Adaptation. He wouldn’t be happy. Tiny, exquisite pastel-coloured shells. The high school she attends is made up of mostly rich kids and Shannon really wants to be accepted. That would please him, wouldn’t it? 2600 words copyright Anne Whitaker 2009 She had dreamed once that a tern pecked a hole in the top of her head. Licensed under Creative Commons – for conditions see Home Page, Tagged "Lord of the Flies", Anne Whitaker, Elvis Presley’s “Heartbreak Hotel”, Fry's 'Five Boys' chocolate bar, Jo Cowell international short story competition UK, sexist attitudes, Read about the Moon's Nodes in Action and obtain a copy, Read about Jupiter meets Uranus and obtain a copy, Read about the book, download a sample or buy it with Paypal. “Deirdre, you’re a real pal,” he said, giving me a big smile. “The birds. The terns, mollified, flew away to the sea’s edge. “She gets one shilling a week. She ran, faster and faster; through the bank of shells, across the high tide mark strewn with seaweed. Those who are over fifty will be reminded of some of the sexist attitudes to girls which prevailed in the middle decades of the last century ! We stopped at the corner sweet shop to spend our last few pennies on sherbet fountains and lucky potatoes, eating them on the way home. “When will we start?”, “Tomorrow morning,” Archie said. She gave me some. One was very new and glinted in the sun. “Must get home for my dinner” I mumbled, not looking at him. That’s quite enough for a child her age.”, “Rubbish, woman” replied uncle Angus. Just now it was tame; gulls picked idly in the channels, big smooth stones embedded in the sand were drying themselves languidly in the sun. After some time she grew bold; longing to see the chicks more clearly she began to edge, still crouching, towards the sea. “I’m smart,” he said. “Seems a pity to waste them, doesn’t it?” he said, scratching his head and thinking very hard. Sheep were often lost in the dark here, sucked into the treacherous bogs, and last spring a tinker had vanished without trace. “See you the next time.”. He straightened up when he heard me coming. Archie bought a water pistol; I bought a lead cowboy whose hat and gun clipped on and off. The chapel dated back to the fifteenth century; in it rested the bones of the earliest MacLeod chiefs. He thought I was less stupid than most girls. Try again later. “Are you coming with me?”. Go straight out and spend the lot today on whatever you fancy. “Angus!” My mother sounded shocked. Our whole lives are about growing. Screech, swoop and dive…screech, swoop and dive! Not daring to move, she watched the parents shepherding their young. Three years ago, I left Central Asia on a last minute flight … “Can I have one?” I asked. Schulmanager, Digitales Klassenbuch und Elternportal, um die Schulabläufe digital zu organisieren. She was hungry; bringing out the sandwiches and lemonade she ate, chuckling to herself……I wonder how Latin is going? Four half crowns! Digging that hole was hard work. Fry's Five Boys chocolate - once the most famous confectionery bar in the world. The Mussel Ebb had claimed many lives; even strong swimmers had lost battles with its powerful and insidious currents. © 2020 Schulportal. Datenschutzbestimmung Most Short Stories are either : Stand Alone; About Catherine Reynolds; In the Eden's Creek Universe . artwork by Pamela J. Blair…[email protected], Her father had often assured her that these birds only threatened; they never actually attacked. There was nothing to be done. A sweetish, sickening odour caught her throat. She stared at her hand; sliding into her cupped palm from a ruin of shattered eggshell, blood and jelly came a half-formed tern. I’ll sneak them up here later on today.”, He winked,  rubbing what was left of the butterfly into powder between his palms. Dogs, children, adults; the terns made vicious swoops on all who threatened their young. Her gaze shifted from the chapel to the chicks, to the mothering birds, to the incoming tide. Go yourself.”, “Some of us aren’t so lucky. EF Short stories Growing Up Klassenarbeit Englisch 10 Nordrh.-Westf. Post was not sent - check your email addresses! With all this work to do? Klasse 10. This is the story of how I cut seven inches off and did not regret it one bit. The image of the lamb’s congealed and bloody eye sockets infected her vision. Out the kitchen door we hurried, down the concrete path, not even stopping to hurdle the dustbins. Away and spend it, then.”, He turned round, very quickly. Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email. At night, so it was said, you could see the eyes of the dead shining in the churchyard. It worked. What a good time we’d had in the budgies’ graveyard last summer holidays! She had been warned many times not to go near the canal; now she knew why. Despite her alarm, there was a tight knot of stubbornness in her…..I’m not giving up the rest of my day for them!…..Crouching low, she ran for the protection of the dunes, huddling down in the steep curve between dunes and beach. Bei dem Text. Jumping out of bed, I pulled on my jeans and a jersey, and ran downstairs. “Come on, let’s go. “Let’s walk,” I replied. She walked fast. Unfortunately, my father saw us shooting arrows at dead budgies hanging from the clothesline. “What are we going to do with these worms, Archie?” We were digging up the longest, fattest worms I had ever seen. Calm, untroubled, at peace, her body felt as clear and clean as the gently rising waters. She walked slowly towards it; the stink of the sludge made her retch. Bei dem Text handelt es sich um die Short Story "Locker 160". I was lying in bed eating a bacon sandwich, and drinking the  tea my mother had brought me. The sun was moving westward, the light fading. Deutschland / Nordrhein-Westfalen - Schulart Gymnasium/FOS . Startseite “How about here?” I followed his voice, picking my way through the nettles. I looked at him, trying not to show my feelings. “Hadn’t you noticed?”, “My geography teacher said that if you started digging from Scotland you’d get to Australia if you kept going long enough”, “If David Livingstone could do it, why can’t we?”, “What are we going to do with these worms, Archie?”, “Seems a pity to waste them, doesn’t it?”, “Right, pick up a few and bring them over here.”, “The birds. A rusty can. “You scruffy little tinker! “It’s getting serious,” Archie said. It was Saturday morning. Clear off. Lazily, she draped herself on the scrubby grass between boathouse and shore. “If David Livingstone could do it, why can’t we?”, “But ….” I said puzzled. Abruptly, she got up and walked on. Erwartungshorizont ist begefügt. “I keep getting wet feet, and I’m running out of stories to tell my mother.”, “Perhaps we could use a tin can as a bailer, like my father does in his boat?”, “Trouble with that,” Archie replied, “is that the water would still come in, and we’d spend half the time bailing it out.”. I followed him, gratefully. “Down town? She found out the identity of the oldest member of the group. The sound of the sea grew closer. As she crept her hand touched something warm and smooth lying in a hollow in the sand. As she walked, eyes combing the miscellany of objects cast up by the sea, she remembered the discovery she had always longed to make; two summers ago, a transparent green bottle with paper inside it, the ink running slightly. #shortstorycollection. But I don’t like girls. But I’ll have to cross the canal first…..apprehensively, she studied the fat chipped black pipe which ran from one bank to the other. She exhausted herself with swimming; near the shallow again, she turned and floated on her back, limp as a strand on bladder-wrack. The morning was clear; coaxed by the warm sun, a gentle perfume distilled from the clover and forget-me-not and nameless little plants nestling in the turf under her feet began to mingle with the air. “I got a present today.”, “Very nice, I’m sure,” he said in a nasty voice. Anne Whitaker's blog exploring astrology's many highways and byways…come and join me! She had never visited it alone. Another water spider homed in and pounced. The thought made her shiver. She could not stay in this alien place. Lying huddled against the wall was a bundle of dirty woolly rags; holding one hand over nose and mouth she crept nearer. “Huh…. Prompt 1: You are a kid's imaginary friend. She stood up then and wiped it hard on her shirt. “We’ll have a laugh here,” said Archie. It will never belong to me……. 12/17/2013 02:23 pm ET Updated Feb 16, 2014 "It's only about three inches," I say, motioning to where I want to chop off my hair. “Some of us aren’t so lucky. An error has occurred; the feed is probably down. Northern Lights at Stenness Stones, Orkney. It was worth the row later. Klasse 10. Archie could have a share! “Where have you been, you lazy little runt?”, “I’m going down town this morning, Archie,”, “Down town? Growing up is also the dramatic transition of a moment. It explores a pubescent youngster’s beginning to define herself in her own terms, outwith those of peer group or family, with some of the unexpected and unwelcome consequences of setting out on one’s own voyage of discovery….

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