Short Story

Alex Cundiff Short Story
This story starts about a year ago in the year 1979 when the polio was finally eliminated. There was a new disease that came into the United States it was called polo cancer. Now this was not just your normal cancer it slowly eats away your whole body literally. It starts at the brain and slowly eats your organs. There are only 10 people in the whole world that has it; you have to buy a very special medicine that is very expensive. I’m guessing you are wondering how I am drawn to this situation it’s because my dad had it his name was Bob. He was an average man, with black skin, dark hair, cut short, and he had one of the bushiest beards I have ever seen. But he was a hard worker his whole life until the polo cancer hit. What are the odds that he would get it out of the 5 that are in the U.S?
What started it all was he was passing out a lot; he couldn’t eat or even go to the bathroom. The first time we took him to the doctor they ran a bunch of tests on him. They never came up with a conclusion or what could be causing all of these problems. But it never stopped he could never do these things again. So we took him to a different doctor and they finally came with a conclusion that he had polo cancer. He only had 1 year to live, it was hard for us to accept it that he would be gone and out of our lives forever. But we accepted it eventually; it was hard though we watched him get worse and worse every day.
One day we were driving to the ball park so my dad could see his favorite baseball team one last time. Well on the way we saw a woman standing on the side of the road. Her car had broken down. My dad wanted to help her out so we did, he and I got out and we looked at her car to see what was wrong with it. Then all of a sudden we hear a screech of the tires she stole our car. I tried to run after her but of course there is no way I could of even got close to catching up with her. My dad all of a sudden fell to the ground. He started shaking he was having a seizure and a very bad one. I did not have a clue what to do, I tried to call 911 but I had no signal. All I could do was hold him down so he wouldn’t hurt his self as bad.
But there was nothing really that I could do, it was 5 days before the day my son was born. It was a sad day burying your father one day and the next your son is born. I named my son Bob after my father. It has been 19 years since my father has died, my son is average height, black skin, dark hair, cut short, and the bushiest beard I have ever seen.
A year ago I found out that I had polo cancer, but it has been 19 years since the first cases were found. They now have cures for this awful cancer, so looks like I am going to live for how much ever long God lets me. Today im going to go see my favorite football team play it might be my last one I get to see. As we were driving down the road there was a woman with a broken down car. I was driving and my son asked “Dad why didn’t you stop” and I said “Because it could of killed me”.

OMM

I believe that the book was a whole lot better than the movie. I think this because it has so much detail in the book. Then the actual movie does. Dont get me wrong the movie is great. But the book is 10 times better!1

Spring break

This spring break i am going to go to louisville and spend time with my mom and step dad and my dad and all them. I am going to go see my papaw's grave its the first time ive seen him since this summer. It is going to be very hard, it seems like just yesterday he was here. He's not going to be there anymore for my birthday, for christmas or anything its going to be hard for my and my family to get through this time. I miss him like crazy!! But i am also goin to go see a few other peoples graves who has died this past year heres there names MAX,DORENE,AARON,DEMAR,JEMAR, AND MY PAPAW. They all died last year so i guess you could say that the worst year of my life was my sophmore year. But i cant let that ruin my spring break i jsut want to go see them to respect them and say a few words.

how come gays can talk about it but we cant?

How come gays can speak out about how it is alright to be gay, but yet i cant say anything about saying being gay is bad? I believe it is equal somebody that is not gay gets judged or something for speaking there opinion. But it is completely fine for a gay to say something. That is not right at all i dont believe that being gay is that right life style, just because i dont agree with there lifestyle doesnt mean i hate them. But i will tell them that i dont agree with it if they were to ask me. But that does not mean that i will not be friends with that person. I have quite a few friends who are homosexual. I dont have nothing against them, i just dont agree with there lifestyle. But it is not my life it is theres. But i still feel that i have a right to speak out against it and not be fussed at by a teacher.

vomiting experience

the worst vomiting experienece i have ever had, would have to be when i had gotten my ADHD medicine highered. The raised it up to 90 from like 40, now i never know why they were stupid enough to do that. But i had a terrible headache all day long, then we went out to eat at Taco Bell. Well if you have ever had a terrible migraine for like two days then you know that eating is the last thing you want to do. I went into the bathroom of taco bell and threw up everywhere, then i passed out as i was walking out of the bathroom. Now the only way i remeber that is because that is what they told me. I dont remeber it though lol but i was only like 8 i guess. I woke up later on in my bed at my house. I told my mom i was hungry and i finished my Taco Bell lol what could i say i was a kid.

if i had everything i ever wanted

If i had everything i ever wanted I wouldnt be me. I would be some stuck up person that nobody likes. I would think i am better than anybody else. I wouldn't have a family that i actually loved. I would not have any fun in my life what so ever. So life wouldnt be life if i had everything i wanted.

The Future

In my future i plan on marrying my girlfriend i know its early for me to say that but is is true. I also plan on going and joining the national guard my seniolr year actually. I am going to go to OCTC for diesil technology. I can not wait to start this next part of my life. I have everything i could ever want right now. Life is perfect!!

Painful childhood memories

My worst childhood memory would have to be when i was four years old. My mom had just married my step dad(who i hate with a passion),but i was asleep one night all of a sudden i heard screaming. Not just any screaming it was my mom screaming from being scared and from pain. That S.O.B was on top of her beating her with his fist. That was probally one of the worse memories of my childhood. I was four years old i couldnt do anything about it, because trust me if i could i would of. Now this went on for years and years, but eventually i called the cops on him but it didnt really matter because i moved down here about a year later and moved in with my aunt and unclr. But now i live my life not worrying about those days anymore that was the past and i try everything i can not to remeber it. Dont get me wrong i love my mom but i dont like her. How can i have respect for someone who dont have respect for themselves. Needless to say we dont have a good relationship anymore because she pretty much chose him over me.

Dead Poet Society

I really enjoyed this movie it was one of the best movies i have ever seen. I liked it because it was different, it had a different type of outlook on literature. They shold not of blamed the death on Mr. Kettin. Mr. Perry was the one responsible because he would not let Neal do what he wanted to do in life. He loved acting and he should of just let him do what he wanted to do. I believe that you can't really ever blame a suicide on someone, because there is not just one reason why the person commited suicide there is many reasons. The dead poet society was just a club, they read poetry and created poetry. Mr. Kettin just told them about it he told Neal that he should call his father he never told him to kill him self. And Mr. Perry told Neal that it was ok if he would of stood by his decision then his son would not be dead. Mr. Kettin was just doing what he wanted to do with his class, he was teaching it. If my englsih teacher gave me an idea about acting, and my parents did not let me do it, they would not blame her for my death, because they know that if I really want to do something like acting and if i love it enough it is going to bother me alot if i dont get to do it. Especially if i would rather act then be a doctor. But all around this was a great film one of the best i have ever seen.

teach a teacher something

Mrs. McDaniel i am going to teach you how to you how to weld. Now the first thing you want to do is make sure you have safety glasses on, a welding helmet on with a number 10 shield, and leather gloves. You want to get a piece of metal about four inches long. After you have done this you want to turn your welder on put it on 90 degrees. Then you get a E6011 welding rod but it in your welding gun on one of the notches. Then what you want to do is strike until your welding gun starts to just sprak. Then you want to get as close to the ppiece of metal without being on it. Then you will hold it there for like 2 seconds and you will start to see and red bubble now you want to keep that bubble their or you are not going to have a straight weld. Then you want to go back and forth slowly and make a line. You have to do this slowly. Now take off your helmet look at your weld get a pair of pliers and put it under water to cool it off. You have now welded!!

is this part of bein a teen

im so sick of gettin yelled at yea i admit it alot of the time i dont listen. But sometimes i dont even hear them and i still get yelled at. like just now i sent an email to my aunt saying that we do have to take the real act march 9 and that its free but they keep saying that it is the practice act which it is not. but apparently i got an attitude im sorry but its really hard to tell if someone is getting an attitude over an email. But she gets an attitude with me all the time but its ok for her to do it right. because im a piece of crap just like my dad and im such a bad kid and i deserve sometimes i wish i was dead. that way i wouldnt get on peoples nerves anymore. I mean i feel so useless all the time what good thing am i going to do in life nothing. Because i dont even know what i wanna do after i get out of highschool. I just wish that all this would go away and i can be a better person. But no matter how hard i try i cant change. Yes i do try but other people would say i dont but i do. Im jus so sick of being a nobody in life. yes i understand that they are on me constantly because they dont want me to be like my dad but dag on give me a freakin break. Im just a kid im not 20 im a junior in highschool. quit bein on my butt 24/7 365 just because i screw up alot.

My Favorite Place

My favorite place to be. Would have to be anywhere my girlfriend is. Because everytime i am with her all my troubles go away. It is like fireworks go off on the inside of me. Life is not life without her in it, i can go to that place anytime i want to thats what makes it my favorite place. I dont worry about bad feelings when im with her. I think of only good things. I like how its peaceful and how no feeling can match up to it when she is in my arms. I know people probably say this stuff all the time but i wouldnt say it unless i meant it. Its true i love her with all my heart i never thought i could ever feel this way but these 4 months have changed me for the good and they have also been the best four months of my life!!