July 21st WSEIJM

I hope you guys don't mind a video instead of a piece of writing today.

~Snowie

July 20th WSEIJM

Blood Thirsty

That morning, I was woken up by a single dog bark. And then, one by one all of the dogs in my neighbor hood joined in. The howl rose above the roofs of the houses like a mourning cry. And, when the howl had ended, a single savage bark came from the  room below me. And then I heard my little brother Michael scream. 

I jumped out of bed and ran out my closed bedroom door. I slowed down when Miky stopped screaming. Mom must have taken care of it. A quiet moment draped over the house, like someone had taken a deep breath and couldn’t let it out. The house was never this quiet. I jumped when the AC turned on, but something was still off. 

My parent’s door to their bed room was opened just a foot, so I peeked inside. The lights were still off, but I could easily see two bodies laying in the bed. The sheets were thrown everywhere. Why hadn’t they gotten out of bed. Mikey’s scream was louder then their alarm clock.

“Mom. Dad. Wake up. I think Mikey had a nightmare.” I waited, and they didn’t so much as moan. Were they even breathing? I stepped in the room, feeling along the cool, bumpy wall for the plastic light switch. Finally, a chance to get back at them for waking me up via light all those times. I flipped on the light and immediately wished I hadn’t.

The whole bed was soaked red, like someone had poured crimson dye over the sheets. Some of the sheets were torn and others were wrapped around the pale limbs of my parents. I backed up, slamming into the wall before running out of the room. I ran downstairs to the kitchen and grabbed the phone. I dialed 911 as I grabbed the biggest knife I could find in the kitchen. The phone rang and rang and rang and rang. No one ever answered. Down the hall, Mikey screamed again. I dropped the phone and ran towards his room. What if the killer was hurting them? Oh, god. James. 

The door was already opened. I burst in, slamming the door against the wall. Mikey sat in the corner of his bed, far away from the door. His face was pale white and he was crying. From under the bed was a growl. I flipped on the light. 

Ramen stared at me, teeth bared. Blood dripped down his hairy chin. He was covered in the stuff. I held the knife in front of me. What the hell was going on? I tried to keep my eyes on the dog and not the person he was eating in the bottom bunk. Adrenaline rushed through my blood. I couldn’t breath steady. “Everything’s going to be okay, Mikey.”

Ramen lunged at me off the bed. I closed my eyes and held the knife out. Mikey screamed again. I fell to the floor as Ramen landed on top of me. He whimpered as the knife I held sank into his heart. 

I laid there gasping, waiting for Ramen to stop twitching. Warm blood leaked from Ramen’s body down the knife and onto my hands. I could feel Ramen’s muzzle against my neck and tried to not think about the blood that was on his chin. Ramen let out a final breath. I pushed the dog off of me and sat up. I looked down at the knife that was sunk a few inches into Ramen’s chest. And I finally had the sense to cry.

I thought it was all a dream. And for a while, I kept thinking that I was stuck in some sort of nightmare. But, it was very much real. 

I should be dead right now. But, by a chance of luck, I am still alive, and so is Michael. Now that I look back on everything that has happened, I’m not sure if I should call it luck. Luck would have been dying. It would have been a lot less painful. No, what happened to me and Mikey that day, was not luck. It was a really terrible fate.

My name is Julie Swartz. The date is May 4^th, 2012. This is the day the whole world went to hell.

This is the first "chapter" of The Day The Dogs Went Wild. 

It is pretty rough and in need of lots of work, but I am hoping to turn it in to a novella or something of the sort. 

~Snowie

July 19th WSEIJM

IN THE LAND OF LIGHT AND STONE

In the Land

Of Light and Stone

Sun beats down

Cooking the Earth to the core.

A blistering cold

When in the depth

Of a cold white.

To the nonobservant

A desolate wasteland

And to the observant

Blooming with life

Soaring ashen mountains

Layered in reds and whites

Hold keys to the past

A time long gone

Uncovered inch by inch

By never ceasing winds

Over the past

Walk the creatures

Of the present

The strong will they hold

Carries them

Through long winters

Raging fires

And Summer’s heat

The Land of Light and Stone

Withholds for no man

As it barrels forward 

Towards a certain fate

As the ashen mountains fade

Into the meadows that surround them. 

The Land of Light and Stone

Speaks of the Earth’s power

How a single drop of water

A single gust of wind

Changes the land forever

How with time

Comes change

As the Earth spins

The world’s cycles 

Shift and Rotate

In to a new era of history

The Land of Light and Stone

Is more than it seems

It’s more than Light

And Stone.

~Snowie

July 18th WSEIJM

Trigger Point

Anger

Builds up

Inside me

Ready to go off

Like a gun.

Maiming, 

Killing

Everything

In it's path.

Woah there. So, a bunch of intense poems right in a row there, what's up with that? How about we lighten the mood with another book review.

Insurgent by Veronica Roth

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Insurgent was a very, very, very good book and I'm glad I picked it up the moment I saw it in the library. Insurgent is the sequel to Divergent, and both are dystopian novels. If you haven't read Divergent, I highly recommend you do before reading Insurgent. Also, if a long time has passed since reading Divergent, you might want to review what happened, otherwise Insurgent is a little confusing. For now I'll pretend you have read Divergent and just dive right in. 

Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off after the Erudite's simulation attack on the Abnegation. Tris and Tobias (Four) are on their way to Amity headquarters to take cover from the Erudite and figure out what they should do. With war on the horizon, secrets are about to be discovered and relationships are put to the test. Tris discovers that Marcus, Tobias's abusive father, and Johanna, an Amity leader, are privy to a secret that could change everything. It is the secret that caused Jeanine, the Erudite leader, to attack the Abnegation. Tris makes a choice to discover this secret no matter the cost. 

Roth's words and ideas are an effortless read. They seem to come right off the page and pull you into the story. It was really hard to put this book down. All of the characters had multiple layers and grew and changed throughout the book, and I love Tris's relationship with Tobias. I would recommend this book to anyone with a dystopian or fantasy obsession.

Happy Reading!

~Snowie

July 17th WSEIJM

Open

I wear my heart on my sleeve.

Or do I?

I'm smiling at most anything.

Or am I?

When I'm hurt, 

I cry. 

You can see if I'm mad

Just by my face. 

I smile to cover

Hate

Annoyance

Embarrassment

Truth it

I can't handle pain

And worry. 

The worry

Drives me insane. 

I'm like a clam

Closing myself

Hiding my true feelings

The true me

Placing an average shell

Around me

I'm the pearl inside

Waiting to be found

Someday, maybe

Just maybe

I'll open

Show the pearl I am.

I'll wear my heart on my sleeve. 

Someday I'll be

Me.

July 16th WSEIJM

Stronger

Here I go again

Overreacting as usual

Over you

I've tried to love you

I've tried to just be friends

But I can't

I can't just be friends

Not with you

Not when you're so...

So imperfectly perfect

And it's had to take it

All the pain, I mean

The pain of you

Falling out of love

With me

I can't just be friends

We have to be more

Or nothing at all.

Being stuck in the middle

In limbo

Hurts

Now, I think,

I can safely say

We're nothing at all

It was wrong

To even get my hopes up

I knew we would never

Ever

Work.

But I let myself believe

Believe that there was hope

For a you and me

A me and you

So I let you in

And everything burned. 

Now, I'm walking through the ashes

Picking up pieces of me

Destroying the pieces of you.

Slowly, but surely

Bit by bit

I'm deleting you.

I'm done with the pain.

I'm done with the drama.

I'm leaving you

In the ashes

Because I deserve more

I deserve so much better

I've realized that

I don't need you

With me.

I don't need you.

I only need me.

And the next time

I fall in love, 

No, the first time

I truly fall in love

Is when I learn

To love

Me. 

July 15th WSEIJM

I stand Alone

Here I stand alone

There used to be many of my kind

We weren't a grove

But one tree

All of them grew from me.

Unable to run,

We stood our ground

From a fiery, deathly sound.

The fires came,

The fires raged

And to this day their ashes stay

Here I stand alone