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    Makenzie's Short Story

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    warm May heat‚she spotted her good friend from high school‚ Ryan‚ dangling a fishing pole into the river. Because it had been a few years since she’d seen him‚ she made her way over

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    Illinois: A Short Story

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    plantation in Kentucky. Day after day I had been forced to endure working at this horrible place. Not anymore because I am going to finally escape. My friends all say that someday things will get better‚ but to me things won’t get better when nobody is willing to try. I am going to be that person who will change the thoughts of other people. Suddenly‚ I hear a shout behind me that brings me to the present. “Don’t let him leave! I don’t care if you have to kill him‚ but do… not… let… him… LEAVE

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    Antigone: A Short Story

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    struck me as odd until I remembered the events that had recently transpired. Quickly‚ I shook myself and turned away from the wall to a sight that made me gasp in awe. A line of people extended for what was at least a mile‚ winding their way over to the river that ran between this land and the underworld itself. I joined the queue and waited for my chance to cross the Styx. The second I hopped off the boat and onto the other bank‚ the land I had arrived at transformed. People bustled all around‚ most

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    The Deagle: A Short Story

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    scientist that will hopefully save wildlife as we know it. She and her Assistant ‚Dr. Skippy‚ are trying to create a mixture to save animals from bullets. So to keep this a secret she has a secret lab deep‚ right underground. She is testing it on two animals that people hunt all the time. The deer‚ and eagle.”Sure.” said Dr. Skippy. Dr. Scooter mixed the two mixtures and tested it on a little hamster. The hamster just died on the spot. She then stored the mixture away in a safe with the other mixtures

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    Preventing 9/11: Could it Have Been Done? September 11th‚ 2001: the American people will remember this day as the day the unthinkable happened: someone‚ or rather a group of people‚ infiltrated the seemingly impregnable American defenses and turned our own airplanes on us. Crashing several planes into different important federal buildings‚ these terrorists spread terror throughout the country. Nobody thought that the most powerful country in the world could be attacked so easily‚ and

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    A Stronger: A Short Story

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    ARE YOU CRYING‚ asked the Yeller with a look of anger and hate in his eyes. In all of the fear that Blur was feeling‚ she shook her head no as she had no other defense against this man other than the ability to deny what he was saying. It was so hard to not cry… WHY ARE YOU LYING TO ME?! NEVER LIE TO PEOPLE OF A HIGHER RANK! NEVER LIE TO ME OR ANYONE ELSE! I HOPE I AM UNDERSTOOD! BECAUSE YOU LIED‚ YOUR PUNISHMENT WILL BE FAR WORSE THAN WHAT IT WAS GOING TO BE! The Yeller looked at the children

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    Short Story: Nirvana

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    Nirvana. Lorelai didn’t know if she could handle another damn Nirvana song‚ it was driving her up the fucking wall at this point. Standing at the bottom of her stairs‚ she called up. "I’m gonna come up there and throw that damn thing out the window if you don’t stop!" Did her son hear her? Most likely. Did he listen? Not a chance in hell. She mumbled some shit about her ex-husband while walking back towards the kitchen. It was Colin who had bought the The Beats Pill speaker and Lorelai was almost

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    Laila's Short Story

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    Laila. She had lost her home due to a flood. She had no clue where to live now‚ but then she realized‚ she needed to build a house. She wandered to find a good place for her new house to be built. She wandered and wandered‚ but could not find a good place. It was evening and she finally found a nice place to build her new house. She tried to find sticks and straws to build her new house out of. She stayed up all night to build her new house. After it was built‚ she went out to find some food. She brought

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    I ambitiously decided that I would brighten the lives of the elderly by volunteering at a rest home‚ but discovered that the elderly were being neglected‚ shoved aside and forgotten. As I stepped into the home a pungent odor penetrated my nostrils‚ causing an instantaneous gagging reflex. The place was abounded with neglected and subdued inhabitants‚ yearning for attention. Anybody that passed them caused a sudden outburst of ranting. The negligence and disregard the home displayed appalled me‚ but

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    Gizmo: A Short Story

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    Do you have a Puppy? I do and his name is Gizmo. Getting Gizmo is one of the best things that ever happened to me. Here’s how it happened. It was near my birthday when I asked my parents if I could get a dog. Sadly‚ they said I wasn’t ready for a dog because I couldn’t take care of it. I was distraught because I had wanted a dog for as long could remember. A few days passed‚ and I had finally gotten over not getting a dog. I was chilling at my house watching tv‚ bored as ever ‚ until my mom came

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