A Television Drama

It was a normal day, as Carolee was going along with her regular routine. As she was continuing her routine she heard sirens from the outside of her house. It was the time when school had finished and had though that all of the noise was from the kids returning to their homes from school. However, as she looked around she had noticed police officers standing around. For a minute, Carolee had thought that a murder had occurred but she thought again and realized that a murder could not have taken place during broad daylight. After looking out the window again, she noticed a man lying in her front lawn with blood covering his chest. She was not sure if she should help the man or not, however she could not leave her house because after listening to the radio, she found out that she could not leave her home. The radio also announced that the man had injured a police officer and had robbed a bank. When her husband arrived safely at home she was relieved and did not tell her husband what she had seen. Do you think Carolee should have told someone what she had seen?

A Handful of Dates

This story is told by the narrator, who is young oblivious boy. This young boy truly loves his grandfather and wishes to grow up to be just like him. The little boy compares his grandfather to god. The little boy continues to describe his relation between him and his father and claims that he his the most favorite from all of the grandchildren. The little boy looked up to his grandfather as if he was his father and would go almost everywhere grandfather went. However the young boy comes to realize that his grandfather is sneaky and can not be trusted. He finds this out when the merchants were evenly distributing the dates, although the grandfather took Masood's share of dates.

Crush

A girl was painting the kitvhen cupboards on a very hot summer day. She gets the job because of her father in the house. His name is Allen, the broad man and the father of the children she babysits. She has flashbacks of him throwing his children around in the water at the beach, teaching them how to swim. It is too hot so she unbuttons her blouse and takes it off. She wants to take of her bra, but she doesn't. Her mother tells her to be careful that Allen does not see her. The girl thinks maybe she wants him to see, but does not share this thought with her mother. Her mother decides to go downtown to get meat. She tells her to put on her blouse before leaving the house. Her mother tells her that Allen will be here soon with the bread. After the mother leaves, the girl takes out a tray of ice cubes. She takes the ice cubes from the glass and starts rubbing it on her skin, over her back and in between her breasts. She undoes the top button of her blouse and then the next and the next. She unfastens her bra, and slips it down over her arms. She sees the broad man coming closer to the house and runs to the front door. When she opens the door, there is no sound but the pace of his breathing, no movement but the startled rhythm of his eyes moving from her face to her warm bare skin and back again. Her mother’s voice hits the girl like an iceberg. She stands frozen knowing that she will be caught and will be punished. She picks up her bra, and the man runs to his truck, and safely gets in. Allen is worried that the girl’s mother thinks that he was on her too and is embarrassed and frightened that she will tell his wife. They talk and the girl has never given his one small clue that she was thinking in those terms. She's a good kid. He tries to hide that they would ever do anything in saying that she always hides herself behind a huge pile of books help up tight against her sweater. This was so that they don't get in trouble. He says that kids are just sometimes crazy. She was crazy. But he remembers her eyes and whatever it was they were saying, it had nothing to do with being crazy. She tells her that if she doesn't control it she will waste it bit by bit and there will be nothing left. There will be no young man, not to marry. They'll take it all from you, all of them, any of them because they can’t stop themselves from taking it. It’s their responsibly and their responsibility to not offer it.

I, Maureen

One sunny, fall afternoon a woman by the name Maureen saw a girl sitting in the oval shaped park near the St. Lawrence River. She was sitting on green grass, bent lovingly as though eternally over her guitar. Maureen perceived this when she was riving by on an errand for Mr. Massimo. When Maureen was 20 years old she started to feel lonely because she did not have a man to love. However one day Maureen met a man by the name of Denis which she shortly married a few years later. There children were beautiful as if they were drawn over and over again in many altitudes, all pure, among many Canadian settings. There relationship was going great and nothing could possibly ever split them apart. from each-other. One day Denis was out sailing and in passing under a bridge, the metal mast of the oat struck a live wire. his hand was on the mast and the voltage knocked him down. at that moment everyone thought that he was dead. As MAureen was Running in fear, a bunch of close relatives stopped her from rushing to him. It was shortly announced that Denis was dead. After receiving the horrific news, Maureen was devastated and attempted to kill herself on many occasions. She was forced to get professional help to get through this horrible death. Do you think that after receiving the help Maureen needs she will be the normal person she was before?

We All Begin in a Magazine

A family of four, live in a small coastal town. And in the summer when the town looks it's greatest and becomes popular with tourists, the mother looks in The Times to search for a new house to live in for the duration of the summer. The mother has been looking for a new house for three summers in a row. The first house that she has looked in was owned by an African man who built house in the poor parts of Africa. The second house that was found by the mother was owned by an architect where just about everything was done by a push of a button. The third time, it was a house owned by a couple which was in the middle of getting a divorce. Finally in June the she saw a an ad in the newspaper stating that there was a house available for three weeks and with reasonable rent. So the parents came to a conclusion that they will definitely rent that house. As the family of four was moving into the house, the kids were exploring each room. It was a large house that you could tell was being lived in. When the family was getting used to the house they were reviving many phone calls which became very irritating and annoying. The next day the family was woken up by the sound of the loud doorbell. It was a woman by the name of Ms Waters, a pale woman in her late forties and with thinning blonde hair. She was the editor of a popular magazine. The mother had recognized her from the magazine. Ms. Waters insisted on interviewing the mother for a television show on the "Brain Drain." the mother had then told Ms. Waters that she writes and publishes books as-well. Ms. Waters was very impressed and decided to give her a job position. The mother was extremely nervous when it came to meeting the camera crew and interviewer. Those two weeks went by rather quickly and when the taxi came to pick up the family to go back home the mother did not want to go. Would you want to go back home if you received a job offer like this?

The Sense Of An Ending

One hot, beautiful summer day, a young girl was walking her neighbor's dog through the city park. It was a golden retriever that enjoyed fighting with the swans at the city park. All of a sudden the dog started to loudly bark at the swan and got frustrated and refused to back off and suddenly started to attack. The golden retriever survived with only three legs, only two weeks later the dog was put to sleep. At that moment the little girl reminisced about her first loss in her life. She was sitting in the back of her dad's truck when she overheard her parents talking about Al Jolson's death. A famous writer who inspired many people. His death meant a lot to her mother who was saddened by this unfortunate event. When the girl reached high-school she was portrayed as the brainy girl in school, she loved to right and express her thoughts. She has always wanted to be a writer. By the time she reached twenty five years of age, she thought that all writers would die prematurely. She is now thirty years old and is a writer and will continue writing for the rest of her life. Will she continue being a writer after all of the deaths of many other writers?