Flabastian Mountain: A Short Story

Improved Essays
We were in the Mellonion forest, running for our lives, just Holly, Crank, Arty, and I, had just escaped another raid on the tyrants of Flabastian Mountain. This was the fourth attack we had planned this year, and it was going great until we ran into The Legend27. We would have planned more if we had not been on lock down for 3 months because of a mole somewhere in our camp. We had finally found the waste of a human life, we sentenced him to walk through the death swamp, and he had it coming. I was telling this to my grandchildren, Jeffery and Borkly, around the campfire, when Jeffery interrupted. “What were you doing raiding and attacking the Flabastians, Grandpa?” said Jeffery. “That is a great question Jeff! And the answer to that is …show more content…
Anyways, after she helped me out I ended up finding out that she was Hank Maxon’s daughter, the facilities director. Just for talking to Holly, Hank ordered to clean out the latrines, bathrooms, and the bunks. He even went out of the way and tried to make Holly never talk to me, but in her amazing stubbornness she said no, and since that day, Hank wasn’t as mean or cruel to me, he must have moved on to some fresh-meat that just transferred from some place in Ohio. As Holly and I got to know more about each other from talking, training together, doing chores and just hanging out, we started to spend more time with each other, and this is about halfway through the time I spent there. I was on my way to ask her a very important question, to ask her out, hey, hey, hey, calm down its not gross,” I said as they were starting to get uncomfortable. I explained, “It’s a great thing to do! Any ways, so on my way there this guy, Crank, ran up to me and said, “It’s from the director.” Therefore, he handed me an envelope with a big black stamped letters CLASSIFIED, I looked at him in shock and instantaneously opened the

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Jedediah Smith 1799-1831 Jedediah Smith was a mountain man. His mother was Sally Smith. His dad was Jedediah Strong Smith. He was killed by Native Americans on the 27th of May 1831. He lived in Wyoming.…

    • 237 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Fremont. Sounds familiar right? John Charles Fremont was an outrageous mountain man. He built traps, he caught his food, killed his food, and got skins from the animals that he killed. He was amazing!…

    • 586 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Francesco Petrarch Living a fulfilling life is what every man wants. At times there are things that will get in the way of that. Laziness and finding the easy way out, weakness to earthly impulses, and losing sight of the soul all prevent man from living the desired life. However, it can be controlled as long as a man is willing to work hard enough. Then one can live life to their fullest expectation.…

    • 1104 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    sa Moffat Professor Siqueira Global Health Connections October 10, 2017 Mountains Beyond Mountains Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Farmer, A Man Who Could Cure the World , written by Tracy Kidder, illustrates lessons needed in today’s society across the bibliography contexts of Dr. Paul Edward Farmer. In Part One, “Dokte Paul” it’s established that Dr. Farmer is not only devoted to helping the Haitian people but, also well respected and intimate when it comes to his work and life. As Kidder was in Haiti reporting on the United States’ soldiers involvement in creating Haiti’s new demographic government, the book’s introduction centers around Paul Farmer, who is talking for the Haitian people and American Special Forces…

    • 1867 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    My favorite line in the book “The Things They Carried” was located in the final story “The Lives of the Dead”. “I’m young and happy. I’ll never die. I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy ’s life with a story.…

    • 465 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Kool-Aid Kronicles: Kool-Aid Man's Komeback All my life I had fought to be the top; I remember my first fight, against Moon man that’s when I finally figured out what I was gonna do for the rest of my life. I wanted to make it to the top. I had fought and fought until I finally reached the top. Once I finally made it to the top I decided to settle down and begin on another journey, exploring the world.…

    • 1401 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ulrick Short Story

    • 705 Words
    • 3 Pages

    On a cold breezy night in the middle of old man forest in the middle of Southern Alaska. It was a bone chilling night, where the fog was so thick you could almost choke on it. It was so creepy you could only hear the sound of the trees swaying in the wind, and the occasional crunch of twigs or leaves under Geyorge’s boots. Him and his men were creeping around the forest confident that Ulrick would come and they would fight to the death. Slowly him and his men went tree to tree not taking any chances of getting a bullet before the real fight started.…

    • 705 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The author uses imagery to describe how Mortenson is feeling and all the hardships he faced on his journey. This quote is significant because it describes what it was like to sleep on a mountain. The author lets the reader know how cold and uncomfortable it was. Mortonson made peace with himself and his failure to honor Christa. His body failed him, not his spirits.…

    • 871 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Mountains beyond mountains by Tracy Kidder follows a doctor who grew up in a poor household and then followed his dream of being a doctor. He earned his degrees at Harvard and Duke and began his journey helping people. This book follows Farmer’s life in great detail, including his work and accomplishments. The book is split into 5 parts, each containing one part of his his journey. One of the biggest ideas that resonated with me was that Dr. Paul Farmer would spend huge amounts of money of individuals, but wouldn't the money be better spent if you could use it for multiple patients?…

    • 478 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Things They Carried Thesis

    • 1062 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien In the book The Things They Carried boys were drafted to fight a war in new place,new atmosphere ,a different type of terrain and weather. This is new to everyone who is fighting this platoon were consisted mostly young men and few experienced men. Some of these boys are carrying things that reminds them of home or as something that keeps them fighting. Throughout the book it shows us how theses young men fighting in war changes them after how they evolve to “Adults”.…

    • 1062 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Essay On Mt. Horeb

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages

    As human beings we inherently fear change, especially those of us with social shortcomings, who prefer routine schedules to overwhelmingly new experiences and unpredictability. Such was the case for me. My family moved when I was just turning three years old to Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, a small town of about 8,000 people, located about thirty miles from Madison. Mount Horeb is a quaint suburb known for its Norwegian heritage. It is a fine place to raise a family, but as I got older, I realized that I no longer felt welcomed and sheltered by the small and tightly-knit community, but rather I felt trapped, paralyzed by the limitations of a suffocating town.…

    • 649 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    We left right after breakfast, a hearty serving of bacon and eggs. Elizabeth Wright had some extra eggs that she didn't want to bring along so she split it between the people in the wagon train. That only meant four eggs for us so we made more bacon to compensate. We followed the Platte River for one hundred seventy miles before we reached the California Crossing. My legs feel like they are falling off.…

    • 852 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The Mountain Man Analysis

    • 802 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The Mountain Man Overview Troy James Knapp slowly withdrew from life in the modern world, feeling the call of the woods drawing him in. Long weekends out in the wild grew in length as the ant like human behaviour of the cities became a bitter taste to avoid in the background of a life that had slowly turned sour. The purity of the wild became the bedrock and foundation of the next six years of Troy’s life as he committed himself to a full time life in the wild. Life in the wild is tough especially in the winter months as heavy snow blankets fall.…

    • 802 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Innuitian Mountains Essay

    • 119 Words
    • 1 Pages

    The Innuitian Mountains are lined up mountains in the Nunavut and Northwest Territories. The region was formed in the middle of the Mesozoic era, when the North american plate moved northward. Most Innuitian Mountains contain igneous and metamorphic rocks, but for the most part are composed of sedimentary rock. In some locations they measure over 2,500 meters in height, and 1290 km in length. The provinces in this region are Nunavut and Northwest Territories.…

    • 119 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    By analyzing the economic and social conditions depicted in Josefina López’s Real Women Have Curves and Reyna Grande’s Across a Hundred Mountains we can gain insight into how economic systems like neoliberalism have shaped and continue to shape the lives of Mexican and Chicana women. López writes about undocumented Chicana workers living in East LA in the mid to late nineteen eighties, a time when the United States was transitioning into the late capitalist system of neoliberalism. Grande, on the other hand, focuses on an impoverished rural family suffering under the economic conditions in Mexico at around the same time, and of the wave of immigration into the Unites States that followed the economic crisis of 1982. Overall, the two stories…

    • 1019 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays