Short Story
I apologize that this is a bit late, I was sick the last time we had class and I was sick all of break!
It was a red house more beautiful than he had ever seen. Beautiful red brick, amazing large trees swaying, and green grass as far as the eye could see. It was the house that he had always dreamed of while growing up in the slums of Detroit. A garage filled with sports cars and motorcycles. If only the people from his old neighborhood could see him now, they would never believe it.
He is a simple man, a hard worker from a small one
parent home. He was beaten as a child and hated both of his parents. To get
away from the place that he was born into has been his goal since the first
time his dad struck his mother. He tried with all his strength to stop his
father from hitting his mom, but he was just too weak. His youth was his worst
enemy. When he was young his mother was murdered, right in front of his very
eyes. This was a moment that scared Ryan for life. He was never the same man
after the loss. When he was eighteen he left the bowels of Detroit and moved to
this new house that he has finally built.
He enters the house after staring at it for about
an hour. He then realized that he was looking straight at a ghost. Freaked out
immediately, he took off running and didn’t stop until he got to the door. He
then realizes that there is an aura about the house that he had sensed before.
It was a comforting voice from his childhood that he hadn’t heard in a very
long time. He turned his head and standing in the dark doorway was his mother.
(Her ghost) She smiled at him and softly said, “I’m so proud of you my son”. He
was frozen is total shock, not able to mumble a word except, “I love you”. She
disappeared and he finally realized that the last part of Detroit and his
childhood was finally behind him. A year after his high school sweet heart
moved in with him they decided to make things official and get married. They
had two children named Mike and Mark. They then lived happily ever after.
The reading for this week was another fun week in
the world of fiction. It seems that there is never really an end to the
different ways you can structure and write a fiction story. Another great
example of this is in our second fiction packet. The first story in it is
called, Internal, and is written by Brian Evenson. While this story
isn’t super unique in the way that it is written, it is still different then
some of the stories that we have read so far. I actually enjoyed this story
because it had good structure to it. It has a title, followed by a section that
contains chapters in it. Each chapter or section is about a different part of
him. For example some of the parts were his internship, instructions, record
and journey, apartment, technique, furnishings, etc. Each chapter, within a
section, tells another part of his journey. This may seem relatively boring
because most books are written in this form, but it is actually nice to read a
story with some structure to it. Maybe in the next few weeks we will see some
more stories written like this, instead of so many that are written in an odd
format like some of the weird ones in these packets that we keep reading.
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