Thursday, September 23, 2010

Of Mice and Men: The Untold Chapter


     Once upon a time, on a dark and stormy night, George was putting one of the ranch's horses in its stall in the barn. He heard the sweet voice of Curley's wife, "Hi, George." George looked up in haste. Standing in the door of the barn was none other than Curley's wife.
George said, “You’d get outta the barn. You ain't wanted here. You just gonna cause trouble with a capital "T"."
Curley's wife spoke with scorn, “Hold yer horses. I ain't gonna stir up some trouble. I just need someone to talk to."
Then their eyes met. They fell head over heels in love. It was love at first sight. George's hair stood on end. Then George caught a hold of himself. He looked down at the ground.
"You ain't supposed to be on here. I don't want no trouble.", said George quietly.
"Well, I ain't givin you no trouble, now am I?” responded Curley's wife.
Curley's wife came over from the doorway.
"What will happen to us if Curley finds out? I'll get fired. Me, Lennie, and Candy had a plan. We was going to buy our own ranch.", asked George.
"We can never be together.” George continued.
"Yes we can. All is fair in love and war. Besides, Curley will never find out. He's too busy picking fights to care for me" said Curley's wife. "Come on George, love is in the air."
"I gotta go. The others are waiting for me.", replied George.
"George, don't leave me! Your know as well as I do, love conquers all.", pleaded Curley's Wife.
Needless to say, it took George all his will power to walk away. As George was leaving, he could hear Curley's Wife begging him to stay, but he never turned back.

Friday, September 10, 2010

NASA's First Moon Landing

     I may seem like an ordinary high school student to many. But the fact is I am anything but ordinary. I am not to be judged so quickly, because I have two powers many people dream of having. Have you ever wondered how NASA got its first rocket ship all the way to the moon? Well, here I tell the story for the first and possibly the only time. NASA had tried many times to get their rocket ships into outer space. All of them failed miserably. I had come by a couple of years before, and asked them if they required assistance. They had refused. So I told them where they could find me. On July 10, 1969, I got a call from NASA, saying they desperately needed my help. So, I got a ride in NASA's private jet and was at NASA's main base by July 12, 1969. I asked NASA what the problem was, and they told me however hard they tried, the rockets of their rocket ships didn't have enough power to reach outer space, let alone the moon. So I told them I would gladly help. They got their newest rocket and rocket ship they had ready, the Apollo 11, and prepared for departure on July 16, 1969. I stood under the rocket, and because one of my powers was I could never get burned or injured due to heat, the intense heat of the rockets did not affect me whatsoever. My job was to push the rocket ship upward to give it an extra boost. I was the one asked because of my second superpower: super strength. I mean extreme super strength. Not the kind superman has. Compared to me, superman would seem as weak as a mortal seems to superman. So I pushed the Apollo 11 up so high, they needed barely any fuel power to get it into outer space. This mission was a success. So in the end, it was not only NASA's scientists who made the Apollo 11 mission successful. According to NASA, it was I who was the key part of landing the first men on the moon. The time that would go down in history forever.