I can do.” He pulled out a worn knapsack, with stains and some mud on it, and reached deep down inside. He felt around, and frowned, and finally came out with a little wooden drill. It looked like the kind a carpenter would use to bore a hole in a plank or a tree, but it was carved from wood like a toy. It sure wouldn’t drill a hole in anything for real. But the old man leaned over to Jack and said, “Now this drill is special, it’s carved from a special tree. You just

As i walk down to the office with my locker’s handle in my hand I begin to think about what i will have to say. But before i can even start i’m there in the office. One of the secretary asked me “What do you need” and i replied with “My Locker broke,” as i held up the handle. “Ok” said secretary not looking up. “Take me to it to unlock it.” So i led her down to my

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It was the day I would get to sit by Aaron and enjoy a wonderful movie. With fright in me I looked through my closet and picked something simple out. A pair of Aeropostale skinny jeans and a cardigan. Aaron picked me up and he set off the day with a light and fluffy mood in the car. Talking softly and making me feel comfortable. We got there and being a gentlemen he paid for my ticket. “ Let's get some popcorn” He said. We got in line and he asked if I would like anything else. When a man with his date cuts us. Suddenly the atmosphere has darkened, Aaron's doughy eyes became sharp. He aggressively pushed them out of his way and said we were here first. The man said sorry we didn’t realize you were in line. Aaron says clearly you didn't like he was trying to pick a fight. The couple rolled their eyes and just kept to themselves. We awkwardly ordered and went to your seats, scared I wanted this date over as quickly as

Malvolio walked over to their table pretending to be a waiter. “ someone has bought you a drink sir” Malvolio said to Sir Toby. He was so drunk he could barely answer, all he did was take the drink. Malvolio started backing away until he was ten feet from the table. Just about 30 seconds later Sir Toby barfed on one of his friends face and the whole bar went silent all staring at Sir Toby’s table. Seconds later he barfed again on another one of his friends and he kept on barfing. He barfed all over the bar and then someone comes up and punches Sir Toby but he was to drunk and busy barfing to do anything. Malvolio Had left because a giant barfy riot had started in the bar. Malvolio could not help himself, he burst out with laughter. He was pleased with his work. The next day Sir Toby was the laughing stock of the town, everywhere he went all he heard were laughs. And he didn’t even know what happened. Malvolio had went back to the homeless shelter not knowing if he was happy or sad. He had gotten his revenge but it did not change that he was homeless, and he had nothing, no friends, no home, no money, he felt

When hiring employees or joining companies it could create an unexpected impact. When hiring the XYZ Construction Company it put me at potential liability if there were damages to the neighbors yards or even the whole entire neighborhood. With the accident occurring on behalf of Fred, it made me liable to Mr. Jones with his accident. This is because I allowed the company XYZ to come into the area in order to make a new addition to my house, with the assumption that no one would be injured the liability of some of his injuries would remain on my responsibility. As for Fred, this would greatly impact him even more than the case against me. Since Fred was operating the machine he is the main cause to Mr. Jones pain and suffering. He would be highly

I look at my pinky and scream in agony. The pain’s unbearable. Ms. Marks runs over to me. She asks, “Austin what happened, what’s wrong?” I scream in pain “Devin shut the door on my pinky!” Ms. Marks lifts my hand and inspects my pinky. She says, “It’s going to be okay, I’m going to call your mom right now.”

“Oh it's nothing” said the mayor. “No really what's wrong?, I must in insist.” “If you really must know, my daughter had just past from fighting cancer and my wife had left me last week for a man in America.” The dentist staggered. “I'm so sorry, I did not know your predicament.” “Here take this it has $200 in it for yesterday.” said the mayor. “Thanks” said

As I was trying to conceal my identity in hopes of getting out of a very, very long conversation with my boss, I ran into a pole, yes a pole, and guess who helped me up? My boss, which led to a conversation with him that lasted a record breaking forty-five minutes. When the conversation finally came to a close, I realized that I had lost her. But I didn’t give up hope, because I shad just seen her walk into a Rue21 store. So I ran across the street, and in the process nearly getting run over by a moped. Finally, I walked into the Rue21 store, just as she was about to walk out. I reached out, grabbed her arm, and said, “where’s my money!” Then, she said, “what money, I don’t have any money”! Say what? We both dissolved into a fit of laughter, and she said, “Hello Em, how are you”? I said, “I’m good, how about you”? She replied, “I am great, I’m spending some money I inherited from my aunt Gertrude.” In my head I was thinking, that makes so much more sense! After a moment, I added, “I’m glad you remembered the way we used to greet each other back in high school.” Laughing, she added “Yes, looking back, I always laugh at how silly that was!” “Do you want to get some coffee and have some time to chat”? I asked. In reply, she said, “I’d love to, but I have to go and be with my husband,

On June 7th, doing a normal work way, an employee by the name of John Schmidt was moving a piece of wood through a table saw. John was then injured doing this movement. Many factors are being

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There was a restaurant named Lilies and a coffee shop named the Barista in the complex. Coty was confined to a wheelchair and needed oxygen and a mask to breathe. When he felt up to it, he’d get someone to wheel him down to the Barista for a Red Bull and something sweet to eat. I remember one morning when the proprietor asked Coty how he was doing. Coty lifted his mask to speak and replied, “I’m