Spot: A Short Story

“Jackie, you can sometimes go a little overboard, so Carl is taking the wheel.” Carl continues. “Once upon a time” Jim screams. He rolls his eyes at Jim, “May I proceed,” He responds rhetorically. By the time Carl finishes the scary story, Jim has already dashed into the tent, startling his dog, a basset hound named Roxy. Carl and Jackie look at each other in regretful worry, walking towards Jim's tent. Opening the tents flap reveals Jim smothering his face into his pillow, crying. “Oh, I didn't mean to scare you with my story, Jim” apologized Carl.“It's just a story, Jim, there's nothing to be afraid of.” sneered Jackie, resting her hand on his shoulder. “Jackie! You know I don't like scary stories!” He cried, muffled by his pillow. “Hey, listen Jim, you can't

When joe got back from shopping for new shoes he had left them in the living room floor, that was a big mistake! In Traverse city Joe was getting ready to leave his house he went in the kitchen to get a snack, “but wait” he exclaimed in an agerily tone. Joe looked at his dog disappointed and dropped his cupcake, the dog had chewed up his favorite shoes! Hi mouth dropped and fell to the floor, there was pieces of the shoe all over and it was his brand new shoes.

Ernie has always been a little messed up, he has lived in Missouri for the 32 long years of his life. On the day that changed his life forever, November 22, 1996. Him and his family were driving to the mall and they got into an accident. His Mom and Dad both died and Ernie was very depressed. He got the notes, of what made the car accident happen, an inspection failure with the Engine. He did not know what to do with his life. He almost committed suicide, but then out of rage, the decided he was going to make the person who caused the car accident. He went searching for months, and finally came to the conclusion that the person that last assessed the car was Eddie Thompson.

This time Cosmo thought to himself, he would not be fooled, so Cosmo had gotten a toy blow up baseball bat of his room and went to hit “Timmy” with it only to find out it was his dog Chet Ubetcha. Chet Ubetcha quivered in fear. Cosmo thought he was crazy, he made himself food because he was still famished. After Cosmo had eaten, he heard a noise, ding dong, he then heard it again ding dong. He thought there was someone at the door, but then he thought there couldn’t be, not only was it after 9 o’clock, there town district has a curfew because of the current outbreak in toxic gases that can make you see things that aren’t there. To make sure there was no one at the door, he walked to the door, opened it and again it was Timmy. This time Cosmo wasn’t sure what to do, so he just shut the door. Cosmo then went back upstairs and went t bed hoping it was all a bad dream.

It was a bright sunny day when a boy came out to play, he had a funny name it was trey. His friends Alec and Fey played catch all morning long when they noticed a strange spotted thing. As they got closer it was a lonely little dog looking for food. Alex, Trey, and Fey brought it inside and fed it some steak they gave it some water and named the little dog spotter. Because the dog had little black spots. The next week they looked around but couldn't find the dog. They searched high and low all throughout their house but they could not find their new dog spotter. When they went outside to search they noticed they forgot to close their backyard gate. Alec and Fey cried, but Trey the oldest kept on looking for he knew he would find their new

And then, the fox huffed and puffed and nothing happened. He kept huffing and puffing, and not before long, he became dizzy. He couldn’t blow down the goddamn brick house down. What a stupid wolf, he could’ve just broke the door down. Anyways, the crummy wolf got really mad, but his brain couldn’t think of anything to do. Eventually the wolf tried to jump in through the chimney that was one helluva stupid decision. The 3 little Pigs put a pot in the chimney, and that idiot wolf jumped in.

The first time Bitty witnessed Jack succumb to his anxiety, that’s all he was; a witness.

One day Josh, the puppies, and Lucy were outside playing. Josh had to rush in the house for a phone call when his phone was ringing. He then here's Lucy barking very aggressively and rapid barks he has not heard from his dogs. When he goes back outside there are coyotes trying to get the puppies and Lucy. Lucy drives them away, but Josh still can’t find Cody or Rufus.

On the way there he was feeling pretty confident that he was going to win. When he got to the contest everyone was all over Clyde. "your gonna win Clyde you win at everything you do" said one of the girls around Clyde."good luck, your gonna need it" said Clyde to Cletus. "welcome to the 2015 Nashville eating contest" said the mayor, "We will give each contestant 55 hot dogs and some water the first one to finish wins,but if one of them throws up the other wins". Clyde knew he was going to lose and he would do anything to make sure he wins, so he put some poisoning to make people puke on Cletus's hot dogs when no one was looking.The mayor announced them, "and the most awesome man alive, CCCLLLYYYDDDEEE!"the crowed went crazy. "and his weird brother Cletus" said the Mayor. the crowd was silent, "get out of here fat boy" said someone in the crowd. Cletus and Clyde walked up to there hot

Catalina was playing outside the house with Pedro. She was a tall skinny girl, with ivy eyes and a small face. Pedro was a puppy of a german shepherd. They were running, chasing, tackling each other to get the branch. Pedro jumped off of Catalina, and started to run with the branch. “Hey no fair!”, yelled Catalina. She jumped up and started after him. “Catalina! Get Pedro, we are going to the market.”, said Mom. “ Ok, coming,” yelled Catalina,”. She ran over to where Pedro was and grabbed the bone and yelled,”Pedro come here and I win!“.”Arf” barked Pedro.

He sat pondering with stinging eyes outside in the frosty evening air. His head was throbbing with a migraine that carried his thoughts to darker times, times that made his heart burn. Times that now caused his lungs to only inhale, that suffocating feeling the feeling of deaths unbearable hug, the engulfment of pain. He had felt it many times before. The anxiety and stomach nausea was almost always with him though only he knew of it. This boy was fluid in the language of pain. For he had the scars the screams and the sorrow to prove it. Currently his lungs began to fail him only allowing an inhale of agony, no oxygen would be permitted to exit, because the panic would not allow it. His eyes begin to blur like they sometimes would and

Collective action is when action is taken together by a group of people whose goal is to enhance their status and achieve a common objective. Collective action would lead to harmony in Congress but unfortunately in the United States we see many collective action problems. Collective action problems are often known as the collective action dilemma. This a conflict between group goals and individual’s self-interest (Hayes, Lecture 2). Many collective action problems seen in Congress are due to the free access to goods and the free riding problem.

The activity that has help me grow most throughout my high school career is working for my dad at his oral surgery practice, Albright, Smith, & Peck. I started working there in June of 2015 and worked until August of 2015. Right away I began to learn what life was like outside of my small world. I had always been secluded in my life whether I was at school or at home. I never really got to see what Memphis was like outside of that. I started off just watching to see what happened in the office during week my first week and a half there. Starting the Thursday of my second week, I began to get more involved with the patients and actually get to talk to them. One of my main jobs in first few weeks was to help take the patients who had just woken up from anesthesia

“Accounting is the art recording of financial transactions plus storing, sorting, retrieving, summarizing, and presenting the information in various reports and analysis”

Steel snapped his fingers and his pitbull came running right behind us and she jumped on me and started to lick my face steel fell on the sidewalk laughing. Then he got up and grabbed her and lifted her on his shoulder and then sead “greecpit stop”.