My Favorite Website for Myths/Legends/Folktales

American Stories

Prompt:

Use any of these legend/myths/folktale stories and modernize it to the 21st century (change the setting, characters, etc. but make sure to keep the theme and/or symbol).

Different Ways to Look at Things

Eleven Ways to Look at a Water Bottle

I

In the left corner of a student's desk,

The only thing that distracts me from inches away,

Is a blue water bottle filled half way.

II

When I go around it,

to make my paper get in contact with the teacher,

It stays still.

Sweating as if it worked out seconds ago.

III

It doesn’t look left or right.

It is not allowed to be touched by anyone.

Only moves when it is in the hands of it’s Master.

IV

It is allowed in school.

Not in all classrooms.

Not at all times.

V

It is always there when you need it.

Even when it feels looked down upon its preferred neighbors.

Soda, Juice, Milk, Smoothie

VI

It’s not the water bottle.

It’s what inside of it that matters.

I don’t care how it looks in the outside.

You lifesaver is what is in the inside.

VII

Water is healthy for the body.

Water allows your dry tongue to become moist in seconds.

Water makes you lose weight.

Water makes your mood better.

IX

In a dry desert,

It’s the only thing that you will need.

In a lifetime,

It’s the only things that you will need.

X

The container is important.

Important to carry what really is important.

XI

Different needs in a human life that need water,

But what is water without something to carry it to its destination?

Water would fall on the ground like rain,

It evaporates up or gets contaminated and-

Nightmares and Dreamscapes by Stephen King Review

This was a very interesting novel. I did not finish it all because I was asked to read five stories and write my own using Stephen King's work as an inspiration. Even though I was asked to read it and at the beginning I thought that the book would be good, I did not like his stories. They were very weird and used lots of creepy, malicious and words that can not be described. I hate this genre. Especially when it includes so much fantasy in it. I did not like the book, but that's my opinion. Maybe you read and it might enjoy it, but it was not my favorite and will never be. Sorry Mr. King. It's not you, it's that I don't like those creepy things you write about, but I did like Misery on the bright side.

The stories I read:


Suffer the Little Children
This was the first story that I read and at the beginning it caught my attention because it was interesting and sounded realistic, but then when one of the students of the teacher started transforming, it was becoming very creepy. The teacher in this story is named Miss Sidley and she is an elder age. She scares her students because she is one of the tough ones. She asked one of her students, Robert, to answer the following question. Her students normally are ashamed and/or humiliated by her because she is the scary type of teacher. Robert on the other hand, acted normal and did not seem afraid. This made her angry because he smiled at her constantly, and that was something that none of the kid's did. Robert turns into an alien/weird creature and Miss Sidley finds out that all of her students can do that, so she calls them into a separate room. That day she brings her brother's gun and shoots them.

Popsy
When I read the title of this story, I checked the definition for 'popsy'. Popsy means an attractive young woman. I thought that it would be about people falling in love, but it is not. There is a little boy who says that he is lost in the mall and he cries/looks like he wants to cry because he lost his 'Popsy'. The narrator wants the kid because he would turn him in as a pay for his debt, since the narrator is obsess with playing dice games. He tries to take the kid to were he needs to without allowing anyone to notice him stealing this child. The child describes his 'Popsy' and tells the narrator that his 'Popsy' left to get him some water. 'Popsy' is a vampire and the kid is too, and at last 'Popsy' finds the kid.

The Fifth Quarter
The setting is at a house in Castle Town. The house was filled with awful events that happened in the life of two men who were molested by the house owner's wife.

Home Delivery
The main character is Maddie Pace, a timid and indecisive young woman who lives on a small island named Jenny. Maddie is pregnant and her husband left her as a widow because he died in a boat accident. She sees large amounts of bodies dead. The people living in Jenny and her see this mass killing with their own eyes. They want to attack against the zombies that will rise from the cemetery. Maddie's husband comes back to life as a zombie from the sea and Maddie defeats him.

Rainy Season
A husband and wife rent a house in a small town called Willow on summer being warned to leave by the local citizens. Every seven years a husband and wife will go there from outside and will stay in Willow, not mattering anything, to become sacrifices during the rainy season. When the "rain" starts, the couple learns the nature of the precipitation: an army of grotesque black toads the size of footballs, armed with needle-sharp teeth and able to chew through doors and walls.