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Garrett Winn’s Intermediate Writing Class for UVU
Lightening Writing
October 21st, 2008 by Maraw in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

The four children quickly looked both ways before darting across the steet. “man, that was close”
“Did that car even see us?” “I don’t know, it almost seemed as if it sped up!” Timmy said. They turned and again saw two dim headlights coming
towards them. This time. they knew something was us. It wasn’t just by chance those cars were speeding towards them.
“What are we even doing here?” John asked Timmy. “We just gotta do this” Timmy replied gruffly. That fact that it was raining wasn’t going to stop them. Lighting a flame in his hand, he threw it at the
crossing guard at the intersection of the streets. “we must get the the other side” timmy said. “But John you have to hurry.” “You’re not
going to get caught.” “Don’t worry everything will be fine. He’s too old and fat to catch us, we’ll be fine. You all go ahead and meet me down at the park, I’ll be coming” Timmy explained. All of a sudden the black car sped by again.

Lighting Writing
October 7th, 2008 by Jessica Bailey in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

It was a cool autumn day, she had started the day late and decided she wasn’t going to go into work. She looked at the clock and remembered her late night last night. It was a good evening out with friends. Suzanne had asked if she was getting along with her new boyfriend that she had just met the week previous. “Not really,” she said, as she remembered Tuesday when he had hit her little brother with his car. It was an accident of course. Was it? He lost an entire day. The memory was not in his memory bank. Why can’t I remember? Where did the accident happen? Alex asked Suzanne where her brother remembers it happening. Alex couldn’t recall anything. He looked at her as though she was speaking a foreigh language. Are you okay? What is going on? How do you not remember that Rob hit you? “Because it never happened,” Alex said. “What are you talking about? Of course it did! Look you even have the bumps and bruises to prove it!”

Lightning Write
October 7th, 2008 by Meri Brown in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

The sun was shining on the early summer morning.  The dew was glistening on the tall grass in the meadow.  The mountains above were

very majestic today.  The year was 1941, and Molly was outside playing in the mud.  “Molly, what are you eating?” asked her brother Jimmy.  She was chewing on something pale white.

Molly says “It’s a concoction that I made myself.  It’s white oleander.” Jimmy says to me, “Why would you eat something that would kill

you?”  She turned her head slowly to look at Jimmy’s face.  “it doesn’t matter Jimmy, I’ve got nothing to live for.”

Jimmy began to cry, realizing what she meant by that.  hea couldn’t believe his dear sister was trying to do the one thing that had so hushed

their parents the previous year.  He was sorry that his family didn’t see the point to living now that Grandpa was gone.  Grandpa had been the glue that held the family together.

Lightning Write
October 7th, 2008 by Rachel in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

The unicorn lifted its head to look at the tree.  It was odd; somehow the leaves just didn’t seem to fit.  It was too early in the season for the flowers to bloom.  Something was different about this year than any other year.  It had been a long hot summer and was turning to fall late this year.  The unicorn had known to love and respect this tree for every year it went to the tree to renew its magical power.  But this year, the power seemed to be depleted.  How could this be?  There weren’t any other trees like this one.  Was he doomed to now walk the earth as a mere horse for the rest of his now short existance.  The life he had lived as a unicorn was unlike any other but, upon relfection, he decided that maybe pulling a cart wasn’t such a bad idea after all.  Besides, there weren’t any female unicorns to speak of.  With such a glaring omission, who even needed a horn.  Skipping happily, he hurried down the road to find the nearest farmer who needed a draft horse.

Lightning Write
October 7th, 2008 by Collin C. in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

Jack had just woken up in a dark room.  He wasn’t quite sure what had happened, but he knew that he had a throbbing headache.  “Hello?”

No one was there, or at least no one would answer.  Standing up, he hit his head on something really hard and passed out.

Whoa! What was that?  My head is killing me but even more frightening was the fact that there was another person in the room standing over me.  I couldn’t

spit anything out the fear had caused me to be speechless.  Never in my life had I seen a man with such a large

unibrow. It was huge! It seemed as if it were just a rectangular chunk of hair right above his eyes.  His breath was very strong of

garlic. Pizza! He knew now it was the pizza delivery man!  He shouldn’t have been eating all his profits! Nonetheless, Jack Paid

the delivery man for the pizza, and switched on the light in his messy apartment. “Thanks” the pizza man said, and left Jack all alone once again.  “I love college” Jack thought.

Lightning write
October 4th, 2008 by martyman in Uncategorized || 1 Comment ||

Once upon a time in a far away place, lived a little boy named Kade. He was a very adventurous boy with a wild imagination and lots of time on his hands.

He didn’t quite realize how much time he had on his hands until one day, time disappeared. The evil villain, Stop Watch,

slowed time in as itself everyone had stopped. The only person that did not stop was him.

But mechanical devices still worked. His longest dream had been to drive a Ferrari. Now he could! Where would he get the keys?

The world was his playground, he ran down the street to the nearset car dealership. Everything was right there for him to use. Red, black, yellow, what color Ferrari would he

drive? It never occurred to him to wonder what would happen when time escaped the villain. Kade spotted the perfect car- sea creature green, hopped in

only to find Stop Watch sitting next to him. “Sorry, but if I allowed you to roam free, how fair would that be to the rest of the world? He  pushed a small device

and the Ferrari kicked into Nitrous mode. Stop Watch flew out of the car and broke, just like the whimpy stop watch he was and Kade’s adventure went on forever!

Lightning Writing
October 3rd, 2008 by BrianMayberry in Uncategorized || 1 Comment ||

The dark damp hallway smelt like death. Nobody dare enter it alone for fear of never returning.

But Jim was a brave soul who wanted to prove himself to his love, Bertha. Only Jim didn’t know what lurked

Ahead of him, fear gripped him tight as he took the first few steps looking back at Bertha, he waved.

He turned back quickly to hide the fear in his eyes as he continued down the neverending tunnel to hell!

But it turned out to Jim’s suprise that hell was actually quite cozy. So cozy in fact that he called through the tunnel for Bertha. “Hey Bertha! Roll that lard body of yours on down

this place is Rockin.” Bertha came flying down to Jim. “Hey Jim this place is

GREAT!” It turns out that the hallway was just a cover for an underground club that only a few people knew about. Jim also realized that the reason “no one ever returned” was that there was an exit back to the street. Jim was suprised to live next to such a place for years and never known.

Lightning Write
October 1st, 2008 by Charles Ringger in Uncategorized || 2 Comments ||

Jim stumbled up to the bar, obviously intoxicated.  “Give me something strong and cheap” he said with a slur.
“How about a kick in the ass?” that’s strong and free!  The bartender laughed.  “You’ve had enough”  Jim stood up, but when he turned, a sexy looking girl approach to him and ask him to buy her a drink, after a couple drinks they were both telling each other stories not even their spouses knew.  They laughed at one another the teenagers attempt to flirt.  She was attracted to the married man.  She asked if he wanted to go home with her.  Even through his intoxication he knew he had to say no.  This was not who he wanted to be.  One of THOSE guys.  The kind that cheated.  Did she has choice?  She had to deal with the situation.  So she ordered 2 shots, threw one in his face, and took the other.  Jim realized what almost happened

The Paintbrush
October 1st, 2008 by Troy in Uncategorized || No Comments ||

He watched the paintbrush tumble into the bay below.  He held tight to the railing of the Bay Bridge.  He remembered what the foreman told him, “don’t drop the f….ing brush”!  Then a small rabbit started talking to him asking him all about what he was doing.  His brush with all the chemicals was now polluting the bay.  The rabbit continued to scold him.  He shouldn’t have drank so much the night before.  He was talking to bunny for crying outloud!  What was he going to tell his foreman?

Finally, he figured out how to manage the situation.  He went to meet his foreman and explained to him that the rabbits were harassing him, which caused the brush to fall.  He could blame it all on them.

He carefully climbed back down and told the foreman that he lost his brush.  The foreman smiled.  “I know, I was watching” he said.  “When you get back to the unemployment office tell them you’re a dumb-ass and you need to do something easier”.

Lightning Writing
October 1st, 2008 by zach_hawkins55 in Assignments || No Comments ||

As citizens walked the streets of New York City, they could hardly believe what was the cause of the ominous shadow that lurked over them.

As people started to look up and stop walking or talking on the phone, the comotions started small.  A

wave of aprehension crashed down on the unsuspecting people as the alien ship slowly descended and a portal opened to reveal

an onslought of creatures so horrible even R.L. Stine was taking notes, well at least he was until he was eaten.  The creatures poured out of the portal looking

more hungry then ever, while

my brother turned off the tv right when the movie was starting to get good.  “He is such a jerk” I thought as I punched him in the gut and threw him down the front stairs.  “That’ll teach him to interupt my movies again!”

Then the roof was blown off my house and a giant alien plucked me right up and ate me…
The End