The Pickle: A Short Story

THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew from the window. They didn't even see the boy. The strands of straw-colored hair seemed to be waving to him. Half an hour later a farmer stopped in a Ford pickup covered with a layer of dust. The boy clambered into the front seat. The farmer took

Once upon a time there was a hero named Dustin Pellerin and his job was to make people happy and unangry all the time. Everybody thanked him for it except one person. Captain Buttface and he made all the people angry and mad and sad, but Dustin would always make it alright. Now one day it was the perfect summer day and all the kids were having fun, but Captain Buttface was not having it. But Dustin pellerin was having fun and saw some kids crying and punching things this made Dustin very sad because he didn’t like any kids sad because he was a kid once. So he ask them what was wrong and they said captain Buttface made them upset. Dustin said “i'm sorry ill buy you an ice cream cone how about that”? The kids said “yes please” and Dustin said

Two people, a man and woman were walking slowly, turning to a corner at the bottom of a hill. Squirrels chased each other back and forth on the telephone wires. The mother took a cellophane bag off a loaf of bread, looked outside, glanced at the squirrel and said “poor little thing”. She turned the bag away from her hand and stuck the squirrel in it. She buried it while the boy blubbered the whole time.

On a, hot, humid, bright Sunday afternoon a high school couple are walking on the beach. Sweaty and unhappy about to melt, one is almost about to pass out. However it seems as if they need some help. They seem so sad so I whisper in his ear buy her Pepsi-Cola, buy her Pepsi-Cola, come on buy her Pepsi-Cola I promise you will make her happy Said Pepsi-Cola. The boy, confused about the little voice in his head, he decides to take her to buy a drink. What could I get you guys to drink? Said the waiter. The girl confused turned to him and said you choose so the guy told the waiter, Get me a bucket of the one and only drink that can make people wonderful, the one and only drink that can refresh people, the drink that will make her love me more two minutes later the waiter comes with a big smile on his face and a big bucket of Pepsi-Cola with ice and says here you go, the only and best drink that makes the lady’s happy

At the Wabash railroad tracks, as the drifters were coming in, grandma set out food for them. Then the sheriff finds out. She said, that she is a one-woman crime wave, and that she was running an unregistered soup kitchen, but Grandma said “Go look it up O.B., See if there is a law against feeding the hungry, but I have to tell you, you've talked so long, the evidence is all ate up.”

Tim Winton’s epic saga Cloudstreet chronicles the lives of two families, the Pickles and the Lambs. Set in Perth Western Australia and spanning twenty years from the 1940’s to 1960’s, the families endure great hardship: death and loss; poverty and illness. It is the experience of hardship which challenges who they are and the very nature of their existence and determines how they view and live life. Despite their different views ultimately the characters come to understand that misfortune is inevitable and that family, love and belonging are important in enduring suffering because in the end “that’s all there is.”

There once was a boy named leafy who loved riding his bike. one day he was riding around and out of nowhere he hit a penny on the ground while he was braking. It made the back tire slide out and he fell. When he got back up he noticed that the penny was face up. He put it in his pocket and kept riding. As he turned the corner to his house he heard a noise as he looked back before he could see it there was a crow chasing him. he pedaled as fast as he could then an ally came. he crossed without looking and BOOM! Leafy was hit by a car. Leafy died in the hospital the next day. The next Friday was his funeral. when they were done they got to carrying the coffin. when they were carrying the coffin they said they could hear something but they thought

She coughed. She was sick. She had the flu. She didn’t know how she caught it. She went to see the doctor. She didn’t like the clinic. The clinic was small and damp. There were always people waiting. She sat in the waiting room. Kids were running around. People were sitting next to her. They were coughing and sneezing. She was also coughing and sneezing, too. She felt terrible. She waited for hours. They finally called her name. She quickly went to the nurse. “The doctor will see you now”, the nurse said. She went into a small room. She sat down on a bed. The doctor walked in. “Hello, Susan,” the doctor said. She told him that she had the flu. The doctors checked her symptoms. He gave her prescription. “Feel better”, the doctor said. “Thank you, doctor”, she said.

Why would you live in a place called Tangerine where weird things happen where there’s a fire that never stops where lightning has a record of killing most people.Erik would get people to do things for him just so they can stay in the EFFD(Erik Fisher Football Dream). Erik has many secrets he hides from his parents deep dark secrets. Is Erik the kid you think he is Erik can be a very Evil kid inside hiding but around his parents he seems like he’s not a bad kid but they don’t know only Paul knows what Eriks true side is.

Piedad brought a work station activity to the table for Deyonnah to complete. She told her that they were going to sort. Deyonnah said, “Sure.” Ms. Piedad picked up a yellow popsicle stick and said, “Yellow.” Deyonnah tried to leave the table and said, “Why are you crying?” She began to cry and scream. She began to place color sticks into the cups. Ms. Piedad began to match colored popsicle sticks to the correct color cups. Deyonnah flopped to the ground. Ms. Piedad picked her up and placed Deyonnah on her lap. Deyonnah placed the popsicle sticks into the cups. “Stop,” Deyonnah yelled and flopped to the ground. “I cry, I done!” Ms. Piedad said, “You can do this!” Deyonnah began to sing while she worked. “Thank you, go bye” said Deyonnah. Ms. Piedad told her it was time to put the sticks away. Deyonnah began to place the sticks in the bag. One of the cups fell under the table. “Can you get the cup?” asked Ms. Piedad. Deyonnah flopped onto the ground and began to

Opal Buloni and her dad move too little ol' Naomi, Florida from little ol' Watley, Florida. She misses her friends, her home, and her mother who left her when she was a little girl. One day she decided to go to a store called Winn-Dixie, when she walks in, she sees a dog that just ran full speed and jump on top of the manger that works there, he starts screaming for help, people start looking at the dog on top of the manger. The manger yells who dog is this it’s quiet for a minute then “Opal says he is mine his name is Winn Dixie...” the manager said “get this dog of me”… Later that week she goes to the library and meets an old women name Miss Franny, then she starts talking to Opal about when she first got the library and they start talking

Dave decided to set up a Lemonade stand. He had seen other kids in, the neighborhood do it. It didn't seme that complicated. By the time he had made the sines and lemonade and brought it all out, the boy from across the street was sitting at his lemonade stand. The boys name was Mike. Mike glared at dave as he sat at his stand. Dave got an idea. A while later, he came out with a plate of hommade chocolate chip cookies. Mike stormed into his house. Later he came out with a plait of huge chocolate brownies. Dave crossed his arms, sneered, and went into his house. He came back with a tray of mini sandwiches. a family walking down the street stopped at Dave's stand. They bought to sandwiches and three glasses of lemonade. Then they walked across

I will never forget the day I choked on a tangerine. Remember 4th grade? It's just that grade that you kinda remember but at the same time kinda don’t. But it was still part of elementary school, and who didn’t love elementary school! People weren’t jerks, you got recess, and snack time, it was great! So as you can tell this story goes back to the 4th grade.

On a sunny afternoon at the school playground, Randle and Jim were playing on the monkey bars. Randle tried to skip a rung, missed it and fell to the ground. That fall resulted in a broken wrist. The very next day, Randle sat on the school bench with his arm in a cast and watched Jim play on the monkey bars. Suddenly Jim decides he is going to try to skip one of the bars. There’s no way he’d miss and fall too. Within seconds, Jim’s hand slips off the bar. Randle watched unable to protect his friend. As Jim begins to fall he tries to put his arms out to brace his fall and just as he hits the ground, pain shoots up his arm like an electric shock. In no time a doctor was putting a cast on Jim’s arm and told him he had to take it easy for 12

During the mid 18th century, it was more important to keep a good reputation within society than to show how one truly feels. When the interaction between the men start it is evident how angry and frustrated each of the men are, however they don't express these feelings towards one another. Instead of expressing their true feeling they end their dispute with a sword fight which, in this time period, is a socially acceptable way. In Tobias Smollett’s novel, The Adventures Of Peregrine Pickle, the interaction between Peregrine and Godfrey show how social decorum can suppress ones feelings to act upon natural instincts.