Short Story

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest, integrated health care system in the United States of America. It is a hierarchical organization led by a secretary, multiple undersecretaries, and three reporting subordinate administrations. The VA is responsible for managing health care, benefits, and services to the almost 20 million veterans of the armed forces.

Walking out of the bathroom, she picked up the sweater she’d worn yesterday, and slipped it on, gently pulling her long blonde hair out from underneath the back of the sweater.

At the bottom of the stairs, she turned to the left and went nearly to the end of a long, stone hallway, small rooms dug into the walls. She walked into the living quarters of her family and smiled. They'd gotten one of the biggest rooms, since her father was helping on the company's project here in the Sahara.

He turned and started to walk away, turned back toward her and stepped forward again

Ian ran upstairs to take a five minute shower, and quickly dressed in a blue and black plaid shirt with some khaki shorts. He attempted to fix his hair, it was a little damp, but there wasn't time to properly dry it, so it was fine.

She dried herself off, toweling off her hair before wrapping the towel around herself. Grabbing her brush off of her counter, she went to her bedroom to search her closet. It wouldn’t take her long to get dressed; she already knew what she wanted to wear. She had an emerald green dress that cut off at her knees and showed off her figure without giving too much away. She brushed her hair as she pushed back all of her work clothes to reach the small collection of dresses she owned.

"My dear child, let them do their jobs. You must come now, if you stay like that any longer blood will surely stain your costume." With that she was whisked away by the Madame and found that they had gone to the lounge for the performers.

Stumbling out of bed, she turned on the coffee pot before going to the shower. Afterwards dressing in a low cut, red top and tight denim jeans

Moving away from the glass, she began to rummage through her minimal luggage in search of something more ideal to travel in. She, eventually, settled for a simple white blouse, a waist-high brown skirt, and matching boots. After dressing, she rolled her unruly curls into a simple updo which formed a halo around her head despite the cold. Once she felt composed and properly arranged, she repacked her luggage and closed the brown cases before slipping into her fur coat and exiting the room.

Undeviating from his usual schedule, he headed for a quick shower after his morning’s jog, his dirtied clothing folded neatly to a side before entering the steaming shower. A few short minutes later, he made his way over to the spacious kitchen, a towel still wrapped around his wet hair.

“I’ll have 6 eggs, a big glass of orange juice, a banana, and some oatmeal please” said DeSean “ You’re one crazy kid” said the female bartender at IHop. “Yes ma’am, I might be crazy ,but ready for football this morning” DeSean responded swiftly. The bartender responded almost immediately saying “Damn right, hope you do well this morning, I’ll have that food out real quick honey”. DeSean waited for less than 5 minutes before chowing down on over 1000 calories. He exchanged some words with the bartender and he was off to football.

The sick queen looked up at her lady in waiting and nodded," Good. Now leave us." A few other ladies in the room curtsied and left the room immediately. " Dear cousin come sit.

Fleeter loaded his things into his sack, and got his weapons ready to be brought along.

*Muscular Power - *Agility - Agility may impact *Mental Imagery/ Mental Preparation - *Speed - Speed is something that may affect performance as Netball is a fast paced sport, with the majority of players constantly moving around the court. If you are on the slower side, then it is easier for opposing players to quickly maneuver themselves around you and have already passed the ball to someone else. *Physique/ Body Type - The ideal body type for Netball is someone in between an ectomorph and mesomorph. For someone on attack and defence that does not shoot would want to be on the shorter side and agile. To move away from players For someone who shoots they would want to be on the longer limbed side and stronger.

The smattering of rain on the roof overhead calms me, beating out an irregular rhythm like an anxious child unconsciously tapping his foot. The dim glow of my phone screen washes over me as I wait for the light to return, cut off by the flash flood inducing rain. I look around, and sigh; yet again, the lights on the ceiling are blank, leaving me with nothing to shield myself from the impending darkness.