The Scorpion Epilogue

Soon the moonlight illuminated the scenery. As I was standing on the balcony admiring the scenery something finally went wrong, a huge black cloud covered the moon. I soon heard the thunder. It seemed to be nothing to worry about, so I didn’t acknowledge it. A few hours later the thunder grew louder and I could see the flashes of lightning headed our way. I went inside to inform my parents of the weather, but they didn’t seem to worry about it much until the cloud was almost over the lodge. My family and I left the reception alone while everyone else stayed in cover; they were the smart ones I thought.

There was bright lightening. They looked up, frightened. Above them black furious clouds started to gather. They began to run. Then the thunder roared, and the rain came down in torrents. <<

Meanwhile, Amy Salinsky, Russ Thompson, Ron Thompson and I were walking through the towering jungle that was our backyard. Suddenly…. We see this monstrous machine with blades coming at us and we run away and Russ tells me twerp you better start running for the hills if you wanna live and Ron said bro stop being a jerk..The fierce wind scaring my sister Amy, and then Russ tells everyone to follow him and then knowing that we could die we run the opposite direction of this thing with monstrous blades. Then something or someone scared the thing away.

I ran up to my room and grab a piece of paper and pen and drew what I thought would be fun to use. From my room I heard Maddie screaming, "Water Park Party Princesses." Then I heard a big crash which sounded like glass.

BANG!!! It was towards the end second period when a huge clap of thunder startled my working students and I. “Ms. Smith” said one of my students eagerly said “are we going to leave school early because of the storm?” “Probably not,” I answered. “it wasn’t bad this morning. It’ll pass soon.” I made sure my voice was steady to hide my uncertainty. The news had said there was going to be a light rainstorm, it was probably just some rogue thunder.

Later on that day, I heard shouting and crying down the road a ways. I swung the door open and ran towards the commotion. My mind was running through the files of my brain thinking on what it could be. I finally thought of the worst situation

My other summer reading book was a fiction novel by Nancy Farmer called "The House of Scorpions". I choose this book based on a recommendation from a friend. I also choose this book because science-fiction is one of my favorite genres. I was overall pleased with this book and glad I gave it a shot. I read this books every night, just before I went to bed for about a week and a half. I would recommend this book to my classmates because it's an exciting but thought-provoking book. The book made me rethink topics of soul, identity, who we give power to, and human rights. The book was was well-paced with a great plot line.

The moon shone bright, but the dark long clouds blocked all light coming from above. Instead of the moon’s light shining on the Earth’s surface, lightning began to take its course and began to light up the sky. As the rain poured hard onto the roof of James’s house, lightning constantly struck along with the sound of thunder shortly following the flash. James’s room was very bright and it shone almost as bright as the lightning when Mike crept up along the side of the house. Picking up small pebbles and other objects, Mike tried to throw them at James’s window. He had a set of plans to scare the boys and this was only the first step. It took Mike several tries to try to scare the boys. It wasn’t until he saw them peek outside to see what was hitting the window thinking the thumps were just the rain. On James’s perspective, his room was filled with the music that was playing very loudly along with the squeaks the bed. The two boys were actually

The house of the Scorpion was a intriguing book, but had a very sluggish beginning so it was hard to read. It's mainly about a drug lord that owns the land of opium that is placed in the United states. To me there were a lot of slow parts and it felt like there were almost two parts of the book. Most of the slow parts were in the first part of the book when Matt was gradually figuring out everything and I just thought they didn't have to stretch it out so much. One half of the book is about Matt and what happens when he lives in the land of Opium. It goes on about how he got there and how he was treated and who were his friends and enemies. Additionally when he is there he learns about El Patron and his true intentions. Then the other half of the book is about Matt in Aztlan, which is like where Mexico is, and who he finds and what happens to him over there. The one thing I did like in this book was the characters and how different they were, Celia was Matt's care taker and the author gave her the homey feeling which was portrayed very well. The other character I really liked was Tam Lin, to me he became very well developed over time. There is many other characters though like Maria and Steven and Tom who all live in Opium. But to me overall the ending is what got me to like it most, so I am glad I held out till the end.

Somebody said, "My god!" and we all felt relief. We cheered and went about and shook each other's hands. And then the ground shock hit us hard, and the sound echoed off the hills back and forth for

I was like a tornado was happening everyone was every where and it was hard getting out out of it and so we were stuck there for a while and it was a wild house and you had to watch out for people and that day there was the most people there ever.So it was a intese game and when

I was born and raised in Durango, Mexico. The State known as the “land of the scorpions.” Scorpions are nocturnal creatures and are more active when it rains. As a kid, my grandparents raised and trained me to respect animals and especially scorpions. In Durango, scorpions form part of your everyday life; your activities and routines must to be performed in a way to avoid getting stung. Even before seeing a scorpion in real life, I remember seeing souvenirs and key chains with a dead scorpion. On a fresh night in the fall of 1992, I saw my first live scorpion. I was four years old at that time and certainly aware of their existence. As a child, I remember my grandfather enforcing me to wear my tennis shoes all day, and he would mad when I would

All of a sudden , I hear a groan and a creak, so close I question whether it comes from the show or not. My sister and I look at each other and question what we’ve heard. I feel my heart start to pump but convince it to return to normal. My mind races, I close my eyes and take a breath and I manage to shut it out. The fog that began to build, clouding my thoughts starts to lift.

We were taking down the wash, I had my hand on a clothespin, ready to pull it off the line when I heard a crack that sounded like the end of the world. Then I saw the old oak on fire, splitting in two, each side falling to the ground. My first thought was, At least it didn’t hit the cows. But then the cows all fell to the ground in one thunderous motion. Ma grabbed my arm, my hand still holding the pin on the line, and we just stayed that way, frozen.

Then we heard a siren ringing and everybody ran. The water was receding. Then a 100 foot wave was coming towards the shore. It flipped over a freighter boat and knocked over all the cargo. It sounded like 1000 trains colliding. Then the wave hit the shore and it got Tony and I. We were separated from each other. Then Max pulled me onto a car then I realized it was my Uncle’s car.