100 Word Challenge - Week 21

The silence was deafening. Stoughton and Morris were down to their last rocks in the final game of the world cup of curling. Morris, his face as red as a fire truck, had one chance to steal the game away from Stoughton.  The rock felt heavier than he remembered, his hands shaking. As the rock left his fingers he turned around and slowly looked back to see his rock in the 4 foot, an inch away from the button. It all came down to Stoughton. Cool as a cucumber, he cleaned the debris off his rock. He gently slid down the ice and released his hand.

100 Word Challenge Week 20

Chugga Chugga Chugga Choo

CHOO! CHOO! The train whistled as the last few people were boarding. My family hopped on, well, that was the plan but only my three-year-old brother Adam made it before the doors slammed shut into my fathers face. As the train chugged away, my mom was in shock.  Adam was miserable.  Other passengers didn’t know what to do.  To cheer him up a kind elder with grey hair offered him a ham sandwich. As my brother was crying, he saw a hyena try to climb to the top of his cage.  The train finally came to a complete stop and Adam crawled into my mother’s arms.