Stories tagged “packing”

  • Start of the Summer Road Trip

    I stumble out of my house and to my car’s truck, which is popped open. I throw my bags in the back and slam the top down to close it. My mom comes out of the house and gives me a big hug. “Drive carfully okay?” She tells me. “I ...

  • Moving out

    Boxes everywhere. She gazed around the painfully familiar room, one last time. Ostensibly checking that everything was truly packed, but equally saying a quiet goodbye to this simple space that she had called home for the past three years. Had it reall...

    • Author: dkscully
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 5 out of 5

  • Checklist

    Time to see if I have everything I’ll for my trip this weekend, she thought. Toothbrush. Check Comb. Check Couple changes of clothes. Check Silk nightie. Check Map. Check GPS. Check Flashlight. Check Rope. Check Night vision goggles. Check Knife....

    • Author: Wilson A.
    • Posted almost 3 years ago.
    • 4 out of 5

  • Last night at home

    I open the door to my family home’s basement and I see all my stuff either in bags or neatly packed in boxes. Hard to believe that everything you own in the world can be put in a corner somewhere in a basement. “It doesn’t look like a...

  • Sentimentality

    One after another, I stuffed my belongings into my suitcase, working efficiently. I had never been the sentimental type; even as a child, I had tried not to assign feelings to inanimate objects. Things got lost, burned in fires, shrank in the laundry. ...

  • The Midnight Howling

    I was happy that school was over for the year, and summer was beginning, but I was sad that my family and I were moving away. My father was offered a job up in Maine to continue his research on plant life. It meant I would be spending my summer stuck u...

  • The Midnight Howling Chapter 1 - Part 2

    I walked over to my mother in the kitchen, I guess I startled her a bit, because she jumped a little and knocked over a mug onto the floor. “Oh Kat, could you get me the broom.” She sighed as she rubbed her eyes. “Sure mom, did I scare you? You j...

  • The Needs Of A Knight

    “Right, I know you’re all so fresh that you’re still sore about the shoulders from being dubbed, but it’s important you know the practical side of knighthood. So, packing. Don’t look at me like that. You think you’re...