Mrs. Harrison

Screech! The red car stopped suddenly and its occupants were thrown forward. The shock of the crash lingered and the young woman barely remembered her trip to the hospital. When she awoke many hours later, she was lying in a clean, white hospital room with her arm in a cast and stitches in her cheek.
The curtains were drawn back and she could see the sky of a late afternoon- a bright blue with cotton ball clouds. She turned her head and the room swam. When her vision cleared, she saw the clock read 4:06. 9 hours since the crash. Why had she been out? Why had she been out at 7 o’clock in the morning? She was never out that early. Oh… Damien. Of course… He was probably out partying… Or maybe he had a hangover. Well serve him right.
The door opened and a nurse entered. She wore a spotless dress and her soft, brown, cow eyes looked kindly at the poor figure on the bed.
The nurse said “Good afternoon dear. I’m Bertha.”
“B-Berea.”
The name rolled clumsily off her tongue.
“Wha-wha- What happened?”
“You were in a car crash dear.”
Really. She never would have guessed that.
“I mean what’s wrong with me?”
“You have a compound fracture of your humorous and you cut your face.”
“Oh. When can I go home?”
“Excuse me dear?”
How stupid was this woman?
“Home. When can I leave this hospital?”
“This isn’t a hospital dear. It’s the county jail. You killed a man last night, hit him with a car. You’re being charged with vehicular manslaughter. Possibly murder.”
“Who-who did I kill?”
“There wasn’t much left to identify him with, but his drivers license claimed he was Damien Harrison.”
No.
The nurse was speaking again.
“…will come see you tomorrow morning. Get some sleep, Mrs. Harrison.”

hello sam

When I stepped out of the theatre, the sky had turned completely black. Clouds covered the stars and far in the distance owls hooted. As I looked up and down the deserted street, the paths seemed evermore foreboding and the allies opened like dark mouths to swallow me whole. Perhaps the journey home was best left until morning. There was a hotel across the street and, as this seemed the most logical place for my nights repose, I directed my steps toward the front door.
The clerk at the front desk was anything but welcoming and the room to which he assigned me lacked many of the comforts of home: mainly small articles, such as… a bed. There was only an old mattress with a blanket tossed over it. I briefly considered going back downstairs and out the front door, but memories of the dark allies waiting for me outside would not let me. Instead, they made me double lock the door. I didn’t have anything in the way of luggage and I wanted a pillow to go with my mattress so I opened the closet door to search for one. Instead of the white, fluffy commodity for which I had hoped, a dark figure glided through the opening.
“Hello, Sam.”

Childrens book text

It was a perfectly normal day when Ms. Joiner’s class came to school.
They came in, sat down and read books while they waited quietly for their teacher.
Ms. Joiner came in smiling and carrying a rolled-up rug under her arm.
"Hey what's that?" asked the children.
"It's a surprise for all of you!" said Ms. Joiner.
And she placed the rug in the corner of the room.
The students kept looking at the rug and wondering what it could be for.
Finally, Ms. Joiner took the rug and spread it on the floor.
"Come sit in a circle please." she called the children.
They all came running and sat in a circle, just as requested.
"Class, we are going on a field trip today! To all of your favorite places!"
“But how will we get there?” The students wondered.
"On this magic carpet," replied Ms. Joiner.
She sat down with them, and the carpet flew up and away.
And they went to all of the children's favorite places:
Andrew and Isaiah wanted to go to Disney World.
Orion chose Leaping Lizards.
Audrey waned to go to the Humane Society to look at animals.
Richard and Claire said “We want to go to Target, please!”
They stopped at Lindsey’s lake house so she could show them around.
Then Jack C., Kelsey, and Caroline requested to go to the beach.
Cole wanted to go to Toy’s R Us to shop.
Yahiko, Sanaya, and Mary all said “The Mall!”
Malik took them to Chuckee Cheese’s where they played for almost an hour.
Ella’s request was farthest: all the way to Mexico.
Annie loved Stone Mountain and they climbed all the way to the top,
Jack L. asked to go to the park.
Isaac said the playground and the magic carpet took them.
The children were very tired by now.
So Ms. Joiner returned them to school where they arrived just as it was time to go home.
The children made sure to thank their teacher for the wonderful day.
They went home to tell their parents about all their adventures.