The Bayou Short Story

A faint scream is heard across the murky swamp. It was young boys in the swamp that had lived there for many years people say that if your encounter the little boy that you will be cursed and can never leave this spooky swamp. How do I know this? I know this because I have been running from him for years in this swamp it’s like he’s my own shadow.

She realized the winds were getting too strong to tie herself to a tree so she began to dig a burrow. As she was digging a young Indian boy named Oats Tiger met her. He too was looking for shelter. He quickly joined her in digging, but the rains began to come down hard and washed it away. They found a

Alex had never gone pheasant hunting before. He had shot rabbits and pigeons with his air rifle at his grandfathers farm before. Alex’s grandfather walked over and pointed out how to load ammo and then said, “This is the safety it should only be off if you are aimed at ur target and want to pull the trigger.” Alex looked at him with determine. They started walking out in the field.

Bill’s collapsed and unconscious body lay crumpled in the darkness of the thicket. “It 's almost too easy,” chuckles the cheetah. The cheetah approaches the wounded Mel and kneels down on his right knee to observe his next few meals. He lugs Mel over onto his back, looking over him with hungry eyes. He holds his single claw up to his throat, ready to suck the life from him.

Mr John teaches zebra how to do art with his injured body parts which slowly grows strength into his injured

I made another trap when he left right by quicksand. It was called the Burmese Tiger pit. Zaroff then came looking for me with his dogs, and the trap got his best dog. Then I ran a little bit further, and Zaroff was getting a little nervous that I might win. So Zaroff got Ivan to help, and I made a Uganda Knife trap.

One Day Carnesious decided to swim to Chuna and back with a 30 pound rock on his back. When he started he thought it was going to be easy. When he was half way there he started to sink but something Really weird happened. The water had formed a wave and he was floating on top of it. His mom new that he would not die, but when he came home she was amazed.

The Aboriginal man was not like the other Aboriginals from the Darug tribe, he left the traditional

Stop!”, but Jesús can’t hear him so José has to run up to him in the 100 degree weather. “Wait!” “Why, what happened?” Jesús asks. “I stopped for a moment and found a walking stick, but you wouldn’t wait and I had to run up here”, “We don’t have time for a stick, and we’ll stop just ahead, at the tree.

Macomber has volunteered to come to the camp in order to kill animals for pleasure and to better his shot for his own game hunting purposes. Aristotle believes that courage is not something that you learn by habit, when Macomber is first scared by the lion his instincts are to run and not face what is coming at him. “Macomber had not thought how the lion felt as he got out of the car. He only knew his hands were shaking and as he walking away from the car it was almost impossible for him to make his legs move (pg15).” By the end of the story once he is betrayed by his wife he is able to muster up the courage to kill a buffalo, but it is only after he fails and

He slammed against the trunk of the tree and opened his eyes to realise that he was now hanging upside down with one leg caught on a branch. Tyson then realized that it was his the bottom of the right leg of his pants that had been punctured by the stump of a broken branch. The other boys were at the base of the tree laughing hysterically at his predicament. When they came around, Luke climbs up just high enough to reach Tyson and was trying to pull him down, which did not work. Will tried pulling his friend away from the tree in an attempt to shake the stump loose from Tyson’s pants, but the stump wouldn’t move and neither would Tyson’s

You my dear are headed to a better place.” A better place? Where is my family? Why am I strapped down? “Where are we going?”

"Alec Ramsay and Black Minx are out in front, five lengths ahead, AND THEY ARE UNDER THE WIRE!" the radio in the barn blared. I had just finished jumping my palomino "Above the Clouds" but I call him Cloud for short. Blackwater Ranch was owned by the Leigh's but they were at a horse show, so I was watching the ranch for them. I took my hunt seat saddle off Cloud's back then removed the saddle pad and set it out to dry.

On October 3, 1974, at around 10:45 pm, Elton Hymon and Leslie Wright of the Memphis Police Department were responding to a “prowler on the inside” call. They made the scene and observed a woman in the house next to the intended home of the call. She was standing on her front porch pointing at the house. She advised that she had heard glass breaking and someone was breaking into the house next door. As Wright showed both officers on the scene on his radio to dispatch, Hymon went to the rear of the house.

Be Brave. Remember that bravery is not the lack of fear but the ability to move forward in spite of fear. “Rikki-Tikki had sprung, jumped on the snake’s back,dropped his head far between his forelegs, bitten as high up the back as he could get hold, and rolled away.” Rikki-Tikki did that even though he wasn’t sure he would have done it right if he would die or not. The theme of the fictional story Rikki-Tikki-Tavi by Rudyard Kipling is that you would do anything for the people you love.