Post #10: New Piece

POST #10: NEW PIECE-

This is my new original piece that I decided to write. During the year we did not get to a unit about poetry and I think it’s really fun to write. I’ve only written a few short poems in my life so I decided why not try one more. I was sitting at home, bored, not doing anything and I got an idea. There is so much to say about my long and happily successful journey through school, so I decided to write about it. Whenever I read poems, whenever they rhyme, I feel they are more fun to read. I thought and thought and tried hard to get each line to rhyme with each other. I had fun writing this and I hope it sounds alright.

The Long Journey

It was that very first time,

I walked in, was scared but it was fine.

The start of a long journey had begun,

I already wanted to be done.

All these little kids running around.

I didn’t see my mom, so I didn’t make a sound.

I wondered what I was doing there,

the stare on my face was quite bare.

The fifth grade had ended,

I was a big girl I pretended.

Year after year I started to grow up,

the teacher taught us to erupt.

Each year I learned so much,

now I feel like I got the touch.

To the middle school I went,

it was more difficult to an extent.

I met some very nice teachers,

and became a nice young creature.

The friends I started to make was my favorite part,

doing homework with them everyday was a start.

Three years went by,

We left middle school with a big goodbye.

The next step was High School,

excited to finally be “cool.”

We started out as the little freshman,

and with hard work,

became the big clerk.

Senior year began,

we were on our way to the big plan.

Graduation was our next step,

the hard work needed to show through much prep.

In less than a month,

walking the stage is my next fist pump.

The diploma in my hand will be well deserved,

without motivation and support it would have swerved.

Couldn’t be more happy than I am right now,

the journey has ended with a bow.

The next step gets harder and harder,

life is ahead, what a starter.

College is going to be a difficult time,

but with hard work, I’ll be prime.

The plan after college is to be an accountant,

The money is there to keep me from frowning.

Without friends and family I couldn’t do it,

A smile is on my face to show them, to prove it.

Post #9- Final revised flash fiction

This is my story, I always enjoy writing about mysterious things, houses are easy to describe with much detail and create an interesting story, so I went for it. It takes place in my neighborhood, although this story did not actually happen. My story is not long but I did have fun writing it, I totally changed the point of view from my first story, I hope it’s more interesting and has better character description and stuff now. My title is not very creative, and I don't feel as though my ending is very strong either. What do you think of my title, characters, and ending? Let me know, I'd love the feedback.

The House Next Door

The house next door was always a mystery. One day Sally and her friend Rich decided to go check it out. Sally was not such a brave soul but she was still young and loved to investigate. Rich on the other hand, loved to be around Sally, he was very brave and was risky as well. They walked by the house each and every day when they took their walk around the neighborhood but there has never been an ounce of sound or sight that has come out of it. Sally was too scared to go in it, but they both wanted to find out the situation so one day they decided that they may face their fears and barge in. Is that a good idea? Or is that rude? Is there anyone in there? Because if there is, that is going to be very awkward, and probably a tad bit scary. They still had no idea what to do. Rich is staying at Sally's house tonight, overnight, so they are going to talk it out then. They wondered if there is anything valuable in there. Lots of questions are running through their heads as they decide what they are going to do with the mysterious, still house. It has always been a mystery running through everyone’s heads that live nearby.

              Well, Sally and Rich had the sleepover last night together, and they talked it out. The situation is still undecided and Sally still does not have the guts to search the house, as much as they want to, especially Rich. They got up though in the middle of the night and took a walk in the dark, that scared them enough, that is why it was decided trying to investigate the house overnight was just not going to work out.  But you wouldn’t believe what happened, as they walked by this time, they heard the sound of a coyote howling in the backyard. They thought they had an idea of that being a sign of something related to the house but were not sure. This house grows older day after day, they wondered if one day it’s just going to fall down. They hoped not because before that happens they were definitely getting in there to see it.

             Well, they walked by the house again today and walked a little closer to it, and viewed little details about it to see what the outside was like. It looked as though it was made about fifty years ago, the sides of the house were made out of wood, the wood was blackened as though a fire may have gone down in the house one day. They were surprised that the house was still standing if that was the case. The roof had old wooden boards over it assuming the shingles that were on it were old and broken up. The door was the color black, and it had cob webs all over it, and the window looked like it had been cracked a little somehow. Sally was still to chicken to go inside, they wondered if the door was even unlocked because they didn't want to have to break down the door to get in. So they walked home and ate some pizza and began to discuss the situation. All they were told when they asked who lived at the house, was that an old lady used to live there years ago but nobody knew if anyone had moved in there since.

            But the night time came around again and they were together once again, it started to get more frequent, relationship wise, and they took another walk outside during the night because if Sally's mom found out, she wouldn't be happy, she didn't want them anywhere near that house, so they had to sneak out. They walked about a minute down the road and approached the house again. They finally decided to face their fears and discover the situation that no one else will find out for them. They walked up to the house, locked arms because Sally was terrified and went up to the door. It was very dark in the house. Rich grabbed the doorknob and started to turn it as slow as he could, the door was unlocked and they opened it very slowly and stepped in. The door creaked very loud when it was opened. They hoped nobody had heard it. He left the door open because if something happened or they got too scared, they wanted to just be able to run out. They started to look around but since it was dark they could not see anything. The first thing they noticed was the rusty, disgusting smell of a rotted out house.

              Sally then realized the only way they were going to be able to get around the house was with a flashlight. Rich brought a bag over but he was not sure if the flashlight got put in the bag or was left on the charger at home, sure enough Sally felt around the bag and it was there. She said the words thank god and turned it on and could not believe what they had seen. The house had many empty rooms in it and was very large. All the appliances looked as though they were made many, many years ago and had been used to death for ever. Everywhere they stepped they were walking around on dirt and dust and cob webs and spiders were even all over. Good thing they did not have a fear of nasty things. But they both wanted to just keep searching. They walked down the hallway downstairs and nothing impressed them but a run-down house. They both turned back and something white walked from room to room. Oh my god, Sally's heart started to race, they asked each other if either of them had seen what just went by and they both noticed something. They ran down the hallway to the room the creature entered. Rich flashed the flashlight in there and did not notice anything out of the ordinary. Does this house have ghosts living it, they looked at each other and questioned. "Maybe," Rich said. Well that was scary but they wanted to keep investigating. They realized that there were a set of stairs next to the door when they had walked in and so they figured they should go check them out, so they did. They started walking up them and the floor boards creaked and they just hoped they were not going to break on them. They got to the top and there was just one small bedroom with a closet in it up there. They entered into the bed room; there was a disgusting bed with no sheets or anything on it with a mouse running around on top of it, so gross. The closet door was closed, Rich opened it, and Sally screamed so loud.

You would not believe what was seen.
THE LADY LYING DEAD IN THE CLOSET.
How did she get there you ask?
They wish they knew.
That was an investigation for another day. 

Post: #8- Flash Fiction Revision

This is my story, I always enjoy writing about mysterious things, houses are easy to describe with much detail and create an interesting story, so I went for it. It takes place in my neighborhood, although this story did not actually happen. My story is not long but I did have fun writing it, I totally changed the point of view from my first story, I hope its more interesting and has better character description and stuff now. My title is not very creative, and I don't feel as though my ending is very strong either. What do you think of my title, characters, and ending? Let me know, I'd love the feedback.



The House Next Door

The house next door was always a mystery. One day Sally and her friend Rich decided to go check it out. Sally was not such a brave soul but she was still young and loved to investigate. Rich on the other hand loved to be around Sally, he was very brave and was risky as well. They walked by the house each and everyday when they took their walk around the neighbor hood but there has never been an ounce of sound or sight that has come out of it. Sally was to scared to go in it, but they both wanted to find out the situation so one day they decided that they may face their fears and barge in. Is that a good idea? Or is that rude? Is there anyone in there? Because if there is, that is going to be very awkward, and probably a tad bit scary. They still had no idea what to do. Rich  is staying at Sally's house tonight, overnight, so their gonna talk it out then. They wondered if there is anything valuable in there? Lots of questions are running through their heads as they decide what they are going to do with the mysterious, still house. It has always been a mystery running through everyones heads that live near by.

Well, Sally and Rich had the sleepover last night together, and they talked it out. The situation is still undecided and Sally still does not have the guts to search the house, as much as they want to, espiacally Rich. They got up though in the middle of the night and took a walk in the dark, that scared them enough, that is why it was decided trying to investigate the house overnight was just not going to workout.  But you wouldnt believe what happened, as they walked by this time, they heard the sound of a coyote howling in the backyard. They though they had an idea of that being a sign of something related to the house but were not sure. This house grows older day after day, they wondered if one day its just gonna fall down. They hoped not because before that happens they were definitely getting in there to see it.

Well, they walked by the house again today and walked a little closer to it, and viewed little details about it to see what the outside was like. It looked as though it was made about fifty years ago, the sides of the house were made out of wood, the wood was blackened as though a fire may have gone down in the house one day. They was surprised that the house was still standing if that was the case. The roof had old wooden boards over it assuming the shingles that were on it were old and broken up. The door was the color black, and it had cob webs all over it, and the window looked like it had been cracked a little somehow. Sally was still to chicken to go in, they wondered if the door was even unlocked because they didn't wanna have to break down the door to get in. So they walked home and ate some pizza and began to discuss the situation. All they were told when we asked who lived at the house, that an old lady used to live there years ago but nobody knew if anyone had moved in there since.

But the night time came around again and they were together once again, it started to get more frequent, relationship wise, and they took another walk outside during the night because if Sally's mom found out, she wouldn't be happy, she didn't want them anywhere near that house, so they had to sneak out. They walked about a minute down the road and approached the house again. They finally decided to face their fears and discover the situation that no one else will find out for them. They walked up to the house, locked arms because Sally was terrified and went up to the door. It was very dark in the house. Rich grabbed the door nob and started to turn it as slow as he could, the door was unlocked and they opened it very slowly and stepped in. The door creaked very loud when it was opened. They hoped nobody had heared it. He left the door open because if something happened or they got too scared, they wanted to just be able to run out. They started to look around but since it was dark they could not see anything. The first thing they noticed was the rusty, disgusting smell of a rotted out house.

Sally then realized the only way they were going to be able to get around the house was with a flashlight. Rich brought a bag over but he was not sure if the flashlight got put in the bag or was left on the charger at home, sure enough Sally felt around the bag and it was there. She said the words thank god and turned it on and could not believe what they had seen. The house had many emty rooms in it and was very large. All the appliances looked as though they were made many many years ago and had been used to death for ever. Everywhere they stepped they were walking around on dirt and dust and cob webs and spiders were even all over. Good thing they did not have a fear of nasty things. But they both wanted to just keep searching. They walked down the hallway downstairs and nothing impressed them but a run down house. They both turned back and something white walked from room to room. Oh my god, Sally's heart started to race, they asked each other if either of them had seen what just went by and they both noticed something. They ran down the hallway to the room the creature entered. Rich flashed the flashlight in there and did not notice anything out of the ordinary. Does this house have ghosts living it, they looked at each other and questioned. "Maybe," Rich said. Well that was scary but they wanted to keep investigating. They realized that there were a set of stairs next to the door when they had walked in and so they figured they should go check them out, so they did. They started walking up them and the floor boards creaked and they just hoped they were not going to break on them. They got to the top and there was just one small bedroom with a closet in it up there. They entered into the room, there was a disgusting bed with no sheets or anything on it with a mouse running around on top if it, so gross. The closet door was closed, Rich opened it, and Sally screamed so loud.

You would not believe what was seen.

THE LADY LYING DEAD IN THE CLOSET.

How did she get there you ask?

They wish they knew.

That was an investigation for another day. 

Post #7: Flash fiction- My fifth attempt

What was that you ask?

Okay, so it wasn't a dark and stormy night but...

That noise.

What was that you ask?

I wish I could tell you.

My friend and I were in the basement watching a movie one night.

The night was still young and just starting to get dark outside.

We sat close next to each other on the couch under a warm blanket.

We made some popcorn, and brought down some soda.

We sat down there and talked about life together for a couple hours.

It had finally reached midnight.

We decided that we should probably start the movie.

What movie we had picked out we had no idea.

All we knew was that it was supposed to be a horror film.

We decided to face our fears that night.

Was that a bad idea?

We hoped not.

We put the movie in the DVD player and hoped for the best.

The movie did not start playing.

I pulled it out to see if there were scratches on it.

No scratches so we couldn't imagine why it would not work.

I stuck it back in and tried again.

Pressed play and stop a million times.

No response.

This time though the television turned off.

"Weird" my friend said.

I totally agreed.

We then wondered if that meant something.

We hoped that did not mean anything bad.

I turned the TV back on and decided to just stick the movie in another thing.

The Ps2.

Used the controller and turned on the system.

The movie finally started playing its previews.

As time went on we finally reached the screen to hit play.

The movie was called "Whats under there?"

The movie started playing.

We snuggled up next to each other.

We were already scared and like two minutes into the movie haha.

We sat there watching the movie and screaming the whole time.

We really did not like horror films.

Who likes being freaked out during a movie anyways?

The film was halfway through and something odd happened.

That noise.

What was it?

Now my friend and I were reallllllly scared.

This movie is causing us problems.

Was the movie turning into real life?

Oh god, we hoped not.

What do we do?

We were terrified.

We just needed to know what was under the bed in the movie.

Could not stand it anymore.

Toooo scared.

Was the object under the couch we were on?

OMG.

That noise.

Do we go upstairs?

I heard noises up there too.

The floor was creaking.

A monster?

A robber?

A vampire?

WHAT!?

By now it was two hours later.

The house was haunted.

But who is making the noise? or what?

The movie finally ended, thank god.

But the noise was still continuing.

We pulled the blankets over our heads and shivered in fear.

Why am I scared of everything.

This is terrible.

Something just moved in the room. 

How, why, what was it!?

Okay we finally had to find out.

We had to.

We ran around screaming and something upstairs yelled something.

We did not hear what was said.

We run upstairs and scream some more.

Only to find out what the noise was.

My parents came home from being out over night.

And decided to scare us more than we already were.

You have no idea how mad we were.

Post #6: My forth attempt- Flash Fiction

The night was really cold; like one of those night that even the heaviest sweatshirt doesn't keep you from shivering. The one that you can see your breath in the night and your hands freeze if they leave the warmth of your pockets. I wished that he would just answer the stupid door, making me wait on his front porch was annoying and it was cold. The stars were shining at least, but his yellow front porch light made me feel like I was under speculation.
He was my best friend, but he was annoying. He opened the door and was holding the keys in his hands.
"Hey, are you ready?" he asked. I nodded my head. We went to his car and slid in. You have to slide into his car because the seats are so low that you pretty much are sitting on the ground. His seats are also leather, so its easy to slide. He starts the car and then plugs his phone in onto a play list. It is some sort of dubstep, his favorite kind of music but I don't really care. I am not listening to the music. If it was my choice we would just be sitting somewhere; talking and just joking around like we normally did.
But Chad was upset. I was leaving tomorrow and it was the night before I was leaving for Michigan. I wasn't going far but I knew he was upset. We had been best friends for so long, the closest friends.
He drove fast. Really fast. He always did. Speed was his drug, not the drug speed but just going fast. He loved driving his car, it was his way of relaxing, calming down, and just letting go of stress.
We drove around the winter country roads exploring the place we had these past four years in high school. We reached the top of the hill and all of a sudden he pulled over.
It shocked me.
He looked at me, and we talked for a long time just about life and everything else. We talked about college and we talked about music and the stars. Chad looked at me and I felt my heart break a little.
"It's not goodbye forever," he said knowing that I was about to cry. "You'll be back in a few weeks for Christmas break."
"I know, but its okay." I said. Moving away sucked. I did not want to go. Not at all. But I did. Chad drove me home that night and said goodbye. He hugged me tightly. The next day we packed all of our stuff into a moving truck and I shipped off to Michigan.

Post #5: My third attempt- flash fiction

Where Are We?

It was a hot day in the middle of July. The sun was shining bright in the sky, and kids were playing outside everywhere. I was not in the best of moods because playing outside in the sun with my friends is one of my favorite things to do and I had to work. Each and everyday I get up on the weekends bright and early, as early as I have to get up to go to school during the week, and get disappointed. Being a teenager, going to a job that makes little money is no fun. I wake up, sit up and think, wow its beautiful outside, call in sick or not? The thought runs through my head every Saturday and Sunday I have to work. I sit up and think why can't I just be done with college everyday so I can get up each morning and go to a job I will actually enjoy and make a decent amount of cash. But then I sit up for a few minutes and realize that is life. Life, one of the hardest things to deal with.

So it was that very morning, I finally decided to get out of bed after realizing that I only had to work for four hours, and that really wasn't that bad. So my friend picked me up at seven in the morning and we went off to work. I work at Michaels in Pittsford Plaza so it is normally not much of a drive. However, today we decided to take a different way to get there. Trying something new is always fun. So we got on the highway and drove off; we past a few exits and started noticing that we went to far but just kept going to see where we were gonna end up. I guessed at that point I was going to be late for work so I decided to call them, tell them I got lost and did not know when I was going to get there. They were not to happy about that but I am good about going to work so it is okay.

A couple exits later we decided to get off, at this point we were definitely lost and we had no idea where we were. It probably was not the best thing but we considered it an adventure. Going out driving different ways with a GPS was probably not the best idea, but it is what it is.

The exit we got off was definitely not one that would drop us in Pittsford, but oh well. The exit we got off was in some random town we had never heard of. We drove along and kept driving, the roads looked as though they were all back roads but we had no idea where they led to. We just kept chuggin' along and found a few small stores we had never heard of and a few run down houses but that was all. There were deer here and there and we hoped none of them ran in front of us because we had no idea where we were, let alone someone that could help us if we needed it. Hell, I don't even think a police could find us stuck in these weird area that nothing was.

As we were driving all of a sudden we started running into some strange things, snow started falling from the sky even though it was Spring time, there were Unicorns and weird animals all around, my friend and I looked at each other so weird and we decided this route we took led us to a whole new place, we felt like we were in a place we called Narnia, we could not believe it, this beats work any day. We kept moving along and finding the coolest things ever. But we got to a point that if we didn’t turn around there was no way we were going to be able to get back. So we turned around and it was a fun time trying to get back, another adventure that took hours but we followed our way back and got back to a place called home.

We looked at each other and said to each other that was awesome and we would do that again any day. Forget work. What an exciting day.

Post #4: Flash Fiction- My Second Attempt

The House Next Door

The house next door was always a mystery. One day my friend and I decided to go check it out. We walk by it each and everyday when we take our walk around the neighbor hood but there has never been an ounce of sound or sight come out of it. We are to scared to go in it, but want to find out the situation so one day we may face our fears and barge in. Is that a good idea? Or is that rude? Is there anyone in there? Because if there is, that is going to be very awkward, and probably a tad bit scary. So we still have no idea what to do. She is staying at my house tonight, overnight, so we'll talk it out then. I wonder if there is anything valuable in there? Lots of questions are running through our heads as we decide what we are going to do with this house. Like I said, its always been a mystery.

Well, my friend and I had a sleepover last night, and we talked it out, and still do not have the guts to search the house, as much as we want to. We got up though and took a walk in the dark, that scared us enough, that is why we decided trying to investigate the house overnight was just not going to workout.  But you wont believe this, as we walked by this time, we heard the sound of a coyote howling in the backyard. We might have an idea of that being a sign of something related to the house but we were not sure. This house grows older day after day, I wonder if one day its just gonna fall down. I hope not because before that happens we definitely need to see it.

Well, we walked by the house again today and walked a little closer to it, and viewed little details about it to see what the outside was like. It looks as though it was made about fifty years ago, the sides of the house were made out of wood, the wood was blackened as though a fire may have gone down in the house someday. I was surprised that the house was still standing if that was the case. The roof had old wooden boards over it assuming the shingles that were on it were old and broken up. The door was the color black, and it had cob webs all over it, and the window looked like it had been cracked a little somehow. We still were to chicken to go in, we wondered if the door was even unlocked because we didn't wanna have to break down the door to get in. So we walked home and ate some pizza and began to discuss the situation. All we were told when we asked who lived at the house, that an old lady used to live there years ago but nobody knew if anyone had moved in there since.

But the night time came around again and we were together once again and we took another walk outside during the night because if my mom found out, she wouldn't be happy, she didn't want us anywhere near that house, so we have to sneak out. We walked about a minute down the road and approached the house again. We finally decided to face our fears and discover the situation that no one else will find our for us. We walked up to the house, locked arms because we were terrified and went up to the door. It was very dark in the house. I grabbed the door nob and started to turn it as slow as I could, the door was unlocked and we opened it very slowly and stepped in. We left the door open because if something happened or we got to scared, we wanted to just be able to run out. We started to look around but since it was dark we could not see anything.

We then realized the only way we were going to be able to get around the house was with a flashlight. We brought a bag over but we weren't sure if the flashlight got put in the bag or was left on the charger at home, sure enough my friend felt her bag around the bag and it was there. We said the words thank god and turned it on and could not believe what we saw. The house had many rooms and it was very large. All the appliances looked like they were made many many years ago and had been used to death for ever. Everywhere we stepped we were walking around on dirt and dusts and cob webs and spiders were all over. Good thing we do not have a fear of nasty things. But we both wanted to just keep searching. We walked down the hallway downstairs and nothing impressed us but a run down house. We both turned back and something white walked from room to room. Oh my god our hearts started to race, we asked each other if either of us saw what just went by and we both did. We ran down the hallway to the room the creature entered. We flashed the flashlight in there and did not notice anything out of the ordinary. Does this house have ghosts living it, we looked at each other and questioned. Maybe, my friend said. Well that was scary but we wanted to keep searching. We realized that there were a set of stairs next to the door when we walked in and we figured we would go check those out, so we did. We started walking up them and the floor boards creaked and we just hoped they were not going to break on us. We got to the top and there was just one small bedroom with a closet in it up there. We walked into the room, there was a disgusting bed with no sheets or anything on it with a mouse running around on top if it, so gross. The closet door was closed, we opened it, and we screamed so loud.

You would not believe what we saw.

THE LADY LYING DEAD IN THE CLOSET.

How did she get there you ask?

We wish we knew.

That was an investigation for another day.