The Four Packs: A Short Story

“Jackie, you can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continues. “Once upon a time” Jim screams. He rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl and Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, walking towards Jim's tent. Opening the tents flap reveals Jim smothering his face into his pillow, crying. “Oh, I didn't mean to scare you with my story, Jim” apologized Carl.“It's just a story, Jim, there's nothing to be afraid of.” sneered Jackie, resting her hand on his shoulder. “Jackie! You know I don't like scary stories!” He cried, muffled by his pillow. “Hey, listen Jim, you can't

The men had come into Glensberg to find Arthurs's Uncle who, they were told, was assisting his wife with the shopping. The men hadn't seen him yet - but there was no rush. The magpie was singing, nothing else mattered at all at this moment; that, and the tiny, little girl with the ruby hair who was sitting with her father - both enchanted by the melodic singings of the birds.

When Bird’s mom attempts to justify planting clues in Bird’s life to lead him to her, the author describes Bird’s reaction as follows: “The understanding seeps into him like a

However, after a thorough analysis on both the story and its contents, it is revealed to have both a darker connotation to it and to also be a metaphor for Birdie. For instance, the following line; “the dust, she flew into the wrong man’s eye”(p.27), alludes to the reader that the uncle (“wrong man”(p.27)), had viewed Bernice as not a niece, but rather a means of self “gratifications”. In addition, the phrase “you are always bodderin’ me...”(p.27), further reinforces the idea that the uncle and Bernice both shared a strained and unhealthy relationship. Consequently, due to the unfavorable conditions Birdie was subjected to, Bernice had undergone a radical change as demonstrated by the line; “he turned [t]hat dust into an [o]wl.”(p.27). Akin to the “owl”(p.27) in the short story, the emotional trauma she had sustained had led to her to burn her uncle and his house.

“When she asked how I was, I lied, I told her every thing was fine and Bobbi had stopped in the day before. I felt bad, but why did it matter when I was heading home anyway (S.A. Bodeen 17).” Robbi was a girl who had grown up on a humble island labeled Midway, but every year in june she would visit her aunt AJ, who lived in Honolulu. This year AJ had to cut her time with Robbi short as she had to attend a spontaneous business trip. AJ had planned on her peer Bobbi to check in on Robbi periodically as Robbi would be staying another week at her aunt's alone. The night AJ had left Robbie went on a walk down the street to a popular McDonald’s, on her way back she found herself nearly kidnapped as she sprinted back to her aunt's apartment

“Oh I see where we took a wrong turn,” Kelley sighed with relief, “We have to take a right and then go straight all the way to that bridge.” They began walking, all relieved that they found a way out of the sticky situation that they were in. “I see our mom,” Will announced as they walked up towards their mom. Finally they reached Kelley and Will’s mom, “Why do you all look so nervous and sweaty?” Their mom questioned. All four of them laughed, “Just a bit nervous from the rides,” Makayla stuttered with an uneasy look on her face. Kelley and Will’s mom just looked at them and replied with, “Alright well it’s about 3 o’clock now, we have about four to five hours left before we need to leave so when it is 6:30 come and meet me back here and then we can leave.” Kelley nodded in agreement and laughed, “Yes ma'am.” Several hours passed by and it was now time for these four crazy teens to get going, “I’m so glad we found that map,” Kristin stated as her and Will walked out the exit gate. “Me too, I don’t know what we would of done without that map,” he whispered

Stacy don’t open the door." Timmy whispered in a frightened voice. "I won't sweetheart I wont." As I pushed my back against the wall broken glass had splattered above my head and all over me. As soon as I felt the strange man grabbing my hair I stood up, away from the dangerous guy. "What do you want? Don’t hurt these innocent children!" As I yelled in a tone that I had never yelled in before, the threatening man opened the door. As soon as I noticed he had opened the door I stood in front of the children's desk with my hands held apart one to the left, as one to the right. "Please stop!" I yelled in a frightened voice. "Move out the way lady!" As the perilous man pushed me to the side he picked up the desk. Sarah still curled up in a ball. I noticed him picking her up. "Mrs. Stacy please don’t let him take me! Stop I don’t like you dad!" I was in shocked to hear Sarah's words coming out of her mouth. "Don’t come near me lady!" As Sarah's dad was about to leave the room I threw a chair at her dad's back. "Put her down I said!" As I shouted to him, he had left me unconscious there sitting on the

Every body was happy in the house and Lanie rushed toward the door to open it for them and see which roosters have survived. When Lanie saw the roosters clearly she yelped with excitement saying that Jimmy’s rooster and her rooster had survived the attack. They fed the roosters some food and got them warm. The roosters were allowed to sleep in the basement until their father comes back home and fixes the rooster

“If you don’t come now, I’m running away and I’m taking frankenbean with me.” pressing send Grayson waited patiently for a reply, knowing that frankenbean was both of the girls teddy bear they had been sharing since they were 1 day old. As the minutes passed and the minute turned into hours everything started to feel like it was crashing down on her once more. Walking around the room Grayson ignored with her parents came to bring her food, she ignored when Derek and Savannah came to see if she’d watch hank. She ignored when (Ian) came to bring her, her paycheck from the last time she worked. She ignored when her father came back hours later to get to come out of her room. It was like couldn’t be around anymore, but she wanted her sister more than anything. Grabbing Frankenbean off the nightstand next to her bed she dressed him in a little pink tutu and a coat. Making a fake little sign it read “Bye Bye Kota.” taking a picture she sent it to Dakota’s phone knowing her sister was getting the messages 45 minutes had passed and still no reply “Kota!!! PLEASSSSE I need you!!!!” Grayson texted back once again wishing that her sister would just answer her. It had been a hard couple of days all she needed was for her sister to come and bring her good news. To bring her something in hopes that Grayson could stop living in fear that the man that did this to her would come back to finish the job. It was like Grayson was now just this job that everyone had to do because he had been a victim of a crime that she still couldn’t say. Even though she didn’t remember what happened to her she knew that it was bad. “I’m not joking, kota! Please answer me. I need you.” Grayson pleaded once more as tears began to well up in her eyes once more. Hearing the knock on her door she froze knowing that it was her parents again wanting her to eat something. But Grayson wasn’t hungry she wasn't anyone

The sounds of the birds was unpleasant, it was endless cries and screeches. As I looked around, I realized that I was just in a plane crash in the middle of the Amazon jungle. Immediately a panicking thought was in my head, Dakota, Mark, Leo, where are you!. A small voice came from the other side of the plane wreck, it was Leo and Mark, “ where’s Dakota, Mark had a horrid look on his face, “I- I don’t know I thought he was with you or something” “ look!” said Leo he’s over there, “ what where” said Mark and Trent under the that sheet of metal, they swiftly went over and pulled him out under the metal. “Hi guys you found me”, “of course we did said Leo, can you stand up through”, “yes just grab my arm”. They slowly lifted him up. “ now what? Said Mark”, Grape all the supplies we you can said Trent”. As they moved around picking anything they could use, they all dropped the items into a pile. Duct Tape, a hunting knife kit, a fire starter, little food, and a flare gun. “Come on we need to get moving, if you want to get help” said

"Um... Excuse me…?" Chris asked. "Oh... Sorry..." Heli stated rather coldly, her voice low, almost like a whisper “Chris I trust you with everything but you know someone is threatening of killing me...I got messages on my phone and letters at home and someone is taking my pictures and telling me the upcoming celebration of my dad’s company, will be my last day… and I didn't even tell Rogers because he says not to worry...” quipped Heli. Chris’s eyes were vivid as he bowed his head in shock. “Should I stand for her or not?” he asked himself. He flashbacked his thoughts for a moment and speculated how badly love has broken him. As he was gazing in her eyes, he whispered to himself “My desires and my love all can be achieved with hope because my Grandpa always have taught me since the day he adopted me to Destroy what destroys you”. It was just birds chirping voices in the air as bell rang for another

I had taught him to run, swim, climb trees, and even to fight. In Winter, not much progress was made, but the summer of 1918 was blighted. However, eventually, the clove of seasons came and Doodle was too far behind to go to school. It was Saturday around noon, a few days before school started, when we heard that strange croaking noise. Up in the bleeding tree, perched precariously, was a scarlet ibis. The red bird had tried to flutter, but failed, tumbling down through the limbs of the bleeding tree and landed on the ground with a thud. I remember all of us standing around the broken vase of red flowers, awed by it’s exotic beauty. Doodle had been very fond of the scarlet ibis, it had seemed. He would not eat as often, and he even buried the ibis himself, next to the petunia

As soon as we were there I noticed Hailey was crying. “What if we never see them again, what will we do?” “she asked. “Well we are gonna have to hope that their okay and we’ll have to go undercover.” “Okay, Jayden” she said trying to wipe her tears. “The next city we see we’ll have to get supplies. Do you have any money?” “None” “neither do I, then we're gonna have to steal them” “Steal!” Hailey said a little too loudly “We’re already fugitives, it won’t make a difference, and it’ll be easier cause of our powers” “Okay” Hailey said “what are your powers” “I’ll tell you mine if you tell me yours” Hailey took a deep breath and said “I have the power to turn into any animal I want to” “Okay mine is that I can turn into certain substances like water or fire.” “Okay” Hailey said quietly “what do we do now?’’ It’s getting late so we better take a rest and move on to the next city which is what?” “It’s Lakeside about 2 ½ miles from here” Hailey said, “I saw it on the way here” “Great that’s where we’ll head, but now let’s get some rest we got a long journey ahead of us.” “Okay” Hailey replied yawningly. Next thing she was asleep on a patch of grass. I stayed awake for a while longer and thought about how different it would’ve been different if I never had these forsaken powers I could’ve had a family. But, now I’m a fugitive and one of the keys to take the Western Republic down. I would not stop until they for taking everything from me. Well, Now Hailey and I have a quest and no matter the hardships we will succeed. “Hey check over here I hear something” Well, looks like I’ll have to stop here or I won’t be able to complete

Ashton was visiting for a weekend, it was only him. Calum had to stay back and look for Michael, as he had ran off again. I hugged Ashton and looked at him. Ashton got in my car and smiled. I hugged him tightly. “It’s been too long!” I yell and he laugs. “I like the hair, you changed it up a bit since the last time I saw you.” He greeted me, I smiled and shook my hair. I had dyed it blonde and brown. I decided I need a change. “How’s Tate?” Ashton looked at me while I was driving. “He’s on edge because of the baby, but he’s good. Brooklyn?” I smiled and he chuckled. “She’s 4 months,” It was all he needed to say. “You guys are having another fucking baby! Oh my gosh!” I squealed as my car came to a stop. Ashton blushed and felt my stomach. I felt her kicking. “Do you know yet?” He asked and I

I’m just a volunteer and I not sure what to look for.” I sighted and just agreed. Ok I’ll wait. Man, at this rate, I’ll never get caught up with my school work. I guess I can’t blame them, is not their fault I am behind with my work. I thought to myself. While I was waiting, my wife was calling me on the phone. I really was thinking not answer the call, but she would just keep calling. Hello. “Did you pick that up?” I’m on my way right now. “That was an hour ago, and Tristan wants you to take him to practice tonight” What! I can’t, I have work to do. Why can’t you take him?” “Sir, my supervisor is back, do you want to talk to her?” Yes, thank you I told the young girl. I have to call you back. Wow! She keeps putting more wood in the fire! She can’t see the pressure I’m under and the importance of this paper. “Hi, I am checking on the status on a missing report for two lost German Shepherds, could you check to see if they are here?” “I’m sorry, but we do not have any German Shepherds here.” “Can I just check, just to get this off my mind? Sure, you are welcome to look around”. “Thank You” I said to