Gerard Bryar: A Short Story

“Come into the dining nook and meet the other participants,” she says as if we had a choice to come to the Cleansing Sessions. We walk into the so-called “dining nook”. Twenty-Nine other participants turn their heads and stare at me. “Now that you are here we shall eat,” Mayor Victoria says. I guess I was the last person to arrive.

Cause Paine. folios 5,979 of volume XVIII). During the day of the military coup on September 11, 1973, Christian drove to the police headquarter the family car Datsun 1500 color green, loaded with food from the Bavaria factory "because officials there were having a potluck. I was invited to stay in the place until the next day," he said. In that place were last seen the majority of the missing peasants of Paine.

I am in fine health, I get stouter every day, the army seems to agree with me. If I improve as I have been doing I will look somewhat like a man by the time I come home again. I have been interrupted twice since I commenced this letter, once to go on battalion drill and the second time to go on dress parade. I guess I will get to close it now. We have not been payed yet except 13 dollars that we were payed while at Greensburg.

By the time the Marines get the weapons, they’ll be outfitted with a bunch of fancy gadgets, making them heavier, but more appealing to the eye. Soldiers who want to go to harder more challenging options can join the ranks of the airborne, which requires you to complete a three-week course in parachuting. Army soldiers have the opportunity to join the Ranger regiment, and if you’re an infantry soldier you can compete for Special Forces selection. Both of these military branches serve to protect this great nation, and are the ones to be called upon in time of trouble. I am not trying to take anything away from the other, but the Army has more fields of specialties.

As I walk out of my tent, I head to my friends to see what was going on. Our cook, Garvit Gupta, was making pancakes on the troop’s griddle. My friend Luke who was in charge of the trip told had already sent scouts down to search for firewood. Now they were back at the campsite asking Luke to come down with them. Instead, Luke told me to go down.

We had been rotating men in and out of the fight all day in order to prevent fatigue, personally I was rotated out after the waves of medes and was rotated back in right before the wave of immortals. The second day of the battle was similar to the first day, they attacked and we defended still only suffering minimal casualties. On the third day our spears were broken, we only had swords left but we were surrounded by thousands of archers. We were surrounded without spears, Thousands of enemies were still ahead and we had no hope of survival. The Persians fired all of their arrows at us, we tried to repel them but there were too many arrows to block.

Most male citizens wore cowboy hats and there were hitching posts that were used regularly in front of the grocery store, cafe, dry goods store, tavern and post office. The commercial center of town was limited to the east side of Highway 30. The speed limit, which few drivers acknowledged, was thirty-five on the two-lane highway that bisected the town without so much as a stoplight. Haines had no mail delivery so we walked, drove, or rode a horse or a bicycle to the post office to get our mail from a little box with a window and a combination lock dial on its face. There were dozens of these little boxes on one wall of the post office lobby, the wall that split the building down the middle.

I have always had extenuating circumstances that have put things before an investment in myself. I have decided that it is finally time to make me and my education the priority. When I was in high school my parents separated and I needed to work. I didn’t get to participate in many clubs and groups and limited my time to school; Wrestling witch had a four hour practice every day plus matches and tournaments, and working forty hours a week. My education suffered as a result.

The first move is always hardest I suppose. When we had to move from D.C., after I just started to fit in, was next. The feeling was indescribable, but still nothing compared to the first. Moving is probably one of the biggest impacts on peoples life. It makes them leave literally everything behind.

One of the scariest days of my life was the day I brought my first child, Noah home. I can remember getting home and feeling like I had no idea what I was doing. I was exhausted, sore, and scared out of my mind. I remember everyone telling me you just know what to do when you become a mother, but here I was with this little person, and I felt completely lost. I wasn’t able to get breast feeding down, I could’t stop the crying, and I felt the saddest I had ever felt in my whole entire life.

We all knew that it was 2 hours from my uncles in Shirley to the company drop point where the camper manufacturing drivers drop the campers in Goshen. Once it had been about 2 hours we were about a half hour out from what the Garmin said and we started chatting

February 26 I went into the surgery room, frightened of something going wrong. It was a rough two weeks, harder than any conditioning or the flu I have ever had. The pain was unbearable. With every move of my hip, ankle or knee came a sharp pain, bringing tears to my eyes and me calling for my mom. Soon came therapy;The most boring and uncomfortable thing someone could experience.

First I went to Publix to get water and canned food that can last for a while just in case I don 't get a chance to get food after the storm. Next I went to my garage and got the shutters. It took me hours to put them up alone and by the time I finished doing this the storm was a day away. I then went to home depot and got batteries, flashlights, a radio, a generator, and bought a raft just in case. I later took my car and went to the gas station that had a huge line.

At about 8:30 p.m. we finally loaded all the animals onto the trailer and headed out for Springfield. Then came the two hour drive. When we made it there we then had to unload all the animals where they belonged and park the trailer. Finally, at about three in the morning we made it to our hotel rooms.