Waiting In My Life

Jacob walked out of his final exams and hopped town, climbing on the first train he could. He quickly found out that it was no ordinary train. It belonged to the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on

Get out of the car and try to push it off the track, if you cannot push it off the track get help. If the train is approaching get out of your vehicle and move far away from it.

Pg 12- “In the back bedroom he could hear trains passing. Lying beside him sleeping brother, he’d listen to the broad, low sound: faint, then rising, faint again, then high, beckoning whistles, then gone. The sound of it brought goose bumps. Lost in longing, Louie imagined himself on a train, rolling into country he couldn’t see, growing smaller and more distant until he disappeared.”

I glance over at the clock it reads 3 AM, my mind buzzing with stress makes me stay awake.My eyes dart around my bedroom, trying to find something to focus on and go to sleep. My mind runs over the long, boring conversations of the day and what I should have said at what specific time and keeps running on, the only thing breaking me from my stress filled thoughts is a sound unfamiliar to me. It sounded like a creak in the floorboards, which happen 24/7 but it still left me baffled.

“I thought I told you not to—ugh—never mind . . . . All right, fine, stay up there. But when the train pulls in you’d better be down here so we can meet up with him.”

Red light floods the room when the only exit opens. My heart stops, but I still stand up. I still stand up and march towards the guards here to escort me, and all the while I can feel my throat refusing to

and then looked at the train out of town. They asked themselves why three in

“Hello” I shout. “Anybody there” I yell into the darkness. My voice echoes far into the darkness of the world beyond. I don’t know where I am, and I don’t know who I am. Each day I sit here calling out into the dark hoping to see the light. I am trapped. I travel each and every hour searching for light or a means to escape this perilous abyss. I wait for the light to reappear each day, small slivers of light at first. But, eventually the bright gleaming rays of light pierce the abyss.

“Thank goodness! The train leaves soon! We have to go now,” exclaimed Rudolph, happier than ever. Audria packed up her stuff and snuck out the bedroom window with

lights on the train might be out. Even when the signs aren't flashing you are supposed to come

I panicked and started thinking of how I could get him out” says Jon, Kits ankle appeared to be caught under the rock and it was scary for him to think that there was a chance that a train could be coming. “I was scared but I knew my dad was smart and would help me get out before a train came” Kit says with confidence. Jon tried to pull Kit out from under the rock but Kit had been trapped in an awkward spot in which he could not escape. “I was starting to get worried that there was no time left” Jon says, as he could hear a train in the distance and started to panic. “As soon as I heard the tracks rumbling with the sound of a train I knew I had to do something fast. There was no time to run for help so my only option was to run to the train and make them stop before they reached Kit” Jon quotes. Jon ran down the tracks until he came to a fork in the road. Jon had to make a decision in which way to go to stop the train. He knew the train was coming from one of tracks and finally stopped the train in time. He could see the train coming and the distance and started jumping up and down, flailing his arms like a bird and fortunately the train saw him and stopped

As the train hit the brake run, the brakes tighten with impressive force and speed, bringing the train to a smooth stop. The combination of grace and power and its disorienting array of twists and turns is impressive.

I am first bombarded by worn down parents leaving the ground, carrying their children half swung over their shoulders as they scream relentlessly that they don't want to leave and want another ago on the ghost train, while tirelessly dragging the half awake 2 year old who lays behind, toddling along.

I started feeling confident as I waited in line. Finally the moment arrived where I took my seat on the coaster. At this point my anxiety and fear came rushing back all at once and my blood even seemed to boil. I realized though if I didn’t do this now I probably never would. So I pulled the bar over my stomach and tried not to puke.

few more stops, then I pressed the bell where I was meant to get off.