She’s been a bit peckish lately and I don’t want any of you fine guests to lose a finger. October 2022 First Place Winner! Title:“Halloween Mix-up” By: Madison Brown, Age 16, Idaho, USA Description: A girl on Halloween encounters someone with a really cool and realistic costume....
“What floor are we on, Papa?” Jarrod stood there, in the elevator, one hand on the door making sure it stayed open, other hand poised over the buttons, index finger extended and ready to press the floor we needed to access for our stay. “Fourteenth,” Tyler responded. “Technically,...
[shavings, that is, pieces that never got sharpened or that didn’t fit in the sharpened draft] Pencil shavings. Pencil apron—the part that’s the wood part that your index finger rests on. It’s called the “apron” of the pencil. I didn’t know it needed a name On this campus,...
The pink hair girl who took my cart likes working on Sundays because there is different energy. She can’t play the Monopoly game either. I grabbed the bags and waited for Rachel to get the receipt. I stood beside phone guy along the wall. It’s odd the gyrations people go through ...
A knockout figure. A sharp tongue. A chip on her shoulder. And a gorgeous new senior boyfriend: the supremely goofy, word-obsessed Matthew Livingston. Frankie Landau-Banks. No longer the kind of girl to take “no” for an answer.
going from being very short to above average tall and learning that school was much harder now. Football was definitely taking over my life and would continue for the duration of my education at themiddle school. I had broken my finger my first season in first grade and then again the seco...
Before she/they could finish her/their sentence, I mustered a stern look, held a finger up and said, “Do NOT show me granny jeans.” This triggered a relaxation response in the two girls. They shed the finishing school posture, let out a simultaneous breath and erupted into conspiratorial...
The Pendle Way is marked by a witch on fingerposts obviously. And the race organisers ensure that funds from the run are given back to maintaining the Way. The first four checkpoints provided food and drink: one had fairy lights (very pretty in the dark) and at the checkpoint in Lane...
I probably started using the finger again too soon. My witty eighteen-year-old self said “I had a knife fight with a chicken, and the chicken won.” And thus ended my career at Melio’s. Scare me! This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged 1974, Madison Heights, Melio's, ...
Out of the two of them I’d prefer to have a well-meaning gentleman with his finger on the nuclear button any time. One final thought. An important variable among older people is motivation. The less you want something the less you try to get it. And the less you try, the faster ...