... always feels alone. She loses her mother at childbirth and raised by her neighbor Clarentine Flett. Her father Culer Goodwill is unable to care for her right now. This is the beginning of her voids, gaps and holes. The first void in Daisy Goodwill life is at her birth. She is born, and her mother Mercy dies. Her father is in a deep ... wife. In the pyramid Culer Goodwill attempted to build he buried his wife wedding band. Lying in bed at night, Daisy waits for Baker to return from his monthly trips. The only thing, Daisy thinks of is the voids and holes in her life. Tonight, lying under...

• Word Count: 1810
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

... the weather got too bad mom or dad would get me to a safe place. I can still recall when dad and I replaced the bedroom floor, because termites had eaten holes in the wood and made it weak. Dad said, "Son if I am going to work on your floor, you are going to help me. You are twelve now ... that floor. I will never forget how my heart swelled when my cousin came in and wanted me to play. Dad said, "Get Boy, men are working here, no time for playing." I never felt so close to my dad, since it was almost like I became a man that very day. From that day on I always wanted to make my ... a t...

• Word Count: 1589
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... the novel there are two teenage guys named Dennis Monroe and Jason Rourke. They are at a birthday party and get bored so they decide to leave and go for a drive in the city (Washington D.C.). While driving through a run down neighborhood they see a man holding a gun, the man tells them to pull over and ... school Dennis thought he saw the green SUV that he saw the night before. During the day at school Dennis and Jason buy a kit to fix the holes in the carpet of a car from the bullet. On the walk back to Dennis" house where the car is, they find a police officer there that ... out of hi...

• Word Count: 1355
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

... a pair of laced up shoes that was her mother's. She had no money to buy shoes so in the wintertime she would basically walk in the snow with holes in her shoes. Mariah had many jobs but they didn't last long. She held jobs as a coat-check girl, a hair sweeper in a beauty salon ( ... signed to a major label. But in reality she still had to pay rent and she was running ragged with a full schedule of demo sessions and backup gigs for Brenda K. Starr. Mariah was overworked and wanted nothing else then at least eight hours of sleep. On a Friday night in November 1988, Brenda had pestered Mar...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School