Andrew Richardson
The Train Goes Nowhere
Submitted by diggity12 on April 30, 2008 - 11:55.Andrew Richardson
Young Writers Project
Writing prompt #30
The Train Goes Nowhere
The old man sat by his lonesome towards the back of the train, and a spider began to crawl up his beard as if to say hello. Nothing was the same, now that everything; his family, his job, his memories, his life, were now lost. The old man his eyes from the deep sleep that he was put into.
He noticed a drunkard in the corner. She took to coma like a tired boy teeters back and forth because he’s so exhausted that he can barely stand up.
Five men were in the other corner playing dice. The cup, which had been used foe decades, looked like it had been thrown away, then reused a thousand times over. But the dice still rolled out of it and down to the other end of the train cart like an avalanche crashing down a mountain.
Now, as the fog steamed through the gunshot holes in the train like poisonous gas fills up a room, he took a good look at the people he had encountered and he noticed that his life was not over. He had just begun to live. He didn’t want to be stuck on this train for the rest of his life.
So, the old man brushed the spider off of his beard as if to say goodbye and he shaved his beard and jumped off of the train and entered the new world in which he had been searching for his whole life.
The Prom
Submitted by diggity12 on April 16, 2008 - 12:09.The Prom
By Andrew Richardson
Chelsea Public School, Grade 11
When I first entered high school I didn’t really know who or how I was going to ask someone to the prom. When I asked people they said that they were going with a group of people. I didn’t really want to go with a group of people so I decided to ask an upperclassman from Spaulding. At this time she was a junior and I was a freshman. I was kind of nervous but I knew her and that made everything a lot easier. So my advice for freshman in asking someone to be their prom date is just be yourself. Girls don’t like fake guys. And when you get to the prom, be outgoing and get out there and dance. Girls also love guys who aren’t afraid to dance and have a good time. If you don’t do this, you might find your date dancing with someone else.
My Grandfather
Submitted by diggity12 on April 1, 2008 - 12:08.By:Andrew Richardson
Chelsea Public School Grade 11
Writing Prompt #27
Am I Good Enough?
Submitted by sjoyce on March 29, 2008 - 10:14.Am I Good Enough?
By Andrew Richardson
Chelsea Public School, Grade 11
My fear is not being good enough. When people look at me I feel like a spectacle that everybody can point their fingers at whenever something goes wrong. I mean, I'm sixteen years old. I should be having the time of my life but no, I have to worry about who's saying what about me. Why do I have to be perfect? Can't it be someone else's job to take the heat for once? Am I so inadequate that I have to carry all of the negative energy on my shoulders? I try hard to be adequate. I take everything I do to the extreme just so that when I got to bed at night I know that nobody, at this very moment, is going to be upset at me. But yet, I know I'm not the only one who has this problem. Why are we all easy targets?
