Category Archives: Writer’s Notebook

Jan 15 2014

Lockdown

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         The stormy clouds have come together and started to snow. At first it started with a few flakes and made a crescendo to fifty flakes at a time filling up the yard with sixty inches of snow. It felt like it was raining really cold fluff that splattered the ground with snow.
         We were at school while the snow kept falling. Lockdown was more like it. Everyone cuddled in their jackets and friends. They were cuddling but they were not talking so there was nothing but an eery silence throughout the halls.
         Gazing out to see when they could go home, the students all found that the cars were buried in white fluff. There was nothing but white fluff outside. It was as if all of the school grounds were deserted with white fluff and everything inside of them.
         It was dark and cold inside. The power had gone out because of all the snow. I could feel the dead, cold breeze from outside.
         “Noo!”, someone howled into the intercom.
         Everyone stirred uncomfortably as they heard the message, clear throughout the hallways.
          The next sound that came from the intercom proved that we had heard right.
           There was a gunshot.
Nov 15 2013

Details

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The T.V. Is on. “Glee” is running and they are singing “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey. I can hear my mom cooking something that is making a steaming sound. I see my dad on the laptop doing work or watching a movie in the living room.

I finally get to my room. There are books lying everywhere; starting from TX history to science. My dirty clothes up on top of the left side of my dresser. The blanket is in a huge hump and going off the bed as if someone had ransacked it.

I feel the humpy paint of the wall on my hand as I go down the stairs. There are black marks on the wall around it are from when furniture had scratched the wall. They are there also because sometimes when I am carrying something downstairs.

Nov 5 2013

Rain

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We were driving home from a party at 11:00 in the night. In the car was my sister, my mom, my friend, and me. We start going down 360 when BAM! The rain hits us in a wave.

It is impossible to see anything outside even though the wipers were on full speed. I almost felt the crystal droplets of water coming through the ceiling and on to me.

Then, all of a sudden, there was a big flash of light that blinded us so much my mom had to hit the brakes. My friend was afraid of lightning so she kept screaming whenever she saw a flash.

Then, the thunder starts rolling in with another big BAM! Our car turns into total chaos as I try to calm my friend, my sister is trying to help my mom see where she is going, and my mom not being able to see where to drive. But we finally get home and everything is all right again.

Sep 6 2013

Favorite Quotes

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“In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.”

– Bill Cosby

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

-Winston Churchill

” Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”

– Dalai Lama

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

– Mahatma Gandhi

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”

– Steve Martin