Short Story

Alex Stevenson

Hour 2

The Man

                A long time ago there was a man who had no feelings inside his head.  He spent most of his days sitting on his front porch step watching the people walk by his house.  Many people when they walked by didn’t even look towards this guys house.  Most of them ended up walking faster as they went by, or they decided to never go that way again in their life.  This man who no one even knew because no ever talked to him had done some excruciating things in his life that any normal person would never do or even think about doing. 

                Across the street and down a few houses there was a home for sale and this man has been watching this house very carefully because he wanted to see if this could be his next victim.  People have been living in this neighborhood for a little while and then they would move because of this man who ended up murdering a person while they were living there.  The way he finds his next victims to kill is by watching their daily routines, and by watching the house to see what goes on inside and outside.  At night is when he goes to the house and looks through the window and watches them.  His latest victim, who lived by him, lived in the house that was for sale down the street.  He stocked this women for two weeks, and then finally made his move to attack her and kidnap her.  By sneaking through the window that she left open that night he got into the females house and went straight to the room in which she slept in at night.  Standing at the bottom of her bed, he pulls her legs as hard as he could to rip her off the bed.  Right when he pulls her leg, she wakes up screaming so loud that neighbors could hear ten houses down the street.  But when she fell off the bed the screaming stopped.  He pulled her so hard and she hit the ground so hard that she was knocked out from the blow to the head.  Throwing her over his shoulder, he walks out the front door like nothing ever happened there.  Walking back to his house with the women on his shoulder he takes her to his basement to put her through a cruel and unusual punishment that will probably end up killing her.  In the basement of his house, it looked like a torture chamber and it looked like this person was sick and disgusting. 

                After about a week of watching this house that is for sale and no one is buying it, he sees another single women come up to the door to greet the seller.  They start off with a casual handshake to greet each other.  She enters the home and she takes a tour with the guy selling the house, it took the two of them an hour and a half to tour the entire house.  The man sitting on his front porch step sees the front door open again and this time he sees her open her purse.  She pulls out her wallet and writes the man a check for the house.  The man watching the house sees this and is blown away and can’t wait to find out if this will be his next victim or not?  Within a week the single women his moved in the house and is just doing some minor things to the house to her liking.  As this is going on the man just down the street is watching all of this go down and is getting a good feeling inside of him about this women.  He knows inside of him that this woman is a piece of cake and he will have no problems with her.  Inside his head right now he has this entire plan already planned out, and usually this would take at least another month longer to make a plan and watch their habits. 

                This women living in her own home now and is completely settled in her home.  Now taking walks in the evening hour to explore the neighborhood and maybe even say hello to some of her new neighbors that she now has.  And this one day she walked by this man’s house that sits outside on his front porch step all the time.  None of her neighbors told her that this man has murdered many people who live around here and that this man is a complete psycho.  As she walks by the house, she says hello and the man saw her face, and his jaw just dropped to the floor because this was the prettiest woman she has ever seen in her life.  He couldn’t even respond back to her because he felt different inside and he has never felt like this before.  The lady looked at him and then saw that this man wasn’t going to say anything back and just walked away.  As soon as she was out of sight and around the corner where he couldn’t see her, he got out of his chair and went into his house.  He sat down at the table and thought of a way to get into her house at night to get rid of her.  As the woman returned to her home after her walk, the man waited a little bit for her to get ready for bed.  His plan was to sneak around the house to find out the best place to get through a window and into her house.  The very first window that he came up to was wide open and if he really wanted to he could have hopped right into the window and into her house.  But he thought to himself that if he was to do this?  How would he bring her back to his house?  But instead he decided to go right back to her house and wait just a couple more days so that she will be settled in her house and more comfortable with the neighbors. 

                The next day the single women came outside again, from where the man was sitting it looked like she was going to go for another walk throughout the neighborhood.  But instead she was heading straight for my house!  I quickly grabbed my knife that I had in my back pocket and when she got close to my house I was ready to attack her to get rid of her for good.  As she gets closer and closer to me I start to get even more nervous around her.  The very first thing she says to me is “hello there, my name is Sandy.  What is your name?”  And my response to what she just said was blank.  I couldn’t even think of what to say back to her, she took my breath away and this was the first time that has happened to me.  Finally I had a word that came out of my mouth, “I want to marry you!”  That was the only thing I could think of when I was standing in front of her.  As soon as I said that I thought to myself I am the biggest fool of all time and this lady is going to start to laugh right in front of me.  Her response after me making a fool of myself was, “I don’t really know you that well.”  As the days go by and the women keeps coming by my house to talk about anything, I start to open up more to her and talk about things in my past.  A month passes and then I pop the question to her, “will you marry me?”  It took her a while for her to respond and thank the lord she said yes!  I was probably one of the happiest mans alive!  We both found love and we lived happily the rest of our lives.

Feedback on creative writing

Some things that i found really good about this class is that it was really good that the class was in a computor lab and that helps. I thought the poem unit was really good, and helped a lot for other classes when i needed to make a poem. I liked how you let us do our own thing for the short story unit and with very few limitations. I liked the writing before the class started and how each different day had a different thing to write about. I thought that the lyrics thing was really cool to do because i listened to music that i have never heard before anywhere. And this shows what type of music people like in the class.

Some things i found that needs work on is by cutting back on the poem unit and then spending a little more time on the short story unit. I think that the ten minutes of writing is just a little to long because i usually start to run out of things to say when im wrting. In the writing before class i think that the jounal entries should be a little more different each day, and not the same thing or close to the same thing. Maybe grade the poems instead of walking around the class room.  

Daily journal

My worst experience while in a restaurant is when i was in Florida, and my family, my grandparents and me were spending a week and a half in Disney World. One night we decided to go this 50's restaurant, this place was very small but yet it still packed a lot of people. So we ended up sitting down at a table that could fit all eight of us and our waiter came up to the table. He took our drink orders and then when he came back to the table with our drinks, he noticed that my elbows were on the table. He asked me what on earth were my elbows doing on the table? I didn't want to respond because this man was very big and it would be very bad to make him mad. I ended up taking my elbows immediately off the table, but then i forgot that he didn't like that and i put them back on the table. He saw them and yelled at me again for having them on the table. After he left i decided that this is going to be a game, me being the dumb little boy that i was kept putting them on and off the table. After a while of this game he asked me to leave the table with him, i had no idea where he was going to take me. And just around the corner he stopped me and took his belt off. Right there i started to cry my eyes out and he ended up telling me that he was joking the entire time. So i returned to the table crying and from there i hated that man.

Daily journal

If i were to open up a restaurant here soon the name of it would be, Stevey Steves Steak House. This would be a reataurant similar to outback steak house. The food that we would sell would be ever steak there is out there, ribs, and a couple different burgers. The outside of the restaurant would be a cartoon picture of me, and then the inside of the restaurant would be a nicer but yet a casual setting. There would be a lot of tv's inside there so people could watch different shows or sports games. Then there would be a special part of the restaurant that has a bar in the back for people to drink at. What makes my restaurant different is that people grill there own steaks there, that way they can make it to how they want there steaks. Some of the people that are working there are me and then Stu Daly is the evening manager. Stu is a great guy to manage at the night because he knows a lot about steak.

Sci fi story

2111                                                     

            There I am, freezing in this cold cube.  I have no idea where I could possibly be at right now.  I start to break the ice that is around me with my body, there must be at least a foot of ice around me.  My shoulders can’t take much more of running into the sides of this ice cube, they are starting to bleed and I need to get out of this cube before I freeze to death!  Then all of a sudden one more run at the cube and crash!!  The ice broke open and I was free from this ice cube.  Now all I have to do is find some people to find out where I am and what year it is in right now.  I realize that I am in a cave because there is a little tunnel out of here and I could just barely see a little poke of light at the end if this tunnel.  As soon as I reach the end of it I look outside and it is so bright that I have to close my eyes and return back into the tunnel for a couple more minutes, that way my eyes will adjust to the light. 

            I believe it is the year 2111, all my research over the years I have a good idea what time of year it is.  I’m living on my own in a house; there is no one left that I know of.  There are people out there but not my kind of race, there some sort of zombie looking people.  I captured two of these zombie looking people and I have them locked my basement where I am doing research on them to see how they function.  My research has shown that they don’t like the sunlight at all and when they do go into the sun light their skin ends up burning.  These people feed off human bodies for their blood, and when they do get attacked they end up dying and then turning into some other sort of monster.  My daily ritual that I have to do every day is to wake up with me and my two dogs that I found stranded, take the both of them for a walk through the town.  And on my way back home I stop at the video store to pick up a movie.  The town is very bare, there are cars stranded on the sides of the roads and all of the roads are cracked with weeds and grass coming up through it.  Every building is stranded and nothing left in them, it almost looks like everyone just got up and left all of their things here and took off.  When I get back home I make me some breakfast for my dogs and me, we typically eat a lot of canned food that way we can save the food that we don’t have that much of.  Some days I have to fix my house so that these monsters looking things can’t get into my house while I am sleeping.  I have gone to the library to get some books on stars because that way I can tell when the sun will go down.  These monsters usually come out as soon as the sun goes down, and that is when I want to be locked in my house away from everyone else.  I usually set a timer to know that the sun will be gone in fifteen minutes.    

It’s been thirty days that I have been living on my own and it is very lonely, many times I find myself doing nothing and looking off into space.  Every day I broadcast on the radio to see if anyone is out there to meet me at the docks at noon every day.  I have a feeling that there are more people out there, it’s just I believe they are scared to come out of where they are.  My recent encounter with the monster was probably one of the worst ones I have had.  They wanted to rip my head off by using two ropes and tie them to my head.  My goal is to try and find out an antidote that will help these creatures go back to normal and maybe even calm them down a little.  In order for me to figure this out I need to somehow find out where these creatures stay during the day.  To do this I must make a trap during the day, that way when they do come out at night hopefully one of them will go over the trap and be captured.  I need some different blood samples to help me find the correct antidote, and if I put the wrong antidote in the body then the monster looking thing will go into an attack kind of mode. 

Day 50, I am still living alone with my dogs and there is still no one that has come out of hiding.  I’m thinking of leaving here and traveling to a different place around this town or go to a different state.  According to my maps that I have found throughout the city I am in the southern state of Florida.  The only bad part of me traveling to a different state is that I don’t know what is out there and if these kind of creatures are out there too in that place.  Even though I have the ammo to take down all of these creatures, I just don’t want to risk my life traveling to some place I don’t know and stay in my home where I know I’m safe.

I decided to travel into a different state to find out if there is other civilization out there in the world.  On my way out of this insane town I ran across some of these creatures going across the road, I quickly shut all my lights off hoping that they didn’t see me.  Unfortunately I was caught by the head of the creatures, he quickly turned to where my lights turned off and I then turned all of my bright lights on went straight for him.  Accelerating as fast as my truck could go, I reached to one hundred miles an hour and then the truck and the body collided with a force so big the earth shook a little bit.  As soon as the truck finally fell back to the ground I realized that my truck had more damage than the body, then the creature popped his head over the hood of my car and I couldn’t tell if there was something wrong with him but it didn’t look like it.  So I then quickly stepped on the gas once again and went over top of him, except this time I just kept on going and not turning around.  As I turned over my shoulder to see if any of them were following me, I saw one of my dogs had gotten bitten by one of the creatures and I didn’t even know it.  I slammed on my brakes, didn’t even care if they caught up to me, I just wanted to make sure that my dog was ok and wasn’t going to die. Unfortunately my dog had multiple bites in his lower leg and in one of my studies showed that a side effect would be a loss of hair rapidly.  In the back of my truck I had to kill my own dog with my bare hands right in front of me, this is one of the hardest things that I have ever had to do before in my life.  Thank god I had another dog to be able to see every day.  I have been traveling for about seven hours now and it is light outside and none of the creatures were following me because they can’t be in the sunlight.  I am not sure what state I am in now but I still think that I am in Florida somewhere.  I brought most of my canned food with me in the back of my truck and some of my equipment that helped me broadcast on the radio, and I plan on doing the same in the next town I plan on staying in.

I found an apartment that is in really good condition and it is very high off the ground to where these creatures wouldn’t be able to see me.  My first day alone I spent on the radio saying

“If there is anyone out there, meet me at the point at noon. I will be there every day.”

Two days later I was at my point and I saw three people walking towards me, it looked like to me that there were two kids and a mom.  I wasn’t taking any chances with this so I pulled my gun up till they got closer, that way if they weren’t human I was ready if they were to attack me.  Thank god that there was nothing wrong with these people and I’m glad that they were able to survive this outbreak.  So we quickly left out of there and went straight back to my apartment that was completely secure from anything if it were to come.  We all sat down and I asked them some questions like.

“How did you make it through this time?”  “What were there names?” Just some basic questions to get to know them better.  The mother told me that we need to get out of this town as fast as we can because she said that there were other people here that weren’t like us in any way.  So the rest of the day we spent our time looking at different maps to see how to get out of here as fast as possible.  The kids were watching different movies that I brought with and then we all went to sleep that night.  I decided to spend the night watching over everybody just in case anything was to happen.  In the morning we took off driving as far as we could out of this place.  This is where we are today in the State of Georgia, there is also a lot actual humans here who survived the outbreak.

Daily journal

This man in the picture is holding the chair above his head getting ready to smash the rat that is right underneath the rug. This is one of the biggest rats in the world that got away from the zoo where they were keeping it. Also this man had a background of being an animal abuser, so he decided to go overboard on this rat that was in his own house. He quickly grabbed the chair and threw it over his head and on his way down the first time. Smash, the chair shattered when he hit the ground. Unfortunately he missed the giant rat, so he quickly ran to his kitchen again to grab yet another chair to go back and attempt to kill this ugly creature. As he did he ended up missing again but after this he decided to go to his closet to gather some things. So he quickly ran up the stairs and grabbed his shotgun that he had hiding under a bunch of cloths. Back down the stairs he came and into the living room to finally once and for all kill this nasty looking creature. He pulled the trigger and bang! There was a loud noise and then all you could hear was a squeal from the rat dying. That was the end of that rat in his house.

daily journal

Behind her the noise escalated....  She had no idea what it was but she knew that it wasnt a very good noise in the background. All she knew is that she was not going to turn around and keep walking as fast as she could so she wouldnt spook the person that was maybe following her. She couldnt take it any longer, she turned around and then there was the Texas chainsaw massacer person with the chainsaw right in his hands. She screamed as loud as she could and attempted to run away but failed. The massacer person took her, threw her on his shoulder and headed back towards his house where he takes apart all the other bodies. And that was the final day that she lived.

Daily journal

The clock winked.... this weird clock was staring at me and it had a different looking face to it. I couldn't even tell if was a dream or if it was real life. All i could tell is that it showed 6:30 in the morning for at least twenty minutes. This is one of the scariest moments that i have seen because that is what time i get up and ready for school. And the thing is that it wouldn't move anywhere closer to seven o'clock!

Daily journal

Over spring break last week i went to Arizona with the golf team. We stayed just outside Phoenix, we first left on the plane at 4:15 Monday afternoon and didn't get there till our time 8 o'clock. What was really cool there is that there time was two hours behind us here. Our first night we didn't really do anything because there was nothing for us to even do so we just hung out in the hot tub relaxing. On our first day golfing we got to sleep in a little bit but i wish we could have slept longer. W played 18 holes that day at Whirlwind Golf Course, this was a very nice course and we played there last year so i knew what the course was like. On Wednesday we had to get up very early, around 5:15, because this was one of the two days that we played 36 holes of golf in one day. This was one of the longest days of golf ever because it took so long to finish all 36 holes to play. This course was at Grayhawk, this was a very nice course and it was in excellent condition when we got there. On Thursday we played the nicest course that i think is down there. Troon north is what it was called and this course is very expensive to play so we only played 18 holes here instead of 36 holes of golf. I looked up on the website to see how much it costs to play here and it said around 450 dollars for 18 holes of golf. Friday was another 36 hole day of golf and was extremely boring, then on Saturday we flew back her to Minnesota and also played 18 holes of golf that day before we took off to the airport.

Daily journal

There i go into the dishwasher, i even have my own little spot to wear i go. That way i don't end up in the bottom of the dishwasher. Me and my friends named fork and knife all go into these little square spots. I enjoy going into the dishwasher because this will help me get clean again and then be used again and again and never be thrown away like a plastic spoon would. The only thing that is really hard to do is when I'm in the dishwasher it gets really hot and i don't like that because it kind of burns. Even though i need that hot water to get me clean i still don't like it at all. The soap part is probably the coolest thing ever because it is so smooth and it can be fun to play in. And then the final rinse to get all the soap off of me is alright, theres nothing cool about that at all. That is me a spoon on a trip through the dishwasher. Now i can be used again by a person who needs a spoon.

daily journal

Something that i should create for mankind would probably be a car that is super fast but yet still gets 40 miles to the gallon, that way you wont go through that much gas. This would be the best thing for males because they would go out and buy this car to drive around in. People would be speading so much around the world and there would also be a lot of cops that would be pulling this kind of car over a lot. And then they should also make it looking like a sweet sport car that would be like a ferrari or something nicer.

Freewriting excercise

Setting- it will take place on earth only. The time period will be 2075.  And the weather will be sunny and then dark. Daily life for the main character is going to Target and get some movies, but no one can ring him out. The character feels really lonely.

Plot- He will be introduced by many different flash backs that he remembers from his entire family when they were living. The zombies start to show there faces and coming out at night to try and find the main character. The climax of the story is when the zombies set a bunch of different traps to get him and one trap ends up getting him and making him go unconscious and not being able to wake up till almost dark. Then a women with two children come to help him out of the trap. Then the they stay and live together and start to drive to where they know there are survivors.  

Daily journal

I wish someone told me how i should start this journal i am supposed to be doing right now but i cant think of anything to right about. I cant think at all right now because it is still to early in the morning and my brain isn't working yet. To me i find that this journal is really boring because there are to many things that people probably should have told me but i didn't want to listen to them at all. I just want to go back to sleep and wake up in two hours when my body actually wants to do something. I'm really lost right now and a little confused on what i am supposed to do right now. I don't want to be here at school at all right now, still have no clue what to write about for this journal.

Brainstorm

My novel is going to be just like i am legend where i will be frozen for a hundred years and then i will unthaw, and everyone will be gone except for me and my dog. People are turning into zombies because of this virus that was going around the world and i am the only one living still. Later in the story i will find some other surviors that are still living.

Daily journal

One vacation me and my family took was to China, and we spent four days here and just spent time looking around at the culture. As we were walking around we saw this funny looking car on the road that looked like a shoe. This little Asian guy was driving it and it was probably one of the weirdest hings i have ever seen in my life. So i quickly whipped out my phone and took a picture as he drove by, along with everyone else on the sidewalk was taking pictures to. I couldn't believe my eyes when i saw this shoe car. The little guy inside was just smiling as he was driving and kind of laughing at the same time. My parents were really confused and were thinking why would someone ever want to drive this kind of car because it had no airbags or any kind of safety features. My dad and i were thinking that we would should make a car similar to that except make it a hockey puck and add a hockey stick in there to. Both of my sisters were kind of like whatever, a little weird that someone would do that to embarrass themselves.  

My journey on a pirate ship

It all started when we were on a boat just off the coast of Africa when a pirate ship came over to our boat and took over. This was one of the scariest things that has ever happened to me before. Our cruise boat wasn't like the Disney boat, it was a little smaller then that but still a good size boat. The pirate boat was exactly like the Black Pearl in the movie Pirates of the Caribbean, i wouldn't be surprised if it came right out of the water just like in the movie but that cant be real. As the pirates were coming to our ship and when they got here. They had there swords out and there small guns that need gun powder and small little round bullets. They jumped onto the boat and they started to grab people and throw them onto there boat, unfortunately i was one of those lucky few that ended up on that boat. They killed four people that i saw maybe more, but the reason why they killed those four people is because they weren't listening to the pirates so they just took there sword and slit there throat with it.

Daily journal

In the picture this man helped the small bunny grow to be the worlds biggest bunny. The way he did this is by feeding it special food, but he wouldn't tell us what he did because he plans on making another small animal grow into another worlds largest animal. Right after they took this picture they ended up killing it that way no one could be able to open it up to see what was in it stomach. A lot of people say that this bunny was on steroids and he cheated, to have the worlds biggest bunny. Some people also question why would you want to make a bunny this big and then kill it right after you take a photo of it. I heard that he is going to try to do this to a little dog that would normally only grow to be ten pounds. His goal is to make it at least grow to thirty pounds maybe more. Also a lot of people question why this man would ever want to make an animal a lot bigger then it is supposed to be.

Technology writing

The Baseball Player by Alex Stevenson

Daily journal

A very warm day outside, but also a very abnormal day for the Incredible. They heard a call from the police about a group of villains who just robbed a bank in the downtown area. So the Incredible quickly put on there suits and away they went, with the little brother using his quick legs to make the car go even faster. And then all of a sudden the little brother's legs just stopped working and he couldn't make himself extremely fast anymore. With out this special ability to make him and the car go a lot faster they wont be able to get to the villains who robbed the bank, they ended up getting over three hundred thousand dollars from the bank. The family was stuck and they didn't know what to do because the car was out of gas. If they cant get to these villains before they get out of the town, the town will lose a lot of money and it wont be good for the people. The little brother was looking down at his feet to see what was going on and why wasn't his special ability to make him faster wasn't working. Next his dad came back and was also helping him out with trying to figure out what was wrong with him.

View from a stack of papers

Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!! I don't want to be put in that shredder.
It all started with a couple of employees working at there desk, they were working the graveyard shift. Both of them were typing stuff into the computer and one of them decided that they should go to the copier and make copies of different things. Stu decided that the first thing he is going to copy is his butt, so he jumped onto the copier and pressed the GO button ten times. Before he knew it he was printing off pictures of his rear end. After that he was getting really bored of that and his buddy decided to copy his hands. He didn't print off that many copies of his hand, Stu came running back with a picture of someones kids that he works with and printed of 50 copies of those. Now after about an hour of wasted time they decided to find something else to do. The paper was just sitting right by the shredder, and then a different employee came in and threw the papers into the shredder. She flipped the switch and that was the end of the papers life.

Daily Journal

Marian Bartsch and Joey Catsalgi met on his first day of work... Joey had a rough childhood and his father beat him growing up as a little boy. He had many broken bones before and some of them never really got healed the right way. Joey has been working at a meat shop for four years now and he really knew his stuff at the meat shop. Marian was just hired because of another guy who just quit there because he was going insane. The two met each other didn't really say much to each other, and then Marians wife showed up at the meat shop to see how he was doing there. His wife brought there two kids with and one was a boy and the other way a girl. The boy was just being a boy, going around touching everything he sees in sight. So Marian saw him doing this and grabbed him and started to beat him for his punishment. Joey saw this and freaked out and started to jump all over Marian, before you know it there was a full out brawl in the meat shop. They ended up calling the cops to come help break up them. Once the cops split the two apart they started to ask questions like what had happened, and all the other questions cops would ask people to get the story. Joey told the cops that he was beating his child and other things to him, Joey also said that he was beaten as a child so he didn't want that to happen to a different kid. 

Final poem

People love to lay in the sun
Laying there all day falling to sleep
Having so much fun
Then there was a sheep
We cant be done
Please dont say a peep
So lets go have some more fun
Now lets take a ride in the jeep
Because its number one

Daily journal

I just found out that i am going to die, and the perfect day would be me waking up and going out to buy a new and expensive car. Then i would drive as fast as i could around the town and everywhere else. Then i would crash my car, then buy a new car. I would go buy a huge house and throw a raging party that would get busted buy the cops. I would end up paying them money to say that there was nothing going on there or it never happened. I would just travel to every fast food restaurant and keep on eating all day. I would find best friend Stu and we will throw another raging party, and then we would buy a plane a fly to Jamaica. While in Jamaica, Stu and I would find people there and would get in fights with them. My best friend Stu dies in Jamaica and then I travel back home to tell his mommy. His mom was very upset, but she said that he was supposed to die that day.

Villanelle poem

People went hunting with a gun
We went hunting for doe
It was quite fun

Birds cherping in the trees
I shot them with a bow
People went hunting with a gun

We came upon some bees
They stung my toe
It was quite fun

My friend lost my keys
He had a big fro
People went hunting with a gun

We sat down for some tea
He talked about his bro
It was quite fun

I needed to pee
Then it was time to go
People went hunting with a gun
It was quite fun

10 most important moments

1. August 12th, 1993 i was born
2. February 22nd, scored first varsity goal.
3. August 12th, 1994 i turned one
4. Went to Disney World & The Disney Cruise
5. Got my first job at age 15
6. Getting my license passing the first time
7. Went to Arizona with my golf team
8. Got pulled over in a driveway, but didn't get a ticket
9. At age 12 saw my first rated R movie
10. I don't do drugs at all 

Etheree poem

Golf
With clubs
Many holes
Drive a golf cart
Or many people walk
Make sure to bring golf balls
In case you go in water
Everyone needs a hat to play
So you don't burn the top of your head
Now we can start our round of eighteen holes

Daily journal

How ridiculous I was as a... young child at the zoo, looking into the tank with an octopus in it. My parents said that i looked really goofy that day and i was acting silly all day because of all the sugar that i ate that day. I had a chocolate and vanilla twist cone for lunch that made me go bananas, along with that i had a entire bag of sour patch kids all by myself. So i was running all over the place because i could not sit still at all to save my life. Then as i was running around i saw this really cool water park looking thing that looked really fun to go play in. So being that the bad kid that i was and all drugged up on sugar i ran into the water park with all my clothes on and got totally drenched. Right there my parents just let me do whatever i wanted in there because they were not going to come after me while i was in there. They even let me be in there with all my clothes on and didn't even care.

Acrostic poem

Alex has talent
Loves to play hockey
Eats five meals a day
X-ray's for my lower leg

Sleeps very little during the day
Teaches little kids how to play hockey
Ended up breaking my leg
Visions myself going to college next year
Eats breakfast in the morning
Never has problems with others
Seen many different places around the world
Opened a new store for a friend
Needs more money for my trip to Arizona

Daily journal

Our government should change by first getting rid of Obama because he really isn't that good of a president. I thought that he was going to be taking troops out of Iraq, not sending more into there. We should have a president that knows things about his country and then we should have someone who has served for his country and will help out with getting troops to come home from over seas. In the real world we really could use some help on having health care for everyone. I don't know what else to write about so i am going to stop writing about the government. I don't really know much about the government and i don't really want to learn about it, the president should be dealing with that and if it fails then we can all blame it on him for what he did. Stu Daly came up with a really good point, that we should all be friends and no one should be racist or hate other people because of there backgrounds. I think we should follow this because it is a smart idea.;

Concrete poem

I am round and black

I tend to be in very cold places

Im three inches in diameter and one inch

thick. I get slapped around all over the ice.

If i get to warm i wont slide very well, that

is why you should keep me on top of ice

There are multiples of me and many

have stickers on me that say im

official. They call me a puck

Sonnet poem

Should i travel to work today on my bike
Or should i drive my gas hog truck to work
Do i need to pack a lunch for work now
I am not looking forward for work
I dont want to be there for twelve hours
Taking out all my day to hang with friends
My mom says to work more often for money
But i want to spend time in the sun
Chillin next to the pool on a hot day
With a snowcone right next to me in my hand
And a nice cold mountain dew along with me
This would be the ideal day come summer

Daily journal

The house was made of... wobbly wood that was from a wagon back in the 1800's. This house was probably one of the most scariest houses i have ever seen in my life and i am pretty sure that it was haunted. People have told me that the little old lady named Gabby murdered at least five people in that house and that's why the house was haunted. My friends and i decided to sneak up to the house at like ten thirty at night. I told them that this is probably one of the most dumbest ideas i have ever done in my entire life. The both of them were so happy to do this and didn't care what would happen to them. We are walking up to the house and it had this smelling fume that made me want to squint my eyes because it was so bad and horrible. As soon as we get to the door we hear a twinkle sound coming from the inside of the house. This made it even more scary, to be up there on this little old lady's front step about to open the door and see what was inside. Right as my friend started to open the door when a cop decided to turn on his sirens.

Assonance

One night i was very frightened
There was a guy with a pie
Hiding behind a tree at a quarter past three
My phone started buzzin so i started runnin
Then i saw the cops they were thinking about taking shots
There was a flash then a crash
My friend looked, then got booked
I saw his honey to get the money
To get him out so he wouldn't pout
I'm free like a bee
Never again will i stay out at past ten
And stay at home next to the phone

Scared time in life

A time in my life where i was scared was when i was ten years old. I was in the summer time and our family was outside doing yard work around the house and my first dog was out there with us. We were all doing something and i started  to play with the dog around the yard with her ball that she had. In the backyard of my house there is a sidewalk that a lot of people with either run by or walk there dogs by. My dog would always see these people going by and would run to the backyard and start to bark at them. We never really worried about her actually going up on the sidewalk or even on to the very busy road behind my house until this day. Nobody was walking or running behind my house and my dog just took off running, so i ran after her because i didn't know where she was going to run to. She ended up running up the hill and then onto the road. So i kept following her even onto the road, didn't even look to see if there were any cars coming down the road. When i got on to the road to chase her back off i picked my head up for just a second and there were two cars coming right for me and my dog. I was lucky enough to get her and me off the road just in time before the cars got to us. I ended up yelling at my parents to grab her and to disapline her for going out of the yard.

Onamatopeia Poem

Random journal

Yesterday was our first section hockey game, and this game was a play-in game where in order to be apart of the sections you need to win that play-in game. But last night we played Sibley High School and we weren't ready to play right off the start. We were down one to zero in the first two minutes of the game. Our coach was very upset that we were down a goal right away and we had to get that goal back fast otherwise we might not be playing hockey anymore. By the end of the first period we had tied it up and in the locker room our coach yelled at us because we shouldn't even be tied with this team right now because they are not even that good. He also yelled at us to get us to wake up and start to play some hockey. At the start of the second period we started to play real hockey, three minutes into the second I scored my first varsity hockey goal to take us into the lead one. From there we scored two more goals in that period. The other team ended up scoring to more goals and then we scored two more goals in the third period. Seeing how we won our play-in game we get to play against Apple Valley on Thursday. I am really excited to play them because i never really got to play them at all this year because of my injury. Hopefully this wont be our last game on Thursday.

Alliteration Poem

Betty B. baked the best bread
By baking all day
With heaping hills on her head
Living, laughing, loving by the bay

Singing songs with soul
Deciding to dance
A miracle man with a mole
Reminded her of romance

Childhood memory

My earliest childhood memory would have to be going to Disney World with my family and my grandparents. We spent about a week in Disney World and then we went on the Disney cruise ship for five days. When we were in Disney world we saw the parade we all the different Disney characters and i ended up getting a autograph book where all the Disney characters could sign it for me. One day i got a really cool tiger painted on my face and it covered my entire face, i ended up getting a lot of complements on my tiger face. Our hotel was probably the coolest hotel i have ever been in because everyday when they would come into our rooms to make our beds they would take a towel and make really cool animals out of them. I remember going out to dinner at this fifties restaurant and our waiter was really funny and i had my elbows on the table and for him that meant disrespect. So me being the immature kid i did the exact opposite and put my elbows in the table.

Sense of time poem

August
August is very blue
The color of a carribean blue ocean
August feels like vacation
Sounds like birds chirping in the air all day
Smell like people mowing there yards
Tastes like snowcones
August is a relaxing month

Daily journal

A man walks out into the cold night air. His hands are shaking from what just happened. He just witnessed a murder occur, he doesn't know what he should do. Should he go straight to the police station or should he totally just forget about it and continue on with his life. A couple days pass by and he still hasn't told anyone about this not even his wife, and all over the news is the police trying to find this guy who murdered three people in one night and robbed them all. The police finally decided to give a reward for anyone who had witnessed this crazy man murder all of these people. He finally decides to go down to the police station on one of his days off from work. When he got to the police station they asked what could i help you with and then he replied i witnessed that man murder all of those people.

Song lyrics

1. i chose this song because i first heard it in Tarzan and it a really good song to. Its important to me because anyone can really relate to this song
2. The story in the lyrics is that something bad is going to happen and he is going to protect this person and they will always be in his heart.
3. I don't know the structure, maybe free verse.
4. The emotional mood is like kind of sad.
5. The message in the song is no matter what you do there will always be someone there to protect you, and you will always be in someones heart even if you don't think so
6. The intention to this music is to show he cares for people.

Parts of speech poem

The rink
Big and cold
Yelling and swearing
Hockey puck

Free writing

I am really excited for this weekend because i have two games left before our section game sometime next week. These last two games are going to be big games for us to see if we can move up a couple of points in the standings. I am kind of sad that these could be the last two games for m, i will never be able to play for a Eastview team ever again after this. Though i am somewhat happy that the season is just about over because it wasn't a successful season for us even though i was out the majority of it i am read to be done with it. Then my next sport that i will play will be golf and i am really excited for this because we take a trip down to Arizona and we spend five days there golfing. These courses that we golf on are some of the most expensive courses out in Arizona and we get to play on them for a good price. The golf season can tend to be a little long to but i like how the practices are really easy for us and we cant get benched for having a bad score. This weekend i wont be doing much except for working on sunday instead of sleeping all day but i need the money to put gas in my car to drive it.

CINQUAIN poem

Hockey
A winter sport
Time to spend together
Minnesota, state of hockey
Lets play

Journal

I wake up and try to take a deep breath, but the deeper the breath the more severe the pain. The ground is hard beneath my back, and I feel a dull pain in my arm… I need to get out of this tent at this campground I'm staying at with friends, if i am going to lay here any longer my back will go out on me. My arm has been hurting for a couple of days now and i think it is from the four wheeler accident i was in the other day. I really need to go get that checked out at the doctor's office because i think i might have a couple broken ribs in my back. It is extremely hard for me to breathe anytime of the day but at night when i am laying down it gets even harder for me to breathe and i feel like i might die from not breathing. I remember the four wheeler rolling over top of me and then after that i don't really remember much at all. My arm got caught underneath the tire and rolled over top of it maybe even breaking my arm.

Metaphor poem

Life is like a bumpy road with constant stop's and go's.
You never know when the road will end.
But i keep on trucking,
because im curious to see where the windy road will end.
The signs down the road guide me down the right path.
With the help of maps on the way.
Now i know im on the right path.

Best friend

My best friend is a friend who i share a lot with moved away to North Dakota but we still are close. When he lived down here in Minnesota we would do some crazy stuff, that some time would get us into a little bit of trouble. His personality is just like mine where we cant be sitting down for a long time otherwise we will get bored and would want to do something active. We played hockey with each other for at least seven years and where really close on the ice. Unfortunately he moved back to where he was from and where they were a lot closer to there own family. That day was a really sad day and can remember saying goodbye to him for the last time. We are still close to this day and we might end up going to the same college.

Simile poem

Your teeth are like the stars
There as bright as a light
So straight like a railroad track
Your teeth are like money
Because it only took four years
I wish mine were like yours

Simile excercise

1. A calendar is like a mirror because you look at it everyday.
2. A sandwich is like a art because everyone has there own opinion.
3. An ice cube is like a cookie because they both melt in your mouth.
4. A knife is like a whisper because it can be sharp
5. Kissing is like a careful collision because you never want it to hurt.
6.  feels like a peeled grape.
7. Lasagna feels like leftover spaghetti.
8. Falling in love sounds like fun because everyone wants it.
9. A dentist’s drill feels like grinding saw because you cant hear yourself think.
10. Tomato soup tastes like bleeding hearts because everything is red.

Cont. of a line journal

Out of the dark we came, into the dangerous forest. There was a creepy trumpet player playing it in the middle of the forest. So my friends and i ran as fast as we could out of the dangerous forest where this old man was playing the trumpet. As we were running out of there we heard the trumpet stop, then there was a squeal. We stopped, looked at each other and then sprinted even faster out of the forest. Finally we were out of the forest and in some persons back yard where there was a crafty tree house where we sprinted up it to watch if a person was going to follow us out of there. While we were watching the forest all of a sudden there was a constant reek of a rotten egg smell in this tree house. we started to search for where this smell was coming from but could not find out where it was coming from.

Change poem

Broken Leg

i
landed
on
the
ice
and
couldnt
get
up

there
i
was
in
an
ambulance
rushing
to
the
hospital

to
find
out
my
leg
was
broken 

Bucket list

1. Go to Australia because the people there talk really cool
2. Go to Europe because my friend who visited there said it was really cool
3. See the Stanley Cup because it is one of the oldest trophies out there right now
4. Kill a dear because i have never have been hunting before and my grandpa used to do that
5. Own two houses because that way i can stay somewhere when its cold in the winter
6. Cliff diving because people have said that this is one of the coolest things they have done
7. Sky diving because it would be a way to relieve stress
8. Go to New Orleans because the Mardi Gras parties are crazy there
9. Drive in a lambo because this is a really fast car

Limerick poem

There once was a man named Stu
He would tend to smell like poo
He never to a shower
He played with flowers
Now he smells like perfume

10 years from now....

Today i woke up at 3:30 in the morning because my newly born son wasn't able to sleep. I am trying to get used to this new house that me and my wife bought together. We are living in a nice three story house, in Minnesota, but we also have a house down in Arizona for the winter time here in Minnesota. I currently work doing mechanical engineering on different types of things that need to be fixed. This is also one of my dream jobs to do, was to be a mechanical engineer. I drive a Chevy avalanche and my wife drives a Chevy Tahoe, both which are brand new. Good thing i found my dream job that also gets paid very well so i can buy these types of things for us. My family lives in Minnesota and are coming down to see us in Arizona in the next couple of weeks. They plan on spending two weeks with us before the go to Mexico.

Ode to a hockey puck

Your just a little piece of black rubber
3 inch diameter and 1 inch thick
You spend all your time in a bucket
Your always beaten around the ice
Players trying to get
You into the net
Flying high through the air
At highway speeds
We see each other everyday

Most embarassing moment

My most embarrassing moment was in gymnastics here at eastview. It was the final day of the quarter and we were doing our final floor routines. a couple of people went before me and then it was finally my turn to do my routines. I started my routine and then when i had to do my front flip off the spring board, i started to panic. Because i didn't get a good run to the spring board and when i hit the board, i realized that i didn't rotate enough in the air to land on my feet. There were at least three other classes in their watching this class when this happened to me. I could hear some of the kids chuckling in the background while i was trying to finish my routine.

Auto-bio poem

Alex
Tough, honest, smart, kind
Brother of Samantha and Gabby
Lover of challenges, parents
Who feels energetic while playing hockey
Who needs laughter everyday
Who gives smiles, laughter, caring
Who fears all the finals at the end of the quater
Who would like to see different types of continents
Resident of Apple Valley
Stevenson

cont. of sentence

The lion looks over at me.... He then makes sure that I'm not looking at him and then he pounces onto the zebra eating him to death. Then the lion makes a weird call to all the other lions for them to come over to have some dinner. All the lions were eating and they all heard me move in the bushes, i didn't move a muscle when that happened. I only have a spear in my hand to help protect me but the way it was looking i wasn't going to do much damage to four lions hovering the now dead zebra. I had a special whistle that was loud enough that the lions couldn't hear but humans could, then more people came to help me with all the lions that were there and when they weren't looking all seven of us jumped out of the bushes and headed straight for the lions. We ended up getting all the lions but we lost only one person in this battle with the lions.

Haiku poem

Ice painted lines cold
Broken leg torn ligaments
Lets play some hockey

Thank you note

I would like to thank both of my parents because over the years they have really helped out with. They both have really helped me out this past year with college applications and giving me advice on what they think i should do for my future. Whenever i need advice from my dad he is always willing to be there and answer the question to the best that he can do. My mom is always there for me making me eat healthy and always cooking good food for me everyday. My parents are really generous so that i don't have to pay for my car insurance unless i get into a crash, i have to pay the difference in the insurance. The only thing that they said i have to do is put gas into the car that i drive. I am really going to miss my moms cooking when i go away to college.

Brainstorm for poem

Tore 2 ligaments in my ankle & broke my fibula
Hyperextended my back
Multiple stitches
Arizona trip with the golf team
Disney World with family
Mexico vacation
1st dog that died
First varsity hockey game
Hockey season will be short for me
Chipped growth plate in my arm
Buying my own 42 inch tv for college
My first job at the Minnesota Zoo
Buying my ps3 fro college

Best & Worst place in the world

The best place in the world that is the most peaceful is Phoenix, Arizona. I went here last spring break with the golf team and it is really warm there. While on the golf courses there is no one around you because you are in the middle of the desert playing golf on top golf courses where the professionals play. All the grass is green on the courses and there is zero dead grass on the course. While playing on the courses you can see in the background the Rocky Mountains, with the sun beating down on you while playing.

The worst place in the world is the hospital. This is by far the worst place in the world because you know when your in there that something bad as happened. Like me, when i had to ride in an ambulance to the emergency room when i broke my leg. The smell of it in the hospital was the worst smell because you can tell that they sanitize everything. You see all the doctors walking around with masks on their faces because they either came out of surgery or there trying not to get sick from all the germs around you.

Free writing

I want to learn to learn in this class is on how to be more creative in writing. All of my papers over the years have been really boring and all of them say that i need to have fun with writing the paper to make it more interesting. And i know that i am not a very good writer to begin with and i am really going to need to be a creative writer in college.