Category Archives: Writing

Fantasy, Harris Burdick, The Third Floor Bedroom, Writing

The Third-Floor Bedroom

 

It all began when someone left the window open, on a spring morning on April 12, 2003.

A boy named Dylan was eating breakfast, when all of a sudden the bus came. He ran to the bus stop. When he ran he felt like something was missing. But, he wasn’t worried.

When he got on the bus he had remembered that something it was that he had left his window open.

Meanwhile at Dylan’s house the doves that were painted on his wall wanted to scare Dylan because Dylan has bad dreams about the doves.

The doves wanted revenge. One by one each dove was getting off the wall to steal Dylan’s heart and mind. So that Dylan could turn into a bad child.

After school he was fine he played video games and ate dinner, and then it was time for him to go to bed.

He dreamed badly about the doves again but, this time his dream was worse than the last one. He had dreamed about him going to change his personality. When he woke up he was scared and also worried.

Dylan thought, “Could it be my friends who are going to change my personality?”

When he got to school his friends said “Dylan come with us.”

Dylan didn’t answer instead he ran.

“DYLAN” said his friends again shocked.

“What’s up with Dylan” said Lucas one of Dylan’s friends.

“He’s acting different” says Kevin.

“We have never seen him like this” says Lucas.

“What should we do to help him?” say all of them.

During lunch Dylan didn’t look at his friends he had moved far away from them.

Then all of the doves flew into his mind but, in spirits then Dylan starts acting different then he was before.

His teacher asked Dylan, “Dylan why are you acting differently you haven’t even started your work.”

Dylan didn’t answer.

His teacher says again “Dylan I’m talking to you!”

The bell rings. Dylan leaves class.

After class Dylan’s teacher talked to the principal about Dylan’s behavior. The principal promised Dylan’s teacher that she would talk to Dylan’s parents.

Before school ended Dylan’s principal talked to his parents and his parents said that they would talk to Dylan as soon as he got home from school.

When Dylan came home from school Dylan told his parents what had happened with the doves was wondering if he should tell his mom about the whole personality changing thing.

His mother said “Why didn’t you tell me before like when you were dreaming about the doves?”

Dylan didn’t answer.

Dylan’s dad asked Dylan “Dylan, do you want to go to a psychiatrist”.

Dylan said “Will that help me with anything?”

Dylan’s dad said “They will help you to try to forget about the doves and also will help you change your personality back to the way it was before”.

After 3 weeks of Dylan going to the psychiatrist he got better and he could hang out with his friends again.

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Archie Smith, Boy Wonder, Harris Burdick, Realistic Fiction, Writing

Archie Smith, Boy Wonder

In a small town called Iowa City a child named Archie was born.

10 Years later…
Archie’s mom has died and Archie now lives with his poor dad. Archie has been depressed due to his mom’s death. Without his mom he felt like not being alive. He finds out the have to move. Archie doesn’t want to move away from his friends.  He is moving to Dove Street East Fork Arizona. Before Archie can leave he has to pack up all of his stuff. As Archie is going through the stuff he needs to put in boxes he finds a pictures of his mom. He just cries. His Dad gets worried because he hasn’t seen Archie in about a half hour.

Dad yells “let’s go Archie”

“ok” Archie says in a moaning voice

This trailer is an old trailer. The trailer he lives in was built in 1989. Archie goes through the house/trailer to find a room. The room he picks feels weird to him. Well its kind of normal because he has an active imagination. He thinks the room might be possessed with demons. Archie and his Dad went to go get food. I wanted to go to Mc Donald’s

Dad said “ok.

Archie just went through the drive through because he didn’t want to go inside. It is time to go back home.
We got in a car accident because a driver slammed a tree and hit our car. The other driver was ok but Archie was not. The car that hit the tree had been hardly damaged but our car was dead and couldn’t be driven. Luckily Archie’s dad was able to get a rental car. The ambulance arrived and took Archie to the hospital. Archie suffered a head cut and he needed 15 stitches. He was in the hospital for 3 entire weeks. Archie’s dad was with him the whole time. After those 3 weeks Archie was released at 9:00 sharp right at his bedtime.

On the way home Archie about fell asleep 3 times. Archie was so tired that his dad could feel how tired he was. Every five minutes Archie’s dad would look up and he is almost asleep. As soon as Archie gets home he likes stumbles out of the rental car they are borrowing and heads inside. Archie goes to his room and puts on his pajamas. Archie still doesn’t feel right about his room but because he so tired he just hops into his bed.

A tiny, but sinister, voice asked, “Is he the one?”        harris lights

 

Harris Burdick, Mystery, The Seven Chairs, Writing

The Seven Chairs “The fifth one ended up in France”

 

A spiritual person sent 7 chairs to 6 different churches, and one chair to a different place that wasn’t a church.

Sunday evening in St. Patrick’s Church the nuns, priest and the acolytes were getting ready for the 5:00 p.m. mass. Before people were getting in, a nun was wondering why a mysterious chair  was in the confession room because the chair should not be there.

After the mass the nun was waiting for people to leave. After they’re all gone, she went back to get the chair and when she put it down she saw a light coming from the ceiling. She kept staring at it, it got brighter until a face appeared and started to talk to the nun

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and she replied to it.

On the next day, in St. Mary’s Church the people who attended mass went home and the people who work for the church is going to get  lunch, a nun who is about to go get lunch got a phone call from somebody but she didn’t answer it, while she’s getting out from the church she stopped and looked at a mysterious chair that she never seen before, when she touched it a light coming from the ceiling was just so bright until she noticed a face appeared and heard something and replied to it.

 

The 3rd chair was in the St. Joseph Church and the 4th chair was in St. Stephen’s Catholic Church where the bright light with the face appeared when the nuns touched it

 

and sat on it.

The fifth one ended up in France.  Where the nun sat on the chair and then saw the bright light.  That shows some little babies on a church with a lady that she is familiar with.

The 6th chair was in St. Johns Church and the nun just saw the chair and sat on it so she can pray, right after she sat a light flashed and it kept getting brighter and brighter until a face appeared and heard a message that only the nun can hear it.

The 7th chair was in Lourdes, France, where a nun was about to go home but before she does she stop at the grotto where the statue of Mother Mary was under a rock cave and in front of those are some benches and beside that is a chair where the nun sat and

 

while praying a dazzling light and a figure all dressed in white gave a message to the nun.

After a week, all 7 nuns went to a particular church and when they are all in there they prayed and another nun came out from a room and inviting them to come in.

The nun asks them “Do you still remember me?”

 

The 7 nuns were so confused until the nun told them that they are all sisters.

 

The nun told them a story about their mom. She was her friend and that all of you were raised by nuns and being adopted by different families and that is why you don’t get to see each other.

And all of them ask the same question, why all of us get to come to the church at the same time?