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I posted and saw a Huna next to my name. Totally forgot about that, lol. Which means I don't have a three-year anniversary special.
Let's see if I can type something up really quick:
A darkly clad figured panted as he stumbled down a black, wet alleyway. He grabbed on to a smooth, concrete wall, attempting to catch his breath but started running again as the footsteps behind him neared. He side ran into a tin trash bin and he cursed in pain, but kept on, pushing himself off of the rusted metal. He willed himself on, yelling at himself in his mind to keep going. His feet ached. His legs ached. His arms ached. His lungs ached. His head throbbed. But he continued on. For that is what one does when he knows the end is near.
He turned the corner onto a sidestreet, hoping to gain the attention of the cops. But there was no one there. No one to save him. He looked behind him; tears and sweat visible on his face. He tripped as the sidewalk jutted up from a tree root, falling hard onto the rough sidewalk. His hands and knees burned. His body screamed at him to just lay down and say "Screw it" but he kept going. He had to.
Death was the only other option.
He lifted his head up, the globules of sweat falling from his strands of wet hair. He pushed up with his scratched palms and took off running again. His breath was heavy, and his lungs felt like they were about to explode. He couldn't go on further.
No, he cried, I must go on. I must.
He turned down another alley where he met a dead-end. There was no where to go; this was where he would die.
Running up to the wall, he pounded on the hard surface, trying to get away from his impending doom. His hands clawed away, giving one last attempt to save his life when a loud, sharp bang! was heard.
A bullet impaled his body as he was thrown against the wall, only to be hit with two more. His body slumped to the ground, lifeless.
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Lol, that started out because of basketball conditioning and all the running we did, so I had the idea of someone panting and running for his life. Then I thought I'd do a "spinoff" of Hope, in a way, since like both are trying to stay alive. =P And there's the result.
I need to do more bursts of writing like that more often. I actually haven't written in a while . . .
So let's see here. Not much else left to say, really. I did go to Book Off again to get some more books yesterday, which was cool:
- The Big Four -- Agatha Christie. They just got a fairly large Agatha Christie section [like twenty books or more] and I wanted to buy them all, but they were $3.50 so I decided on just the four I thought sounded the coolest.
- Crooked House -- Agatha Christie
- The Clocks -- Agatha Christie
- The Mysterious Mr. Quin -- Agatha Christie
- The Complete Stories -- Dorothy L. Sayers. I've had Sayers' works recommended to me [she wrote crime novels], and I haven't been able to find anything until now, so I decided to try it out. Plus, I love short story collections.
- The Big Bad City -- Ed McBain [87th Precinct series]. Same as above. I was really surprised I found two authors that I hadn't been able to find before, lol.
- Pursuit of Honor -- Vince Flynn. Only four more left of his books to get! Unfortunately they didn't have those four or else I would have bought them without thinking twice.
- The Cardinal of the Kremlin -- Tom Clancy. Another Tom Clancy book. You can't go wrong with him.
- Executive Orders -- Tom Clancy
- Marine Sniper -- Charles Henderson. Tells the true story of the Marine Sniper Sergeant Carlos Hathcock; Marine legend. This I literally saw on the way out [the "MARINE SNIPER" is hard to not see, especially when in bright red letters =P] and thought it looked cool, especially since my two main characters [Vince and Ivan -- aka Velox and Iavo] are both Marine Snipers, so it's a good resource book.
- The War of the Worlds -- H. G. Wells. I've heard Wells is really good, and I also heard that this book in particular was really good, so I got it.
- Remember Me -- Mary Higgins Clark. I enjoyed A Cry in the Night, so decided to get a couple more of her books for just a dollar each.
- We'll Meet Again -- Mary Higgins Clark
• Oresteia – Aeschylus
• Persuasion – Jane Austin
• Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
• Trophy Hunt – C.J. Box
• Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury -- Read
• Flags of Our fathers – James Bradley
• Death Comes for the Archbishop – Willa Cather
• O Pioneers – Willa Cather
• The Complete Father Brown – G.K. Chesterton
• Father Brown of the Church of Rome – G. K. Chesterton
• The Ballad of the White Horse – G.K. Chesterton
• And Then There Were None – Agatha Christie -- Read
• The Big Four – Agatha Christie
• The Clocks – Agatha Christie
• Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories – Agatha Christie
• Crime Collection: Peril at End House, The Body in the Library, Hercule Poirot Christmas – Agatha Christie -- Partially Read
• Crooked House – Agatha Christie
• Five Little Pigs – Agatha Christie
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd -- Agatha Christie
• Murder on the Orient Express -- Agatha Christie -- Read
• The Mysterious Mr. Quin -- Agatha Christie
• Poirot Investigates -- Agatha Christie -- Read
• The White Mountains – John Christopher
• The Cardinal of Kremlin – Tom Clancy
• Clear and Present Danger –Tom Clancy
• Debt of Honor – Tom Clancy
• Executive Orders – Tom Clancy
• The Hunt for Red October -- Tom Clancy -- Watched the movie =P
• Patriot Games -- Tom Clancy -- Read
• A Cry in the Night – Mary Higgins Clark -- Read
• Remember Me -- Mary Higgins Clark
• We’ll Meet Again -- Mary Higgins Clark
• Artemis Fowl – Eoin Colfer -- Read
• Mr. Blue – Miles Connolly -- Read
• Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
• The Red Badge of Courage and Four Stories – Stephen Crane
• Timeline – Michael Crichton
• 165 Days of Combat – James Cutter [my grandpa; a collection of letters he wrote when he was in combat] -- Partially Read
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens -- Read
• A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
• A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
• Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
• Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Hound of the Basklervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, adapted by Malvina G. Vogel -- Read
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• The Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- Read
• Silas Marner – George Eliot
• Murder in the Cathedral – T.S. Eliot
• The Waste Land – T.S. Eliot
• Time Trap – Greg Farshety -- Read
• Island of Doom -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Dark destiny -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Power Play -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Legacy of Evil -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Inferno -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• City of the Lost -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Prisoners of the Pit -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Downfall -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Shadows in the Sky -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• Swamp of Secrets -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• The Final Battle -- Greg Farshety -- Read
• The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Term Limits – Vince Flynn -- Read
• Executive Power -- Vince Flynn
• Consent to Kill -- Vince Flynn
• Act of Treason -- Vince Flynn
• Protect and Defend -- Vince Flynn
• Extreme Measures -- Vince Flynn
• Pursuit of Honor -- Vince Flynn
• The Poetry of Robert Frost – Robert Frost, Edited by Edward Connery Lathern -- Partially Read
• Lord of the Flies – William Golding -- Read
• The CORPS: Semper Fi – W.E.B. Griffin -- Read
• The Federalist Papers – Alexander Hamilton, John Madison, and John Jay
• The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorn
• CliffNotes: Hawthorn’s The Scarlet Letter
• The Sun Also Rises – Earnest Hemingway
• The Old Man and the Sea – Earnest Hemingway
• The Short Stories of Earnest Hemingway – Earnest Hemingway -- Partially Read
• Marine Sniper – Charles Henderson
• Stormbreaker – Anthony Horowitz
• A Separate Peace – John Knowles -- Read
• To Kill A Mocking Bird – Harper Lee -- Read
• The song at the Scaffold – Gerund von LeFort
• The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
• The Screwtape Letters – C.S. Lewis
• Space Trilogy: Out of the Silent Planet; Perelandra; That Hideous Strength – C.S. Lewis
• The Chronicles of Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew; The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; The Horse and His Boy; Prince Capsian; The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; The Silver Chair; The Last Battle – C.S. Lewis -- Read
• The Big bad City – Ed McBain
• Paradise Lost – John Milton -- Partially Read
• The Princess Bride – William Goldman
• The Complete Stories – Flannery O’Conner -- Partially Read
• The Violent Bear – Flannery O’Conner
• Batman Begins – Dennis O’Neil
• Animal Farm – George Orwell -- Read
• The Scarlet Pimpernel – Baroness Orezy
• The Essential Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe – Edgar Allan Poe -- Partially Read
• Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe – Edgar Allan Poe -- Read
• The Raven and Other Poems – Edgar Allan Poe -- Read
• Where the Red Fern Grows – Wilson Rawls
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban – J.K. Rowling
• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire – J.K. Rowling
• The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
• The Complete Stories – Dorothy L. Sayers
• Ivan Hoe – Sir Walter Scott
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare – William Shakespeare -- Partially Read
• King Lear – William Shakespeare
• Macbeth – William Shakespeare -- Read
• The Merchant of Venice -- William Shakespeare
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream -- William Shakespeare -- Read
• Romeo and Juliet -- William Shakespeare -- Read
• Frankenstein – Mary Shelly -- Read
• A Light in the Attic – Shel Silverstein -- Read
• Falling Up -- Shel Silverstein -- Read
• Where the Sidewalk Ends -- Shel Silverstein -- Read
• The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and other stories – Robert Louis Stevenson
• Air Raid-Pearl Harbor – Theodore Taylor -- Read
• The Hobbit x2 – J.R.R. Tolkien -- Read [only one version, since I have two sets -- same for the LotR series]
• The Fellowship of the Ring x2 -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Read
• The Two Towers x2 -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Read
• The Return of the King x2 -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- Read
• The Silmarillion -- J.R.R. Tolkien
• Unfinished Tales -- J.R.R. Tolkien
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
• The Prince and the Pauper – Mark Twain
• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea – Jules Verne -- Read
• Helena – Evelyn Waugh
• The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
• The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays – Oscar Wilde -- Partially Read
• The Importance of Being Earnest – Oscar Wilde -- Read
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey – Thornton Wilder
• Our Town – Thornton Wilder -- Read
• The Glass Menagerie – Tennessee Williams -- Read
As you can see, most of the stuff I have I actually haven't read. I hope to read most [ if not all] of what's on there, plus more. Right now I'm at ~a book a week, which I hope to continue all of this year. Currently reading Storm Front -- Jim Butcher [you happy, Aaron? =P].
. . . And that's about it. Time to eat and then go to sleep! =P
- Velox
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