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Ashley ThorntonWriters BlockHe Stories 04-07

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  • Smoke Break
  • A Time to Eat
  • Blank
  • An Unexpected October Blizzard
  • Smoke Break

    Part 1Normally we’d wrap up at the office before seven at night, but Christa wants us to make our new years eve vows together in order to stay accountable. My boss thinks that this is a great idea. She’s such a suck up.“I vow to be a better representative of this company.”“I resolve to quit smoking cold turkey.”“I want to get a girlfriend.”My boss looks at me. “How about you Christa?”I hold back a sigh. “I want to be somewhere. Anywhere. But here.”I walk out of the room.Shawn follows me. His name is stupid, generic, and exhausting. But then again, so is mine. I guess that’s what makes us look...BvQone door

    A Time to Eat

    All Purpose Flour Eggs Milk Cooking Oil Baking Powder Pinch of SaltPreheat oven. Mix dry ingredients together. Slowly blend wet ingredients into dry mixture. Stir until a ball of dough forms. Sprinkle extra flour onto surface. Roll out dough ball until half of an inch high. Cut uniform discs from dough. Place disc on lightly greased baking sheet. Bake in preheated oven. Periodically check for consistency. Remove baking sheet when discs have risen and golden brown. Allow resting time. Serve with desired jellies or jams.Eggs Pinch of Salt Cracked Black Pepper Diced Onion Diced Tomato Chopped Spi...BvQone door

    Blank

    BlankBy Heather Ann MartinezFour walls. Not much light. Chanse Sylverman called it home. The bunkers were not built for sustaining anyone for very long. Chanse had been living in the bunker longer than mwww.onedoor.ccost of the others trying to escape radiation burns and inevitable death. The bunkers were starting to deteriorate. They could no longer keep anyone alive and the poisons that were outside were starting to find their way in. The only hope of survival was to move further underground. The major issue with that is that there is no natural light. There is only cold and darkness. Chanse struggled wit...BvQone door

    An Unexpected October Blizzard

    Located on a small, rural farm exactly forty minutes away from friends, towns, and resources, our surroundings consisted of lush, green cornfields in the summer and empty, barren fields of frozen dirt in the winter. In mid-October, 2002, winter came early, and it brought with it a vengeful blizzard of ice, wind, and bitter cold.The snow had begun falling in fat, beautifully intricate snowflakes on a Friday morning, and by the time we returned from school, delivered by school bus at the end of the longest lane a kid could ever walk, the snow had fallen to nearly ten inches, drifting to my wais...BvQone door

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