1. There are worms coming out of the half eaten red apple.
2. Amy is screaming her lungs out for help but no one seems to be responding to her.
3. The cars on the streets are stuck in a traffic jam and are horning away.
4. The strong wind is constantly blowing at Jamie, disrupting her studying.
5. John is having butterflies in his stomach while he sits for the examination.
6. The birds are flying across the dark and gloomy sky.
7. Mother brings in the clothes instantly after hearing the thunder roar.
8. Everyone can’t seem to concentrate on their revision as the radio in the room is too loud.
9. The dog barks and wags its tail happily when Jane returns home.
10. Having to top the class for Science, Sean yells out in excitement.
11. Abigail enters the room with tears rolling down her cheeks.
12. Jolynn stares at her family photo and tears are flowing uncontrollably from her eyes.
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myzodj // October 27, 2006 at 2:12 am
Hey Wendy! The story I wrote out of your twelfth sentence.
Jolynn stares at her family photo and tears are flowing uncontrollably from her eyes. Sitting at the corner of her room, she pulls her legs to her chest and buries her head as she resurrects memories from her childhood. The frame falls out of her hand and lands on the floor, shattering the piece of glass that protects it. Behind those thin sheets of clear material, each and everyone of them smiles at Jolynn, but she wonders if such smiles are real. After what seems like eons, Jolynn emerges from behind her arms and picked up the broken frame. The pieces of glass fall onto the parquet and some on her tiny feet as she does. She stares at the photo one more time, and then puts it aside and picks up a petal of glass. She begins to giggle sadistically under her breath as she runs the glass lightly down her arm and across her wrist. She turns to look down at her family photo one more time before adding pressure to the glass and on her skin, breaking it and allowing the blood to flow out quickly and freely like prisoners on a loose. This time, she begins to giggle harder, and eventually she is laughing hysterically, so loud that at the other room, her sister hears her laughing and rushes into her room to see what the commotion is.
Janine stands there in front of her broken sister, in front of her bleeding and breaking sister. She looks on, not knowing what to do, afraid that if she touches Jolynn, then she might break down too. Jolynn stops laughing and looks into her sister’s eyes. While she slowly gets up on her feet, she wipes her wrist at the side of her bed, hoping to wipe off the blood but to no avail as the red liquid continues to flow. How can it stop flowing? Would a dolphin stop swimming if it has been freed out into the ocean? Janine continues to stand there, inanimate. She is still in shock. Running in her mind are thoughts of the people she has been helping at community centers but little does she know, or realize, that the very person who needs her help is at home. Jolynn reaches out and hugs Janine, her body shaking, her blood staining the back of Janine’s white shirt, her tears flowing down her cheeks and onto Janine’s shoulders.
And then, voice shaking not so violently as her body, she sings a line that hits both them hard in their hearts. “In our family portrait we looked pretty happy, let’s play pretend. Let’s go back to that.”
dipsville // November 2, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Amy is screaming her lungs out for help but no one seems to be responding to her. She is flying through the air, one mile off the ground. Her legs are aching and her mouth is getting dry. Her voice starts cracking. She does not cease screaming. She has no idea why she was flying through the air for so long.
Last she remembered, she was hit by a truck on Highway 17. The truck must have been going at 90 miles per hour at the very least. Funny thing is, she doesn’t feel even the slightest bit of pain. Neither could she feel her legs anymore or hear her own voice. It seems like she was flying for ever. Her legs have gone numb and her voice gone sore. She thinks that she has entered a place beyond space and time and ponders whether or not she was in the after-life. While in the middle of her thoughts, she suddenly feels the pull of gravity. She begins to accelerate towards the ground. She hits terminal velocity.
And BOOM! she hits the ground. She gets up and realises that she was not hurt in any way at all. She suddenly has a thought. She thinks she must be Supergirl. From the bend in the road, a man with a gun appears. He points the gun at her. He pulls the trigger and the bullet flies towards her. She can see the bullet coming. She stands her ground confidently. The bullet hits her in the chest. She dies.
-Thank you-