1. Her mom had warned her. She had been warned time and again, but she
had refused to believe her. She had done everything right and she knew
she would be rewarded for doing so with the promotion. So when the
promotion was given to her main rival, it not only stung, it threw her
belief system into disarray. It was her first big lesson in life, but not
the last.
2. She wondered if the note had reached him. She scolded herself for not
handing it to him in person. She trusted her friend, but so much could
happen. She waited impatiently for word.
3. It was their first date and she had been looking forward to it the
entire week. She had her eyes on him for months, and it had taken a
convoluted scheme with several friends to make it happen, but he'd
finally taken the hint and asked her out. After all the time and effort
she'd invested into it, she never thought that it would be anything but
wonderful. It goes without saying that things didn't work out quite as
she expected.
4. I don’t like cats and they don’t like me. I used to be allergic to
them and I would get stuffed up and have hives. That doesn’t seem to
happen anymore. But I still don’t like them. I lived with 3 cats that
were not good at peeing in the litter box. They seemed to find something
important to me and pee on it. Most of the time they peed on photographs
or papers that would be ruined. Cats also bring fleas into the house.
There is nothing worse than having to flea dip cats and also flea bomb a
home. That is why I don’t like cats.
5. She sat down with her notebook in her hand, her mind wandering to
faraway places. She paused and considered all that had happened. It
hadn't gone as expected. When the day began she thought it was going to
be a bad one, but as she sat recalling the day's events to write them
down, she had to admit, it had been a rather marvelous day.
6. Dave watched as the forest burned up on the hill, only a few miles
from her house. The car had been hastily packed and Marta was inside
trying to round up the last of the pets. Dave went through his mental
list of the most important papers and documents that they couldn't leave
behind. He scolded himself for not having prepared these better in
advance and hoped that he had remembered everything that was needed. He
continued to wait for Marta to appear with the pets, but she still was
nowhere to be seen.
7. He collected the plastic trash on a daily basis. It never seemed to
end. Even if he cleaned the entire beach, more plastic would cover it the
next day after the tide had come in. Although it was a futile effort that
would never be done, he continued to pick up the trash each day.
8. Her breath exited her mouth in big puffs as if she were smoking a
cigarette. The morning dew had made her clothes damp and she shivered
from the chill in the air. There was only one thing that could get her up
and out this early in the morning.