The Green House

This short story begins with a group of friends around the age of 14 years old, watched the new neighbours move into a new house and began painting their house the colour of green; not the same colour as the plants and trees, but the colour of a bad chemical. It says in this short story that every neighbourhood has it's green house, whether the house is purple, yellow or pink. They are all the same. Other neighbours talk about them behind their back and kids living in these green houses are sent to school with the most awful shirts ever designed in man kind. Every time teenagers would pass that house they would be thinking about the disgusting food they eat in there and the disgusting stuff they do in there as well. And they would be called the Gooks. One evening while walking to the park, they noticed the Gooks having a barbecue in their front yard, normally you would never see that. Barbecues are meant for the backyard. Everything in the barbecue was different from a normal barbecue. Once they started walking away, they stumbled on a dead squirrel on the sidewalk. They decided to pick it up with a one dollar bill and plot it on the Gook's grill so they can wake up to it tomorrow morning. The next time they saw the Gooks they always seemed to give the kids' an evil glare. Next, the boys decided to take the jugs that were placed on a carport and had peed in all of them and put them back in the same place, however they were all drunk off of wine and it was all about laughing and very hard for them to handle the whole scenario. There was another gathering that was smaller but was at the Gooks place. The kids came up with a plan to throw pine cones at the gathering and nobody seemed to notice that it was them for awhile. Then one boy said "F*** it!" And they all of a sudden started throwing large amounts of pine cones in the Gooks lawn. One boy decided to pick up a massive rock and threw it over the fencing, hitting Mrs. Gook right on the head. All of the boys sprinted out of there before anyone could capture them. After awhile, the boys decided to do a break-in, in the Gooks' resident. All the friends were destroying the whole house; ripping everything up, writing on the walls and breaking expensive items. They heard a noise and noticed the Gooks' had come home, everyone else left the house safely except for one boy which his name was not said. The Gooks' made sure he did not leave, they blocked the doorway and Mr. Karmapov, which was the real last name of the Gooks', pulled out a old fashioned camera and just told him to smile and took a picture. The theme of this short story is do not judge a book by it's cover, just because someone says this person acts this way because of many reasons, doesn't mean they are terrible people. Make sure you actually know the person before judging them.

The Kite Trick

This short story starts off to be about 15 pages long. The story starts off with the bright sun shining down at the breakfast table, with hot air but with a nice cooling breeze. A family had set themselves out to go on a vacation, including a 12 year old boy named Philip, who is a very smart kid but always keeps things to himself, never shows off or anything, English uncle Phil who was a typical musician; that looked older, had pale skin colour and without any defined muscles but was not fat or overweight, Aunt Sally who was the wife of Uncle Phil, Philip's mother and father as well as two younger siblings; one brother named Tommy and one sister by the name of Sasha. They decided to take their vacation to Jamaica then their next stop was Canada. In other words, their vacation was hot then cold, which was not a great idea for everyone in the family, they wanted it to be cold then hot. Considering this whole vacation was family time, they all had a big breakfast together just enough to fill them for the whole day. Once their meal was all done, Aunt Sally and Philip's mother and father made a final decision that they will go whale watching, while Uncle Phil and the three kids would drive to the famous "Long Beach." Uncle Phil and the kids had arrive to the beach safely, however they noticed the beach was very empty; they only noticed a yellow umbrella from a far distance that had looked as if there were only two people under it or maybe even more. But that did not stop any of them, they loved the fact that there was not very many people there. Uncle Phil wanted to go somewhere far away from any kind of people, even though there were barely any people, he quickly rushed to find a good spot. Sasha and Tommy wanted to play Save the Queen, which is a game that involves a queen, a stick or a shell or moulded sand, which you built a sandcastle including all the great walls that are specifically in a castle, all to keep the rising tide from getting in and drowning her. And of course, all three kids wanted Uncle Phil to be the Queen, meanwhile his kite is in the high air. However, this whole game did not end on a great note, Uncle Phil was all of a sudden not talking and his bottle of Gin started dripping from his mouth. They all noticed Uncle Phil was not breathing. Philip tried to save him and tried to get help, it was too late Uncle Phil's body was laying on the sand, with no breathing what so ever and with his head in the water. Everytime a new wave hit, all you could see was his kite trick, which was unknown in the story; Uncle Phil did not tell any of the kids what the actual kite trick was. The theme of this story is try not to take things for granted, be happy with what you got.