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EmoRotweiler

1:20pm Oct 1 2009 (last edited on 6:04pm Oct 12 2009)

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As I lie in bed listening to the faint tapping of raindrops colliding with the window pane, mixed thoughts race through my mind.  I let out a longing sigh, rolling onto my right side; I fix my eyes on a small kitten that sleeps peacefully beside me. The kitten’s chest rising and falling and the whisper of his breath against my pale skin managed a small smile out of me that withered away moments later when the somber silence is broken with a knock on my door.  Unwillingly I get up, pull a shirt over my head and continue groggily to my door.  With a quick turn of the knob I open the door to see my mother's concerned face. I retreat back to my bed awaiting the speech I am about to receive. She proceeds in and sits on the foot of my bed and looks at me with tear filled eyes. I suddenly feel curiosity rise from deep within me and I look at her, “mom what’s wrong?" I say mildly concerned. “your father, he and I are getting a divorce" she replies, her voice cracking and depression in twining with the words. My heart beat seemed to stop as I hear the words divorce.  I try to force back the warm tears but they start to streak down my saddened face, new thoughts race through my mind which make my tears stream down faster. One thought stuck out the most, the memory of kindergarten, me and a friend were playing with small plastic trinkets talking about what is going on and my friend said " my parents are splitting up, I heard them arguing and daddy left" I looked up at him and said proudly " my parents are never going to split up!" but what I didn't know is what was happening behind my back.

Cheating, Lying, Are only the majority of the problems that lingered around my parents. I found out that my father had met a girl, she wasn't very pretty. She had long greasy black hair, dull brown eyes that seemed empty and cold as the tundra. She was a heavy smoker, and because of that her teeth were yellow and her breath smelled atrocious. Her skin was pale and dry. She always reeked of booze and cigarettes. She always dressed like she was going to stay inside all day with her pajama pants and messy t-shirt. Her job was indescribable and disgusting. She was a stripper. I couldn’t believe that my father would leave my mother for her. When I met her, she gave me games to win my fathers heart even more. It was pathetic, and a sick way to improve her chances of keeping my father wrapped around her little finger. I refused to talk to my father until one day when he texted me saying, " you have a new little baby brother".

As soon as I read it, the stitches that pieced my heart together came loose and my heart shattered once again. I threw the phone at the wall and broke down. My legs collapsed from underneath me causing me to fall to the floor, tears streaming down my cheeks, I curled my hands into a fist so tight my knuckles turned white. At that time my mother had rushed in to see me on my knees whispering between sobs "no". Mother then picked my phone up and read the text, I saw her face turn red, and she was furious and walked out of my room to her bedroom. Suddenly I heard her yelling angrily and I could tell she had called him from my phone. But I stay there not moving a muscle, I wanted so bad to just escape from this world, from my mistakes, from my problems, and leave them behind. Soon I had cried myself to sleep. My dreams were haunted by the lingering presence of my father; I remembered his scent, his expensive cologne and aftershave, what he looked like, his bristly goatee, icy blue eyes, his sleek black hair, and nicely ironed shirts. All that had disappeared, now I recognized a new scent, cigarettes, boo's, sweat. His eyes turned dull and I watched my father morph into someone I’ve never known. He was a shell of his former self. He was an alcoholic, a drug addict, a heavy smoker, and a depressed man. I suddenly awoke to my cat pawing at my face.

 I realized I was crying in my sleep, my eyes burned and were blood shot. Dry tear streaks temporarily stained my face. I cringed in pain as another heart broken pang struck my body. I occasionally attempt to stand on my own but sore muscles and sadness pull me back down to my knees, so I used my bed to heave my numb body up. Step by step I made my way into the kitchen to get a gl*censored* of water. I froze in place as I saw visions of me and my dad, bad ones. I remembered how mean he was; I cringed in pain as one memory showed itself. I was ten and I did something I knew I wasn’t supposed to do, I had yelled at father, suddenly his face turned red and his eyes were filled with hate and anger, I ran into my room, locked my door and hid under my bed. I lied there listening to footsteps landing heavily on the wood flooring. A loud bang went off and my door flew off the hinges and hit my bed, he came in and grabbed my arm and hit me until parts of me were bruised, he threw me on the bed and stormed off, leaving me trembling, injured, and crying. At that time mother was at work, my brother was at work as well, and my handicapped sister slept in her room unaware of what had just happened. She was just as scared of him as I was, he punished us both brutally, I felt sorry for her, she never knew why he punished her or why she had gotten in trouble in the first place, she was mentally and physically disabled causing speech, learning, and walking problems. After the vision had disintegrated it took my ability to stand with it and I collapsed onto the kitchen floor breathless.

and just cuz i wanted to BEWARE ITS IN FRENCH!:

Comme je me couche au lit en écoutant la course légère tapant des gouttes de pluie en collision avec la vitre, les pensées mélangé dans ma tête. Je laisse échapper un soupir nostalgie, de rouler sur mon côté droit, je fixer mon regard sur un petit chaton qui ne dort paisiblement à côté de moi. Le coffre du chaton en hausse et en baisse et le murmure de son souffle sur ma peau pâle géré un petit sourire de moi que dépéri instants plus tard, quand le silence est brisé sombre avec une frappe à ma porte. Mal gré, je me lève, tirez une chemise sur la tête et continuer chancelant à ma porte. Avec un tour rapide de la molette J'ouvre la porte pour voir le visage préoccupé de ma mère. Je bats en retraite vers mon lit attendant le discours que je m'apprête à recevoir. Elle procède en plus de siéger au pied de mon lit et me regarde les yeux remplis de larmes. Je me sens soudainement augmenter la curiosité du plus profond de moi et je la regarde, "Whats maman tort
?" Je dis légèrement concerné. "Ton père, lui et moi sommes en instance de divorce» répond-elle, sa voix c*censored*ée et la dépression dans le jumelage avec mots. Mon coeur battait a semblé s'arrêter que j'entends les mots de divorce.J'essaie de refouler les larmes chaudes, mais ils commencent à rayer sur mon visage attristé, les nouvelles pensées course dans ma tête qui me font les larmes coulent plus rapidement. Une pensée sortait le plus, le souvenir de la maternelle, moi et un ami jouaient avec de petites babioles en plastique à parler de ce qui se p*censored*e et mon ami m'a dit: «Mes parents se séparent, je les ai entendus discuter, et papa de gauche» Je levai les yeux et lui dit fièrement: «Mes parents vont jamais se séparer! mais ce que je ne savais pas, c'est ce qui se p*censored*ait derrière mon dos.

, Le mensonge, trichent seulement la majorité des problèmes qui perdurent autour de mes parents. J'ai découvert que mon père avait rencontré une fille, elle n'était pas très jolie. Elle avait de longs cheveux gras noir, yeux ternes et bruns qui semblait vide et froide comme la toundra. Elle a été un gros fumeur, et de ce fait ses dents étaient jaunes et son haleine sentait atroce. Sa peau était pâle et sec. Elle a toujours empestait l'alcool et des cigarettes. Elle était toujours vêtue comme si elle allait rester à l'intérieur toute la journée avec son pantalon de pyjama et t-shirt sale. Son travail était indeible et dégoûtant. Elle était une strip-teaseuse. Je ne pouvais croire que mon père allait quitter ma mère pour elle.Quand je l'ai rencontrée, elle m'a donné des jeux à gagner mes pères coeur encore plus. Il était pathétique et un moyen de maladie afin d'améliorer ses chances de garder mon père, enroulé autour de son petit doigt. J'ai refusé de parler à mon père jusqu'à ce qu'un jour, quand il texted moi en disant: «Vous avez un frère nouveau petit bébé».

Dès que je l'ai lu, les points qui reconstitué mon cœur ensemble se sont desserrés et mon cœur brisé une fois de plus. J'ai jeté le téléphone dans le mur et se rompit. Mes jambes s'est effondré, p*censored*ant en dessous de moi me faisant tomber à l'étage, des larmes coulant sur mes joues, je frisé mes mains dans un poing si serré mes doigts sont devenus blancs. A cette époque, ma mère s'était précipitée pour me voir sur mes genoux, chuchotant entre deux sanglots "non". Mère alors pris mon téléphone et lu le texte, j'ai vu son visage rouge, tournez, et elle était furieuse et je suis sorti de ma chambre dans sa chambre. Soudain, j'ai entendu ses cris de colère et je pourrais dire qu'elle l'avait appelée à partir de mon téléphone. Mais je reste là ne bouge pas un muscle, je voulais si mal d'échapper à tout ce monde, de mes erreurs, de mes problèmes, et de les laisser derrière. Bientôt, j'ai pleuré moi-même pour dormir. Mes rêves sont hantés par la présence persistante de mon père;Je me suis souvenu de son parfum, son eau de Cologne cher et après-rasage, à quoi il ressemblait, sa barbe hirsute, les yeux bleus glacés shirts ses cheveux noirs lisses et bien rep*censored*és,. Tout ce qui avait disparu, aujourd'hui, j'ai reconnu un nouveau parfum, des cigarettes, boo, de la sueur. Ses yeux se tournèrent terne et j'ai regardé mon père dans morph quelqu'un que je ne l'ai jamais connu. Il était une coquille de lui-même. Il était un alcoolique, un drogué, un gros fumeur, et un homme déprimé. Je me suis soudain réveillé à mon chat qui piaffe à mon visage.

Je me rendis compte que je pleurais dans mon sommeil, mes yeux brûlés et ont été abattus de sang. Dry lacrymogènes stries temporairement taché mon visage. J'ai rampé dans la douleur comme un autre serrement de cœur brisé frappé mon corps. Je tente parfois de se tenir sur la mienne, mais les douleurs musculaires et la tristesse me tirer vers le bas sur mes genoux, donc j'ai utilisé mon lit pour pousser mon corps engourdi up. Étape par étape, j'ai fait mon chemin dans la cuisine pour obtenir un gl * censuré * de l'eau. J'ai congelé en place comme je vis des visions de moi et mon papa, les mauvaises. Je me rappelais comment veux dire qu'il était, je rampé dans la douleur comme une mémoire elle-même a montré.J'avais dix ans et j'ai fait quelque chose que je savais que je n'étais pas censé faire, j'avais crié à mon père, tout à coup son visage est devenu rouge et ses yeux étaient pleins de haine et de colère, j'ai couru dans ma chambre, verrouillé ma porte et se cacha sous mon lit. J'ai menti là, à écouter le bruit des pas d'atterrissage lourdement sur le sol en bois. Une forte détonation est parti et ma porte a volé hors des gonds et a frappé mon lit, il entra et saisit mon bras et m'a frappée pour que les parties de moi ont été meurtri, il me jeta sur le lit et ont pris d'*censored*aut au large, me laissant tremblante, blessés, et à pleurer. Au temps que la mère était au travail, mon frère était à l'œuvre aussi bien, et ma sœur handicapée a dormi dans sa chambre sans savoir ce qui s'était p*censored*é. Elle était tout aussi peur de lui que j'étais, il nous a punis à la fois brutalement, j'ai eu pitié d'elle, elle n'a jamais su pourquoi il l'a punie, ni pourquoi elle avait eu des démêlés en premier lieu, elle était mentalement et physiquement handicapés causant la parole , l'apprentissage et des problèmes de marche. Après la vision s'était désintégrée elle a pris ma capacité à tenir avec elle et je me suis effondré sur le plancher de la cuisine souffle.




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 _Ranvier

1:53pm Oct 1 2009

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You need to fix a lot of punctuation and some grammar.

Make sure you capitalize.

Books need to have that stuff fixed.

You have a lot of run on sentances, too.

Take out some commas.

Try shortening the sentences.

Make sure you double check for typos and such.

I think you need a lot of work still before this could become a book.

But practice makes perfect. c:





EmoRotweiler

3:42pm Oct 1 2009 (last edited on 5:42pm Oct 1 2009)

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 fixed some of the problems



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EmoRotweiler

10:52am Oct 10 2009

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bumplestiltskin XD



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Yoshi

7:10pm Oct 10 2009

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I like the imagery and strong words, but the constantly changing tense and, as Uweh said, run-on sentences, really distracted me from the story. It actually distracted me so much that I find I don't even remember what all happened. D:

Paragraphing would help too. It helps break the story down and set pacing, which would probably keep the reader focused more. Seeing a giant wall of text is usually pretty daunting; makes me immediately want to think, 'tl;dr'.

And if you meant alcohol, the slang is 'booze'. x3 At first you had me confused, thinking of ghosts instead.




EmoRotweiler

7:16pm Oct 10 2009

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yoshi & uweh: i havent a clue what run-on sentences are *brain is malfunctioning* :3~ yoshi your siggy made me laugh XD



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Yoshi

8:21pm Oct 10 2009 (last edited on 8:22pm Oct 10 2009)

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Apologies in advance for the tons of writing. xD I get.. pretty into this stuff.

Run-ons occur when you should end a sentence, but instead join it with another with a comma or even nothing at all. A good example, with a few of them in a row (as well as that distracting present tense that sticks out from the rest of the writing), is this.

'I try to force back the warm tears but they start to streak down my saddened face, new thoughts race through my mind which make my tears stream down faster. One thought stuck out the most, the memory of kindergarten, me and a friend were playing with small plastic trinkets talking about what is going on and my friend said " my parents are splitting up, I heard them arguing and daddy left"'

The first 'sentence' should be separated into two, because both parts are independent clauses. They function just fine as their own sentences, but when put together as one sentence, unless you modify them somewhere or use a semicolon in its ability to be like a lesser period, they don't work. Since they relate closely to each other, I would personally use a semicolon, but using a period, adding a conjunction, or rewording one to become a dependent clause would work as well.

The second part consists of several small, choppy sentences, all stuck together with commas and an 'and'. When I got here while reading the story, I actually had to spend several moments trying to sate my grammar obsession by rewording it all in my head. x3 The best thing I can say for something like this would be to reword it; simply adding periods (and maybe a dash or colon, like I would do for the first comma) would make it, as said before, really choppy.

Also, I don't think I've ever met a four- or five-year-old who knows the phrase 'splitting up', or even knows what getting a divorce really means, other than that one parent would be going away. o: That bothered me slightly.

Ohyahs. It would be good to remember that every time a new person speaks, a new paragraph should be started, no matter what. And the breaks you added help, although I'd say you could probably still manage to break those down even further.

Harr. I find it hilarious. I saw it and just had to use it in my signature. xD




FallenDream

12:03am Oct 11 2009

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it was good and I think you can make it into a story but like yoshi and uwi said about the run-on sentences. Oh and I think that you should mention the siblings in the first paragraph some where cuz it was kinda confusing, But thats just my opinion.Laughingtle="Laughing" />
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