“Aimee, get out of the way!”
BANG!
Aimee collapsed, blood splattering on her mother’s face, her sapphire eyes widdening in pain, and landed in her father’s arms.
"AIM-"
BANG! BANG!
Both parents were never able to scream.
“Son of the Revolution” is an autobiography written by Liang Heng. Heng shares his firsthand account of growing up in a very telling era in China. Not only does Heng take us through the milestone events of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, but also through the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Anti-Rightist Campaign as well as the Socialist Education Campaign. Heng provides a look into these historical pillars in Chinese history in a way that the Golf and Overfield texts could only dream of. It’s a truly breathtaking account of events that are still being felt throughout the nation today.…
Realizing what was going on Angela says, “You’re going to stand over my mom’s bed with a gun pointed at me? Have you lost your mind? Shoot me!” (Fink, 2013, p. 207). Angela then waited for her mother to be evacuated.…
but she felt bad for her so she stayed. You find out that she doesn't care anymore. Her parents are in a fight. "The Parents are making threatening moises, turning dinner into a performance art, with dad doing his arnold Achwarzenegger imitation and Mom playing Glenn Close in one of her psycho roles.…
It was 4:13 am in East Oaks neighborhood in the City of Compton. The Wallace family was asleep until two Compton officers knock on their door and say, “Yolanda Brown open the door or we will be forced to break in”, said a Compton police officer. As she rushed to the door, she said, “Terrell wake up baby the cops are here, and get your little brother”. As she opens the door two police officers were armed with pistols she was horrified she asked, “What is going on?” , the officers replied, “step out the house right now!”. The officers slowly move into the house and search for Terrell, Ms.Brown’s oldest son, they find him and arrest him for possession of drugs and destructing property.…
"He's trying to kill me!".... "He tried to kill me," Mom sobbed. "Your father wants to watch me die." "I didn't push her," Dad protested. "I swear to God I didn't.…
In the book I’m Not Her by Janet Gurtler, the character Kristina finds out that she has cancer in her knee and her volleyball career is coming to an end. Her sister, Tess, is forced to keep the cancer a secret from everyone at school including Kristina's best friends. Meanwhile Kristina’s family is being faced with the most unexpected news to ever come their way. They have a very hard time coping with this situation and tend to become controlling on all the decisions that are to be made about Kristina's knee. Through Tess’ eyes, author Janet Gurtler explores how each member of Kristina’s family deals with the adversity created by her diagnosis.…
The show goes quiet and all I hear is my dad screaming from downstairs. I went downstairs and that’s when everything changed. I dashed back up the stairs to grab my phone. I pressed three digits into my phone as I bolted back down the stairs to the living room. There was so much screaming and crying from every direction as I was explaining to the dispatcher my mother’s condition.…
She got home safe but she has to walk stealthily so her family wouldn't wake up but, to late right beside the kitchen door was her mom. Her mom went straight to yelling Allie wasnt really listening she could only think about what she saw and if it was even real. Her mom finally stopped talking and Allie went up to her room.…
Birdie kicked at a stray rock with all her might, snarling with clenched teeth. It flew across the street, and disappeared into the passing crowd. Birdie sighed and ran a hand through her hair, her stomach folding in on itself. “I want to go home,” she moaned quietly, and Albert nudged her with a grin. “You want to go back to Kansas?…
The Extinction Have you heard how I got out of an aniline person that was on earth and help save 30,000 people well here it is. About fifty years ago, there live a person on earth named John he was an ordinary person till the day the war started. The war lasted 20 years and still rages on then he was caught, and put into slavery. The "new people"/aliens made us mine with wired tools that cut through the earth's crust like it was hot butter.…
I watched the roaring bulldozer demolish the last of my house. The last crunch snapped the final pieces and then they turned off the machine, and it fell silent. It had just hit me how different my life was going to be from then on. I was seven years old when my parents made the executive decision to tear down our old house and rebuild it from the ground up.…
Alessio’s POV I blinked in surprise at the sight before me “M-Mother?” I slurred, stumbling towards her with open arms. “You’re drunk,” She said nonchalantly and scrunched up her nose in disgust as I enveloped her into a tight embrace. Way to state the obvious. “You reek of alcohol!…
Pooja listened calmly, her parents sermons, but within her bosom it was only emitting lava, her expressions moving around to hot red as if she was dead serious to destroy everything coming in its way of life. Abruptly she stood up, much against the wishes of other family members and turned to go out of the bungalow, her mother accosted her up to the porch. While; at the porch Shubhalaxmi begged Pooja, “Please do not execute any such thing which will stain our image”.…
There was always the cabin. Always the darkness outside of it, the calendar on the wall, and the flickering bulb But some things do change. There were more of us once. Gumpaw and Gamgam for starters.…
Laura hung up her phone and took a sip of her coffee. “Dad not happy about the split, huh?” Laura jumped in her seat. “Shit…you nearly gave me a heart attack.”…