Fairy

Robert came to the forest for woods. While carrying the woods, he tripped himself and lost consciousness. He didn’t know how long it had been when he could feel the green light penetrated the leaves again. He was still closing his eyes, but put his hand to feel the pain on his head. Suddenly, he noticed something blocked the light and opened his eye to see if there was an animal next to him. It was a beast that he couldn't tell what it is. He could see the its teeth with hunger. Robert stood up immediately and walked backward slowly while he was still looking at the beast. While he was focusing on the eyes of the beast, he crash to something. It was a woman, who dressed differently from him, smiling at him. The woman sl0wly walked in front of Robert, faced the beast, saying something that Robert didn't understand. After listening to the woman, the beast turned around and disappeared from Robert's sight. He thanked her and invited her to go to his house to have dinner with his family. She only nodded and he figured she could not speak. The second day, everybody in the town heard that the woman has a special power. They thought she was a fairy and everybody asked her doing a favor. Robert's house became so crowdy everyday. People brought food to thank her, and Robert was pleased that he did not have to worry about the shortage of food anymore.
However, one day, Robert saw his neighbor left hishouse with food. Her eyes were filled with anger and disappointment. Then he knew, the fairy had lost her power. People stopped coming to his house and there was a rumor that the fairy actually was only a human living in the forest. Robert's family gradually went out of food and he could not keep this woman in his house anymore. He told her to leave the house. Still quietly, she left his house and walked back to the forest. Robert still went to the forest everyday, as nothing had happened.

Home

Before you open your eyes, you are deciding what you should do for the day. You can feel the sunshine through the window and you know you have passed the time you usually get up. You don't feel well since last night, so staying home seems to be your better choice than taking two tests in school. You open your eyes and stare at the ceiling for minutes. The house is quiet. Your parents have left for work. When you go home, you just stay in your room almost the rest of the day. No wonder you mom sometimes complains she only sees you during dinner. You stretch and clear everything in your mind.

You leave your room, and the corner of your right eye notices that your parents's room is open while you are walking to the kitchen. It's usually closed, so you go back and grab the handle. Suddenly, you realized that the room has changed. You may ask yourself when is your last time go into the room, "weeks ago?"you can't answer it. You go into the room, look around, and sit on a chair.

You hold one of the pictures next to you. "It's a new picture," you tell yourself. You stare at the picuture, your dad, your mom, and you are smiling in that picture. But where did you take it? You are trying to think back, but nothing is coming up. You know when you took this picture this time, the answer is a long time ago. You finally smile, with bitterness.

You stand up, you have made another decision. Since your parents always make fun of your cooking skills, you are going to prove they are wrong. And you and your parents can sit together and talk more about the food , and of course, not only during the dinner.

Map Poem

He hears a strange sound
He follows it and stops
In front of him is a quiet tombstone
He takes a deep breath and touches the cold stone
Suddenly, he let go the stone and starts crying
The stone is quiet, as nothing has happened

He hears a girl's voice saying "He killed me!"
He is shock and scared
He wants the others understanding what is happening
But nobody can
He feels he is a paper sack filled with sadness and fear
He feels bad for the death of the girl
He feels sad for his loneliness of his life

Dead Connection

The characters of this story finally started to come together. The lawman, Gates, was looking for a high school girl, Nikki Parker, who was disappeared after she left school one day. He looked for someone who might have seen what happened to her on that day, and he found Robert. However, Gates realized that Robert had Schizophrenia and Methamphetamine, and Robert kept forgetting things might be as a result of the medicine he was taking. Gates tried to contact him and help him remember. Accidentally, Robert finally remember that the girl was staying in a car with a man and the man had hit her really hard. On the other side, Murray became a friend with Pearl. Because of his special ability, Murray heard a strange voice and found out that Nikki got killed and was buried in another man's tomb. The story is getting more interesting and I really want to know what would happen next. I think Murray was going to help Gates found out the murder of the girl. On the other hand, I wonder what the author is going to tell us about Billup, a character that seems meaningless in the story so far.