Creative Writing: In The Eyes Of The Misfit
In the Eyes of The Misfit A shirtless man wearing glasses is searched through an old pickup for an old time capsule that he had left long ago. He exited the car, and leaned on the hood of the old rusty old truck. The blood red sun was dying in the background behind him. Trees hover over him as giants. They protected him from the razor blade fragments of sunlight. One fragment of light found him through the thick foliage of trees, and landed home on his face. He raised his hand to the light as though he is going to catch it. As he did, he noticed a police cruiser approaching. He rolls over the hood, and sprawls to the ground beneath the archaic pick-up truck. There are leaves and dirt surrounding the man’s face, as though he is waiting
A Comparison Of Courage In Crane And Life Of A Slave Girl
879 Words | 4 PagesThe night was so intensely dark that I could see nothing. I raised the window very softly and jumped out. Large drops of rain were falling, and the darkness bewildered me. I dropped to my knees and breathed a short prayer to God for guidance and protection. I groped my way to the road and rushed towards the town with almost lightning speed” (Jacobs 554).
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
1493 Words | 6 PagesAs the 104th moves on from their real first test of battle, Stash is relieved he made it out of there alive. One thing for sure that this first battle taught him is always to be aware of what is around him. He told himself, just like in training, he can’t take his eye off anything from this point forward. He now knows this is real. There is no going back now.
Wilmington Friends Meeting Narrative
252 Words | 2 PagesThe car squealed to a stop and I jumped out of the dinged up vehicle. I ran on the cement ramp that led me down to the Wilmington Friends Meeting’s undercroft door like I would usually do on a Wednesday evening. Grasping the cold metal vertical bar in my baseball sized fists, right over the left. I yanked, then again and again as the door clanked repeatedly. Realizing the door was locked I twirled around.
Flannery O Connor's Narrative Fiction
452 Words | 2 Pages“Is this on”, Connor said while cleaning the dusty lens. “Day 5 in this deserted wasteland. It’s been 30 days since the tragedy.” Connor looked around finding for food. In the distance he saw a tree or what’s left of it.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
199 Words | 1 PagesDear Mother, It’s has been indisputable here in the trenches, I’m in dire need of new socks. The doctors say they might have to amputate my foot if my trench foot gets any worse. Also if you could provide me with some next time you send me a package I would be beholden to you. In addition to the already gruesome situation, the rats have begun to eat the dead in no man’s land, and steal my bread when I’m not looking.
Creative Writing: All Quiet On The Western Front
171 Words | 1 PagesThe man looked onto the battlefield close and far as the dirt landed and slid off his face the sound of bombs were muffled the cries of men were sharp and penetrating he stood over the breech with such comfort while a hundred thousand fear riddled eyes stared from behind he turned his face deep wrickled and rugged filthy his eyes with dark bags underneath from nights with no sleep but the faces he saw were much different men no more than 30 with their whole lives maybe not even 10 minutes ahead of them he's seen it a hundred times before he knew these men were divided they were there together but they were going in it alone with this in mind the man stared back and spoke "At the edge of our hope... At the end of our time... WE CHOOSE TO BELIEVE
Creative Writing: A Hero's Journey
487 Words | 2 PagesAnother day was so much like the one before, and the many before that. He walked the house and grounds, slowly, letting time pass as it must. Alone, present but not present, for can one truly be there if no one knows of it? Like the saying he’d heard more than once over the unmeasured time of his existence: If a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? He ambled through the back yard, pausing under the tree from which he’d been hanged, cursing his tormentors, vowing to haunt them for all time.
9/11 Short Stories
956 Words | 4 PagesThere’s a young man laying in bed, who tries to fall asleep however is unable to; knowing that when he finally falls asleep — the soon subcumming nightmares will once again haunt his somber slumber. Tonight, no different than any other, the restless mind of the teenager is unable to bring calmness to his mind, he sits up from his bed. Friskly walking down the stairs, he slips on a white t-shirt, and plugs his iPod headphones in his ears. Iron Maiden’s flash of the blade, starts to play as he walks out the front door and starts to wander down the street, through the small neighborhood. He realizes he has no sense of destination or direction; he just aimlessly traverses the sidewalk is not paying attention to where he’s going, escaping
Creative Writing: Things Fall Apart
839 Words | 4 PagesIt was about to be midnight and Bilbo was cold and wet from the river. Bilbo found a fire in a nearby village and sat down next to it to get warm and dry. The village looked like any normal village. The houses were made out of mud and hay and there were huge farms. Suddenly, a girl came by and saw some trail of drippings.
Creative Writing: A Separate Peace
2589 Words | 11 PagesHe looks at me solemnly "Any girl of your age would have been broken by now. And not just on the inside." "Any boy your age would've been hiding under a bed by now. " I retort with a sickly grin. "I highly doubt that, but perhaps some are already in hiding."
A Hero's Journey Into The Wild
774 Words | 4 PagesHe only knew two things. Close behind there was danger and forward lied the unknown. Ahead a light began to push it’s way through the foliage. As he ran, the light became closer.
Greasy Lake Character Analysis
948 Words | 4 PagesWhile he stands to look at the greasy character in the dirt, he envisions headlines, pitted faces of police interrogators, the glow of handcuffs, clank of metal bars, and the big black windows rising from the back of the cell (Boyle). Convinced that he had murdered a man in cold blood, the protagonist is dragged back to reality, and he knows there will be repercussions. Nonetheless, his remorse is momentary as they all spot the half- naked woman that was with the bad character. Like animals, they pounce on her with the intention of raping her. However, before they could do anything to her, a car pulls over, and they are all caught in the headlights.
Creative Writing: The Black Death
541 Words | 3 PagesThe Black Death “Clara! roared The Doctor. Hold on!” “I am! ” replied Clara irritated. “What’s up old girl?
Behaviorism In William Stafford's Traveling Through The Dark
972 Words | 4 PagesEver had a mental “fork in the road?” Of course you have. We all have those tough decisions to make at times. William Stafford’s “Traveling Through the Dark” is about one of those very instances. But there’s more to it than meets the eye.
Creative Writing: The Epoch Of The Invisible Man
1377 Words | 6 PagesYou have been amazingly energetic and clever,” this letter ran, “through what you stand to gain by it I cannot imagine. You are against me. For a whole day you have chased me; you have tried to rob me of a night’s rest. But I have had food in spite of you, I have slept in spite of you, and the game is only beginning. The game is only beginning.
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