Short Stories of 10F IB by Ayşegülnur Kabaca

SHORT STORIES OF 10F-IB Date: 6.11.2014

3- The Island Show- Ayşegülnur Kabaca 6- Torture at Prison- Gülce Sündüz Şengönül 9- The Monkey Head- Şeyma Uslu 11- Deniz Elif Gülderer 14- Fun Fact 15- Bedri’s Shadow- İsmail Durak 17- Cursed- Cemre Avanaş 19- Bankruptcy- Bahadır Yıldırım 20- The Shop- Ahmet Sefa Genç 23- A Mysterious Memory- Mehmet Furkan Özen 26- Mafia Wars- Kübra Yıldız 29- Speaking Picture- Seda Çeçen 31- Tiffany the Tomboy- Aysu Öz 34- Signposts- Aysena Nur Çınar 40- Friendship- Hande Sekmen 42- A Frightening Night- Berk Furkan Uçar 44- Şimal Çiçek 2

THE ISLAND SHOW Ayşegülnur Kabaca

“Be careful what you watch you may receive it” Mr. Darcy was headed to China when their ship was destroyed. Now, he is shipwrecked with five other passengers; Oliver, Samantha, Susan, Jean and Ali. “The island is quite enormous and enchanting.” Mr. Darcy muttered slowly as he walked back to the shore. Susan was there cooking a crab that Oliver had catched earlier that day. They ate the crab in absolute silence then Darcy and Ali got into the forest to find other supplies for shelter and food. Inside the forest they found a little golden totem with eyes made of rubies. “Oh if the cannibals who left this totem here won‟t eat us then we can be rich after we survive” exclaimed Ali. Then they returned to the shore. But something was strange Samantha wasn‟t near the bonfire anymore. All of the survivors tried to find her but they couldn‟t. “Maybe a wild boar ate her.” mumbled Jean. Jean was a mean guy who had no sense of humanity. “But we could find her clothes if she was eaten!” he screamed and laughed loudly. Then he returned to the shore to get some sleep. The others looked for Samantha and they found her near the river. She was poisoned because of a berry she ate in the forest. They took him back to the camp and made medicine for her. “She will be all right after sleeping.” mumbled Oliver.

Jean was a mean spirited guy who made fun of every situation. Everyone except him was working on their survival. Together they made a shelter and started building a raft. Women were cooking and men were finding resources. But Jean was taking advantage of their hard work and made fun of them because he thought that they could never leave the island. The next day Darcy got up early and tried to catch a fish. Then he heard a falling sound and walked into the forest. He walked for a long time but then he saw some little buildings like bungalows and started to spy on the village. There were some men and women dressed in modern clothes with cameras around them. Darcy was furious about the situation but then someone noticed him and shouted “there is a guy hiding in the bushes!”. Darcy tried to run away but a huge man catched him from his neck. He said “come with me.” in an aggresive voice. The guard who catched Darcy took him to a crazy decorated room with a big chair on the middle. There was a little guy sitting on the chair. He turned and shouted “Welcome to da show biz, Mista Darcey!” Mr Darcy was a bit freaked out because he thought that they were alone on the island and they were going to die but he learns that some maniac planned this for a reality show. He shouted wildly at first but then the little guy named Ajunn told him that they could negotiate. He was named after the Turkish Reality Show Guy named Acun who took advantage of other people for money. He didn‟t look really upset about his name because he chose a carrier after him. Mr Darcy negotiated with Ajunn and came back to the village like nothing ever happened. People were scared because they couldn‟t find him but Jean was really happy and asked Darcy if he has been somewhere relaxing under the sun. Then Darcy got an idea.

The next morning Darcy got up early and went to the studio to find Ajunn. He told him about Jean and he told Ajunn that Jean needed a cruel punishment. Ajunn agreed and they made a plan. Darcy returned to the shore but Jean was sleeping. Then he found a rope and tied him to the raft and let him out to the sea with some robotic sharks. Jean didn‟t know that they were robot sharks so he would be really scared and then after he learned his lesson Darcy would get him back to the island. So he carried on with his plan and tied him to the raft and let him get away on the sea. Then sharks arrived Jean wake up and he shouted “Help!” but no one came to help him. Then the sharks ate him. They weren‟t robotic sharks actually and there was no one named Oliver, Ali, Samantha, Susan or Ajunn on the island. There was only his friend Jean with him. Darcy was a guy who had psychological problems because reality shows in Turkey were so bad and he watched them all day.

TORTURE AT THE PRISON Gülce Sündüz Şengönül

The cell was dark and low.A small light beam was escaping between the cell doors.There was a stinking smell.The smell came from the other dead prisoners.I felt so tired as if someone walked on me for an entire day.My collar was damaged and my arms were devastated.My shirt head dust and mud all over it because of the last torture .The gardian usually torture me everday.Sometimes he use to torture other prisoners too.The gardian was nearly 1.80 cm and he weighted about 100 kg.He had a stubbly beard and he had a mousthache.He had a oily face.He had messy hair.His hair was also oily and head dandruff.I was wearing a dark blue and bright green training suit.The suit was damaged because of his tortures.I felt like my arms were going to fall apart My face was beaten up and abused because of the gardian‟s tortures.I have been living in this cell since the summer of 2013.Before I came here I was a fashion model.I use to have my pictures in my magazines.I had a family.A beautiful elegant classy tall wife and small energytic soft children.I was kidnapped from my house.From that day this ugly gardian tortured me continously.When I came to this prison I was very handsome and I had a shining face.But after all these months I became old and devastated.

The doors of my cell started to open creakily.The light coming from the outside and the light blinded my eyes.I saw the gardian‟s silhoutte.I started praying because I didn‟t want him to choose m efor torturing today.I saw his hands getting into the cell and I felt his hands behind my neck.He lifted me from the back of my shirt.And threw me out of the cell.I saw the other prisoners looking at me with pitty.Today he had chosen me.Outside of the cell there was a big television and there was a tenis match on the TV.But there was no sound because he was listening rock music from the radio.That music was loud and I couldn‟t stand this music.In the middle of salon there was table.On the table there were a lot of disgusting and stinky foods from night.The gardian‟s house was nastly like himself. He had wore a black t-shirt and sweetpants.He was depressing me.And then he took me and put on the front of window because of smell.Though,he had wore smelled socks of yesterday.Outside of the prison was very hot.The air was muggy.I couldn‟t stand that all things. Suddenly the gardian came to me fast.I was scared because he took me abruptly that time I didn‟t wait.He hold me from my throat.I felt a pain such as choking.His behaviour was always like that .He was behaving harsh and rude.He threw me out of the door.That marble was very cold.And he took keys of house and he pulled the door.I heard irritating and loudly sound from the door.Time to torture.Torturing was begining I was feeling weight on my head.I was feeling dizzy while I was coming down from the stairs.Yesterday It was rain.But today the weather was very hot.Because of yesterday‟s rain,there were puddles on the flor.At every turn I was being like choking.I couldn‟t open my eyes because of leaped water.On the road I felt sticky thing.All the time I was sticking on the floor.It was disgusting.A few minutes later the guardian rubbed me to pavement.I felt very bad pain. 7

Then the gardian went on such as nothing happened.We went to a place that very crowded. Everywhere there were tall,thin poles.Sudden I felt a pain.Because I felt a pain because I felt another head on my head.My face was puckered.Approximately I have been there for 4 hours and anymore I was bored.I just moved to right,to left,up and down.That was very boring.And then I saw the crowd again.I came back to same road.I got it,we were returning to prison.I guess I was coming again to end of tortures. The end of all tortures,I came back to prison.I guess I had a stiff neck.Because I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x;t move it. When the gardian entered the prison I breathed.But although that relax I was feeling ache and pain. My face was wet.There was a mug on mey head.Again he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x;t clean up my head.He took me from the floor and lifted met o my prison.Then doors of prison were closed.Again the prison was dark and low. I was tired,I had a sleep.It was hard to be shoe.See you on other tortures.

THE MONKEY HEAD Şeyma Uslu Once upon a time, therewas a traveler couple named Mr. Beckett and Mrs. Beckett. They were quite wealthy and want to digress and forget their pain because they couldnt have a baby by an awful illness. They traveled all around the World such as Russia, India, Norway, Nigeria etc. Their aim in each country is tasting the most famous meal of that town. Mrs. Beckett was very thrilled, active and energetic person as the contrary of her husband Mr. Beckett. He was faded, pensive, calm, silent but quite smart. However,behind every kind of face and appearance, they are suffering terrible for a baby. After all struggle with the illness for years, they accepted their destiny and tried to find ways to get rid off theirpain. Because of this reason they were looking for extreme and strange experiences. One day they heard that there is a restaurant in one of South Africa‟s small district which offers living monkey brain to its customers. When Mrs. Beckett gotaware of this, “Oh my God! Look, we have to try this, lets go to South Africa immediately!” she exclaimed. Even tough she didnt let Mr. Beckett tomake a little comment about the trip and booked flight tickets. When the travel day came, during the flight, Mrs. Beckett talked about the languages that are spoken in South Africa with the dictionaries she bought, also telling stories about the slaves that are made brought and worked by rich Europeans by force with laughing loudly and make plannings crazily and excitedly such as jumpout and try to play with child lion during the safari.

Her husband was listening him toughtfully but its realised clearly from his face that he is feeling excited about this extraordinary experience as well. After a nosy flight by Mrs. Beckett‟s unnecessary tittle-tattles, they come out the plane and arrived the restaurant soon. When they entered the restaurant, 4 big circle stables appeared with a small hollow place at the middle of it. One of famous chinese poet‟s poems were hanged the Wall on long papers. However at the other side of Wall was covered by hat with different shapes, colours, designs. They were so many that Mrs. Beckett couldnt stop her curiousy and questioned unpatiently “why did you hang all these hats to your restaurants walls?” to the owner of the restaurant with colory clothes and black long hat. He threatened as if he didnt hear the question and come along with them in order to Show a suitible and empty table. He said : “your meal will be ready soon, monkey and our talented hunter is about to come from the jungle, I will bring you beverage untill they come” and left unconcernly. Mrs. Beckett was shocked about the restaurant‟s view and the owner‟s behaviours. But she quickly forget about these and went totake a look to hats curiously. She realised that all hats were really thickand big. She tought that the person who is owner of them must want to hide himself or herself from something or somebody. During these deep toughts, a hunter and monkey appeared the door. Mrs. Beckett screamed and ran to their table. Now she only focused on a taste of a living monkey‟s brain. The monkey moved and behaved so fast that a hunter and owner of the restaurant could put into the monkey place very hardly. They were strong and talented but the monkey tried to resist to them with shouting very loudly. Mrs. Beckett was so happy that she was laughing loudly too. After put the monkey‟s head into to hollow place, the owner cut the head quickly. During this work, the monkey was still alive and shouting sufferingly. Mr. Beckett and Mrs. Beckett started to eat its brain with blood by fork and spoon normally. After first piece of living monkey‟s brain, Mr. Beckett made his first sentence: “ it is quite delicious.”

Deniz Elif G端lderer

I am trying to open my eyes. My eyelids are heavier than my will to wake up. I give up. I am hearing a thin tickling sound. It's interrupted with a loud wild roar, not a natural wild roar though, a strange mechanic, metalic one. It makes me open my eyes with shock and fear. That damn loud roar! Happens every 15 minutes! TWICE! The bed is crathing with a disturbing sound as I am trying to get myself out of it's tiring warm arms made of metal and cotton. My eyes are still blurred of the unfamiliar bright light, not that I don't see it every night but that it is unfamiliar to my nature. My head is spinning with a sharp sour smell. The smell of sickness and lost faith. It makes me want to throw up. There are no windows but it doesn't matter that much. Even if there were any windows still there wouldn't be anything to see. I became blind. Sometimes I wish that I was only blind, but I was caught up in this sickness that made me blind, deaf and deligent. It's an illness, a desease created by mankind. An illness that makes a man see only grey, a big dark cloud. An illness that makes a man hear only screams and roars. An illness that is so unescapeable thateven if you cry or shout, there is never a way out.The 'grey' surrounds you like a hungry beast to devour you as a whole, the sounds scrath the walls of your head to drive you crazy and your tongue gets tied to your throught to silence you as if the catastrophe is not on action.

Once you get caught in this sickness you are quarantined. You are made to live with others like your. Millions like you. You start to live in a deep grey coffin. A coffin so cold that freezes your heart and bones. A coffin so loud no words of warmth are spoken. A coffin so crowded and as so lonely. Again, today I woke up in my coffin just about 18 seconds ago. It is as dark as before even though there is light here the darkness that the disease placed in me reflects to the coffin. The sickness is spreading all throught the globe and I know I am not alone in this big grey map of hell. There surely are others like me. Others that I can not reach, I cannot talk nor touch and feel. The coffin creates a dark mist around each individual that bans us from interacting. The mist around us consists of our sorrow, worry, pain and misfortune. People are tortured, made to walk with sticks screwed under their shoes, pieces of fabric are forcefully knotted around their necks. They are made to wear disguises of paint all over their faces and hair to hide who they were before they caught the disease. It -the sickness- has brought many rules with itself. Rules of intelligence, beauty, society, ideology... Rules that if the ill didn't obey, their sickness would get worse. Being crushed under their loneliness, they would be forced to drift away from the coffin. The disease seperated the outlaws from its community of sickened brains, left them alone so they would soon come back to the system of the great illness and obey. The rules that the disease brought were secrets. Whispers that were told into the folks' ears during the night time, the emptiness of a students head, a picture of a beautiful woman, the hunger in an artists eyes,the prettiness of a silver watch, the carelessness of a working mother and the foolishness of her child. The disease of urbanism, industrialization and capitalism. 12

WHAT IT REALLY IS WHAT EVERYONE THINKS ABOUT BEING AN IB STUDENT

BEDRI’S SHADOW Bedri had just took his pen off the paper. It was time for lunch. For lunch Bedri had a meat pie. After Ben had finished his meat pie he played soccer with his friends Fatih and Berkecan. Suddenly the bell rang, so the boys rushed back to class. In front of the classroom they saw their teacher,(Mr Osman). By the time the bell had finished everyone was in two straight lines. During class they had math. Today they were doing multiplication. Bedri was in highest group. For the lesson Bedri‟s group were working on the laptops. then it was time free time Bedri drew all teams of the Fifa World Cup. After a couple of hours it was time to go home. Today Bedri was walking home. After he got home he rang the doorbell…Nobody answered. He called his mother…She didn‟t answer. So Bedri waited, and waited, and waited, until it finally started to get dark. Bedri started seeing very peculiar things like (moving shadows, the shape of water beside him and nature coming to life). Bedri suddenly remembered that one of his friends had previously warned him about this. He said it was called THE WITCHING HOUR. Bedri noticed a gigantic shadow moving. But it was moving in a slow motion. Bedri sprinted as fast as he could downtown towards his school as he noticed the giant chasing him. As soon as he got there he discovered that it had been burnt down because of a boy named Aykut Yılmaz. Aykut was trying to show his friends a magic trick when his lighter went out of control and burnt the school. Bedri ran to safety behind a rock, but realised it was the shell of a turtle. So Bedri ran as fast as he could towards a restaurant called Yasir‟s. There, he met Fatih and Berkecan for a meeting about what to do. Suddenly Bedri had a great idea. 15

“Why don‟t we go to your dad‟s secret weapon base and use the tasers there to electrocute the giant”. Bedri said to Berkecan. “That‟s a great idea”, Berkecan said. So one by one they crept out of the demolished restaurant and walked towards Berkecan‟s house. Once they reached Berkecan‟s house, Berkecan entered the secret house code which was „AO53‟. A door then appeared in the ground. So Bedri, Berkecan and Fatih walked down the stairs. When they reached the bottom, they saw approximately fifty weapons hanging on the wall. Berkecan grabbed three tasers and gave one to Bedri and one to Fatih and kept one for himself. They then ran up the stairs and headed towards the giant. Once they reached the giant, all three of them tasered the left leg of the giant. All at once the giant fell onto the ground. “YOU‟VE saved the town of Yenibosna”, the mayor screamed.

CURSED Cemre Avanaş It was six a.m. when the alarm clock woke me up.It was rainy and dark as night and it gave me happiness as I know that I could just go out and do whatever I want, go wherever I desire.The rain always gave me that felling.I never liked the caustic feeling of the sun. I slowly gotout of the bed.I had a great eager to go out so as fast as I can,I got ready. I groveled through the door. Then for a moment,I felt just so small. Although the weather was rainy,although there was no one on the streets that could make me feel unimportant,I felt sore dundant. As therain got faster,I got faster.The rain drops started gruffly down my head and body.The heaviness of the drops gave me a great pain.I got worried,I wanted to escape,I wanted to run but I just couldn‟t! I started falling. Suddenly every side of me was in mud.I was in a pit.I didn‟t know what to do,hot to get out of this hollow. Rain was filling the hole,I had to hurry but again I just couldn‟t.There were so many like me in there.They were crawling with no hope.They weren‟ talking,they weren‟t reacting but just crawling in slob all assumed in brown mucus. It was the first time that the rain betrayaled me. There was no opportunity for me to just stand there.I had to do something,I had to get out of this hole! 17

I started climbing through the rough walls. I ignored the heavy rain drops,I ignored the ones down there, I ignored the rough ground.I climbed and climbed. I was about to reach the top and I had to go on but for a moment I felt just so hopeless. The atmosphere inside,the careless ones there and the thought of the betrayal of the rain almost made me give up. But then something happened. One just lookes like me came out of mud. It was like all my troubles were gone, like the rain ran lower just like the way I like. She came near me,looked at my eyes and told me we could manage to escape together. The happiness in her face gave me the hope I needed, gave me the courage I was looking for. She held me and again, I was climbing, this time with her near me.And thenâ&#x20AC;Ś We did it. We managed it. We were outside again. I felt the rain. I felt the freash air in every cell of mine. Just before the great pain I felt. I started to shout, the thing on me started to shout, she started to shout. I was under a black, bright green shoe. She held me, cursed being a snail. Rest of it is all darkness.

BANKRUPTCY Bahadır Yıldırım In a little town of a big country , there was a carpenter. He was living with his family . Everyday he went to work early but came back to home late. His business wasn’t really big , he had a little workshop. He had gotten the workshop from his father. Because the workshop could bequest his brothers and sisters. In a normal day , he got ready to go to work and he got out of his home. He arrived at the workshop and worked until lunch time . After the lunch , when he came back to the workshop , he saw his best friend. They talked for 15 minutes. After the talk , carpenter’s friend offered the partnership for a big company. Carpenter thought about this offer after his friend’s left. And the next day he accepted to be a partner of the big company. 8 partners worked together . And the company improved. But the other 7 partners including the carpenter’s friend agreed with each other and escaped with the company’s money. There was just the carpenter left. The company bankrupted. After partners escaped , all the company’s debt was left to the carpenter . Carpenter came back to the little workshop. He started working at 06.00 and coming back at 00.00 . His daughter and son couldn’t see him during these years because they were sleeping at 21.40 and they woke up at 08.00 . Carpenter worked hard everyday . He finished the company’s debt in five years . And he improved his workshop . The workshop became a company. Now, he tries to hang out with his family. He is working alone, without a partner.

THE SHOP Ahmet Sefa Genç It‟s a shop I must have walked past a million times before, but have barely noticed until now, and have never thought to enter. A nondescript, little, brown brick building, crammed between a hair salon and a gun store, with a tiny window display offering an assortment of forgettable items that are of no interest to me. But I have some extra time on my hands today and decide to take a quick peek. The interior is cool and dark, and it takes a moment for my eyes to adjust. An overpowering rose scent hangs thickly in the air; nearly enough to turn me away. Instead I continue further into the store, eyes scanning the shelves for anything interesting. Indeed, there are a great variety of items – and yet none whatsoever appeal to me. “Can I help you?” I look up to see an elderly woman behind a counter. She looks vaguely startled, and I wonder when she last saw a customer enter her shop. “Just browsing,” I reply. I make a full circle of the place and confirm that there is indeed nothing here that I wish to purchase. I wonder how the old woman manages to stay in business. I head towards the door, but pause when I notice one interesting item. A large old book, perched on a wooden stand. 20

There is no visible title on the well-worn leather cover, and it is held shut with a thick metal clasp. Upon further inspection I see that a combination lock is affixed to the clasp. The numbers read: 02-11-32. I try the latch with the current combination, but it does not open. I am now even more curious to discover what lies between the book‟s pages. “What is this book about?” I ask the old woman, who has been staring at me quietly the whole time. “Do you know the combination?” “I do,” the woman replies, but adds nothing more. I am annoyed by her response, and decide that I‟ve had enough of this place. I turn to leave and am almost out the door, when I hear the woman say, “Try your birthday.” I give her an odd look as I wander back over to the book. She‟s crazy, I think. And yet, I am compelled. With my index finger I swipe the numbers into place so that they now show my birth month, day, and year. To my astonishment, the latch clicks open. I pull back the heavy cover and flip through the pages. “This can‟t be right,” I murmur in shock as I realize the book is a biography… about me! I look up to question the woman, but she is gone and the shop suddenly seems different, brighter. The shelves are now stocked with all my favorite things. I wander through the aisles again – how did I miss this before? And this? I would buy any of these items, gladly! Gone is the disgusting smell of rose, replaced with my own favorite smell. 21

I sit behind the counter and wait for a customer to come in and buy something, but they all walk past the window as though the place were invisible. The few that do enter seem uninterested in what I have to sell, or complain that the smell in the air is too strong. Until one day, a young woman takes an interest in the book. “It won‟t open,” she notes, smacking on her gum. “Try your birthday,” I say.

A MYSTERIOUS MEMORY Mehmet Furkan Ă&#x2013;zen Though it is one of the faded memories of my life today, there are times when I remember his face clearly, especially his eyes. As he had yellow spots on his eyes we called him spotty. He would have been a stray dog, until, he came to me. I was seven years old. My dad had just got transferred to Nasik. We had shifted into a rented house. The house was surrounded by lots of bushes and vines. It was raining very heavily on the day we shifted. I went out and felt those refreshing raindrops with a cool breeze on my face. It was a cold dark night. We had our meal and went to sleep. Somehow in the midnight I heard a loud thud outside the main door. I mustered courage and peeped out through the window adjoining the door and I was really amused with what I saw outside. There was a small puppy lying on an old rug which my mother had put outside the door. It was wet and shivering. At first it was difficult to see the little one. It had a black body which was darker even than a black rainy cloud. It was the yellow spots on its eyes, which made me realize its presence. It was trying to get inside the curved rug to avoid the chilling air outside and it had managed to get in as I could see only his head outside the rug. 23

I saw that the flower pot kept on the window sill had fallen down. I felt pity for poor soul. I went in and came out with an old towel. I went near the innocent one and held it in my hand and wiped the puppy till he had become dry. I took it inside and made a bed for him with a woolen rug and a small pillow. He seemed very comfortable in his new bed as he went to sleep immediately. The next day morning, everyone in the family came to know about the unusual guest. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Shall we keep him with us?â&#x20AC;? I questioned my mom. Like any other parents would, my parents first totally refused my idea but I and my sister convinced them to keep Spotty. Slowly Spotty got easily mingled with everyone and became one of the family members. We got used to all his small habits and pranks. Days passed on and one evening when Spotty returned from his long walk, he appeared very exhausted. He came to my room and sat near me. It was then I saw that his hind leg was injured and was bleeding. I called out my mother and she quickly tied a bandage around his leg and gave him food to eat. I was very upset. But the next day, Spotty was up to his usual pranks though he limped a bit. After this incident my relation with Spotty became more intense. I really admired him a lot for his courage.

Almost a year later, one midnight we heard Spotty barking breathlessly. We came out and saw that he was barking continuously heading somewhere. After some time Spotty became quite. I patted him on his back and came inside. The next day morning, my heart skipped a beat when I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x;t see Spotty. I searched for him in each and every corner but he was nowhere. And this time he had gone and would never come back. I cried and waited for him. We waited for one long week. But there were no signs of him. Then one day my Dad got transferred to Mumbai. We shifted back to Mumbai. What would have happened to Spotty? Would he have died? These were the only questions in my mind, but they all remained unanswered forever.

MAFIA WARS Kübra Yıldız It was silent but suddenly a loud noise came out from nowhere. There was a girl that was sitting on the corner and crying painfully. She looked deeply around the hall, maybe thinking about important things. Immediately, she screamed and started to cry. 3 days ago Anna: Mum, what should i wear? Her mother: You can wear whatever you want. Anna: Mummy, can you choose it for me , please? I can not choose which colour I should wear. Her mother: Okay, wait. I am coming. Then she came to Anna‟s room. Her mother: In my opinion you should wear the red one. Anna: Mum, I dont like red, it looks like blood. when i see the colour red, it reminds me of death. Her mother: Don‟t believe in silly things. Red is the colour of love. Anna: Okay mummy it is enough. I will wear the red one. Her father: Hey, where are you? I am still waiting, be quick, please Anna: Okay dad, we will come immediately. They were going to copartner‟s son‟s wedding. Her father was the most popular guy in the mafia and all of the mafias were there. There were a lot of dangerous people with guns everywhere.

Anna‟s father‟s and copartner‟s enemy attacked them. Thenthe were sounds of shooting and screams. Everywhere was covered in blood. She was very worried about her parents and started to look for her parents and eventually found them. However suddenly they died. She called emergency service, passed out and opened her eyes in the hospital. She didn‟t have any relative. She was alone in the dangerous world.She was just 13 years old. She dicharged from the hospital and screamed, started to cry. She felt very angry and promised herself to kill her parents murderer. She went to home and had all of her parent‟s Money. She thought it for a long time. Days/ weeks passed and she was thinking about how she could kill her parents‟ murderer easily. She decided to learn martial arts and went to Japan.

Five years later, she became the strongest woman in the Japanese mafia. She came back to Russia to kill her parents‟ murderer. Actually she wanted to start the biggest mafia war in Russia and destroy them. She had power and grudge but she didn‟t know how to do it impressively. There was mafia assembly that night. She wore the red cloth and swooped down the mafia meeting. Before she killed them, she explained why she kills them. Anna said “ Did you remember me? You killed my parents five years ago and innocent people. Mafia is a terrible thing in the world because of this it must destroy and i will destroy each of you will die and go to the hell.” They attacked her. A guy cut her leg but she didn‟t stop killing them. The last one was her parents‟ murderer. She shoot his eyes, mouth, heart and finally his head.

SPEAKING PICTURE Seda Çeçen I am a picture. No, not the kind you‟re expecting me to be: an invaluable piece of art, a portrait maybe, of a lady with an complicated half-smile that the world finds time to be obsessed about; hanging on the wall of the world‟s largest museum. Not a picture worth looking at, let alone gaze at, in fact. If you could hear me, you‟d know that I know about the oil painting you call Mona Lisa, located in the Louvre museum. You‟d know I know about nouns too! I can entertain you with the inside jokes shared by teachers and even their whims and pains. You‟d know your austere teachers also worry about fashion and leave over with their “homework” just as you do. But of course, my voice goes unheard, lost in the familiar chaos called silence which envelops photographs of our stature. Breaking into pieces of our blurry faces become one with their environments; barely visible, perfectly unimportant. I am flattened, along with my other colleagues, in the rarely opened pages of an old yearbook, which people so fondly browse through. I catch a fleeting glimpse of these visitors when they sometimes and unknowingly find themselves here, where they see numerous ladies covered uniformly in plain, blue saris(the dress of India). These seem to classify me into a category, a single collective noun, which the editors thought, enough to describe us. Under the picture, there are no names, unlike the other pages with other people on them. So we must suppose this collective noun of people is not a person, just one big category that‟s unworthy of attention and so goes unnoticed by people, despite their inexhaustible contributions. 29

Your memory related me, or any of my colleagues, will be poor, almost disappearing. But my recollection of you doesn‟t get rid of me. I remember you, from the naive three-year-old kid holding my hand on the way to the washroom, to the maturing girl with accentuated features, in her youth. You were hand-in-hand with another boy, afraid of the teachers for sure, but indifferent to me, because I don‟t have the right or permission to rebuke you. Now I see you as an established reporter, writing for the New York Times, ready to get married even. You have no idea, who or where I am, yet. So you, this wise young audience, who care enough to linger on the page I keep busy, allow me to somehow telepathically transmit my messages, which is how I‟m able to articulate my thoughts into words. But you cannot differentiate between our faces; to you it all appears the same. We are just there because that‟s how it should be, do work, and get no recognition. But then, there‟s the payment, you‟d argue. True; the yearly pictures too, where we keep busy an infinitesimal part. But I want to scream out from the picture, scream till I‟m heard, till the sound waves carry the scream to the nearby person who cares so little. I want to say “I have a name! My name is Fatema! Do you hear me? I am Fatema!” But then, you‟ll desperate flip the page over, flattening me again in the store up of pages, burying those sound waves so restless and impatient to reach you.

TIFFANY THE TOMBOY Aysu Ă&#x2013;z Tiffany Brooks is an eighteen year old teenage girl who had troubles in her high school life previously. Fortunately this was the last year of highschool and this hopefully means that she is starting a new unproblematical life in college in 3 months. This year will be a start of a brand new life for her. At least she hopes like that for now... Tiffany is the youngest child of Mr. and Ms. Brooks. She is the only daughter of them. Other 3 siblings of Tiffany are all boy and older than her. This caused her to grow like a boy. When she is compared with her girl peers we can see that she is much stronger, less girly. We can say that this characteristic of Tiffany is the actual reason why her high school life accepted as problematical. She lives in a suburb named Zigzag. Where girls act "too much girly" with her own words. Four years ago, when she finished secondary school, her parents didn't let her go for a high school which isn't placed in Zigzag. This was an indirect way to force her to go to the high school which will become a nightmare for her. Because there was only one high school in the suburb. The reason why she didn't want to go to the Zigzag High School is that her all peers have already enrolled in Zigzag High School. Through the secondary school she has always been excluded by her friends. Girls didn't want her in their groups because she doesn't like playing with barbies or going shopping to buy new pinkish clothes and thousands of other reasons that Tiffany doesn't like but all the other girls do. When it comes to boys, this time she didn't want to be friends with them altough they don't keep her distance. She doesn't want them around her because, her 3 brothers are such fail people in the eyes of her. She finds the way they treat to people or even the way they treat to each other, so 31 rude and selfish. And that caused to have a hate for boys.

There wasn't any friendship problem for her in primary school but by the time the secondary school started girls also started to form groups. Pink Lovers, Tall Ones, Forever Dancing. Of course Tiffany didn't included to any group. Because she doesn't like pink or dancing. Also she was almost the shortest girl in the school. So all the Gates of groups were closed. And all the groups were in control of Kayla Beast. Kayla the Silly as Tiffany's words. Kayla's nickname of course wasn't the Silly but the Slim. She tought Silly fits better than slim and that's way she is the silly one for her. She is the most popular girl in the school. And all the girls obey her dictations doesn't matter if they are rational or not. Kayla hated Tiffany. So do all the girls. She was the actual reason why she describes her primary and high school life as nightmare. Because they were in the same school all those years. The idea of starting the college has always seemed as a salvation for years. Because her parents didn't limit her in this subject. She was free to go to school that she wants for the first time. She didn't think going abroad or outside the city for college as the city's only college that has the gastronomy department is only 30 minutes far way from Zigzag.

Because she always wanted to be a cook since childhood. However the school takes half an hour to go, she decided to stay in dormitory in weekdays. At least to avoid from their brother for 5 days. And all the rooms in the dormitory were double. That was also an advantage. Because she always shared the big but same room with her brothers up to now. Summer has finished. She signed to the dormitory. And waited for the monday to come. :) She has started to hope that her roommate is a nice person and she eventually can start a new life and develop a new identity. In the evening of Sunday she moved in her room and waited for the other girl to come.. One hour passed and the teacher guiding her new roommate appeared in the door. That was the weirdest minute she has ever lived until that time. Because she was super-excited first but when those words said by the teacher, she faint dead away. "Yes, Ms. Beast. This is your new room for the next 4 years...

SIGNPOSTS Aysena Nur Çınar Daphne and her mother finally went on holiday that they had planned for a long time.They were full of exciment and had so much fun at the hotel where they settled during 1 week. They wanted to see the places to be seen so as a result of their conversation with an officer at the hotel ,they decided to go to the “ancient city” which could be considered far from where the hotel were located. Early in the morning when they were about to set off,they asked the officer if he could show them the driving directions on the map,but, he told them to follow the signs so that they could make it to the ancient city. They set out early in the morning,taking snacks in case they get hungry.Daphne was so excited because she did not do something with her mother for so long.Daphne and her mother were accompanied by music playing on the radio, and way too far from the settlement. They were climbing the steep road towards the mountain.Trees and greenery were no longer visible,and the car was on the narrow road anymore.Also two sides of the path were surrounded by high cliffs stretching to the sky and the road was flat. They were close to the summit of the mountain slopes and it was a rocky road and large holes prevented the car from keep going so that it could go slowly. They tried to progress in this way for a while. Daphne and her mother’s exciment and joy from the morning had been dominated by anxiety and distress. It had begun to frighten Daphne but she was trying not to expose. Daphne’s fear was growing every second and she muttered: “Please, get back now,Mom,look even the car is forced and also I’m so bored.” Her mother was afraid too,but, she did not want to bridle,she wanted Daphne to learn the life and continued to adventurous journey. “We are almost there Daphne,besides we have followed the signs.” she said. 34

After a while , they entered a narrower road that a car could not even pass. “Mom let’s go back, we won’t be able to make it to there.” Daphne screamed. When her mother did not listen to her and continued to move, the car stucked between the rocks. Car wouldn’t move but they wanted to get off. Doors could not be opened and they could not go out from the windows.They were both very frightened. While Daphne was crying, her mother tried to calm her at the same time she was thinking the possible solutions. “Don’t be afraid Daphne,now I will call for the service so they can come and take us to the hotel.” she said. When she took her phone out of her bag,she realized that there was no signal. Daphne’s mother kept comforting her although she did not know what to do. Until the night,Daphne and her mother cried and hugged each other as they consumed the limited food they had brought with them. The fear was increased thoroughly by the nightfall and they could hear the sounds of wild animals. Daphne and her mother started to think they wouldn’t be able to get out from the car. They opened the car's headlights to decrease a little bit of fear, but after a while thinking it would finish the car's battery, Daphne’s mother started the engine.Through midnight,Daphne,who was exhausted, fell asleep and her mother was droping off at times then woke up again,it happened a few times.A short while later, the lights were turned off by the end of the petrol car and the car had stopped. Daphne woke up with the morning’s first light then woke her mother up.They were both hungry and thirsty. They had started to believe the idea strongly that they would die in the car and fell into despair. When Daphne and her mother thought about the car would be their graves,after a while they would suffer and die because of hunger and thirst and when their dead bodies would be found,their fear was growing. 35

They heard the sound of the engine through the end of the third day and the sound was getting closer.After 3 days passed by,the mother and her daughter were unconscious and they couldn’t even react. A short while later, they approached the sound as well then heard the human voices.They wanted to wake up and yell that “We are here!” but they just couldn’t find the power inside. Then the police said “Dont be afraid, we will get you out of the car soon!” After struggling for a while, the car went backwards with a squeak. Finally the police took Daphne and her mother out of the car and gave them water immediately. Although Daphne’s mother collected herself, Daphne couldn’t get it together. “How did you find us?” asked the mother. “The officer at the hotel made us know. We’ve been trying to find you for 3 days and also someone changed the signposts so that’s why you took the wrong turnings.”

A NORMAL DAY IN 10F IB CLASS

FRIENDSHIP Hande Sekmen He was very hungry and tired.Because of his sister.He was thinking about his sister‟s matter.She was not okey for a four days.She has high temperatures.He was very upset for it, but he could not do anything for she.Because he was only fourteen.If he is about twenty now he can do something for his sister.For example he can find a job for earn money. He and his sister have not got mother or father.Their parents died when Chris was ten.They were living their grandfather’ home.But he could not do anything, too. Because of his age and lick of money. He was too old. So they were poor. They had no money. Even they could go to the doctor they could not by her medicine. But Chris did not want wait. So he thought that he must do something for his sister. Because he loved his sister too much. He wanted to play with his sister again, as last time. He decided to finda way about it. But firstly he had to visit his best friends; their neighbor Daniel. He was his class mate and close mate. He went. He rang the door. Daniel’s mother opened the door. She was very happy when she saw Chris. Then Ms. Fenson called his son. Daniel came. He was very happy too see Chris, too. Then they went to park to talk each other. Chris told everything to Daniel. Daniel was very sad to hear that. And he said ‘’do not worry we will do something for your sister, believe me we can save her. And we can be her hero?’’ Chris smiled when heard it. They decided to go to their teachers. Maybe Ms. Bean could help them. She loved them. They went to their school. 40

An they started to look for her. They looked everywhere. But she was not at school on that day. Daniel went his brother’s teacher. He was Ms. Bean’s husband; Mr. Bean. He thought that Mr. Bean must be know where she is. And they started to find him. But he was not at school, too. They were very disappointed. But they did not give in. Because Daniel was not want ; sad Chris. So they need to find another way. If they can find some money it will be okay for them. But how? They decided to go to their headmaster .Ms. Rose was very serious that day. So they could not ask their question to her easily. They just asked how could they find their teachers. Ms. Rose asked just one question quickly. Because she was very busy in that time. Ms. Bean and her husband went to holiday together. They felt bored themself…………… Chris asked their phone number to Daniel. Daniel said that ‘’ I do not know but my mother has their phone number. Because they were close friends in the past time. ‘’ Hey! Chris you need money, don’t you?’’ asked Daniel. ‘’ Yes’’ Chris replied. ‘’Oh why are we looking for our teacher I have some money, already. I saved’’ said Daniel. ‘’ If you accept my offer I can give you all of my money ‘’ said Daniel. Chris was surprised when he heard it. Why could not they think it before.’’ Yes please Daniel.Ineed this money. But not for me you know it is only…’’said Chris. And completed his sentences but it will be my debts. I will give you your money again in the future. They laughed. Daniel said ‘’Ok’’. Because he knew that he say no, Chris can not be relax., when he take the money.

A FRIGHTENING NIGHT Berk Furkan Uรงar It was a dark, stormy night, with the moon and stars illuminating theirselves greatly, weather is overcast. Animals are laboring to survive the abnormal conditions of the weather. Suddenly a rumble of thunder was heard and a fork of yellow lightning struck a mysterious, gloomy forest, which resulted in a sleuth of scary brown, grizzly bears emerging from the trees. The bears started bolting away from the large, green forest and eventually came to a huge river with rushing rapids and cascading waterfalls. Because these bears are all hungry. Thay are going to starve unless they do not eat anything in the stormy night. They caught a large number of tiny, silvery- grey fish in their gigantic paws and resumed their aimless wandering. They got enough. Meanwhile, the brightly coloured ducks that inhabited the nearby calm, serene, lily pad filled pond, had also heard the thunder and observed the humungous lightning strike and had managed to quickly fly to a small, costal town to the south of the pond. When they arrived, they started foraging for food like the bears. After a while, they managed to locate a burger topped with tomato, lettuce, onion and cheese dropped on the ground, which the ducks began to speedily devour. So where the burger come from? A few hours later, the bears had stampeded onto a golf course, only to be cornered by golf club wielding middle aged men wearing luminous shirts and old style clothes. The man got really scared because of the bears -bears are really dangerous animals that they hug each other they can kill their collateral.- It was a frightening night for him after that a man called animal control, and a busload of animal cops and workers, clad in blue and beige shirts with denim shorts and brown cowboy hats began their attempts to restrain the animals. Did they manage to curb these bears? 42

Eventually when all of the large grizzly bears were caught, animal controllers used tranquilizer injections. Bears are shot down by these injections for a moment because injections effect lasts for an hour. After bears are woken up. Animal controllers thought that forest is theirs, we can not harm any animal or any plant. We can not ruin the hormony of the nature. So that , they are set free into their natural habitat, only after full health checks and being fitted, they were able to go back though. A few days later, the yellow, blue, purple and green ducks also decided to fly back to their serene habitat, where they could swim in peace. The middle aged golfers although shaken up, decided to resume their game. The animal cops and the workers have never seen a case like this since that fateful fork of lightning struck. To this day, grizzly bears are never seen anywhere near golf courses filled with middle aged men and luminous shirts. Also animals know the kill people or any animals and plants unnecesarrily. Finally, the animal controllers and the harmony of the nature blocks to death of golfers.

MONKEY EATS BANANAS THAT HE STOLE FROM YOUR HOUSE Şimal Çiçek

Part 1 „‟The coming of Elizabethan traders,wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned the company to Burma was in 1826.That year… Oh God..One year ago I swear to you the town hadnt been that much crowded and hadnt seen food in abundance but when they came they brought all misery,dirtiness and hunger. Each of trees had borne five fruits and each of women had bore five children‟‟ said the old lady.She was looking thoughtful as I thought she was trying to remember something. „‟The family that had the most delicious bananas in the town were our neighbor .Here its their story‟‟ Part 2 The father was a miserable farmer who had five children.The elderest one was nearly ten years old.The mother had died while she was giving her fifth born and left her husband alone with all those bad conditions.They got a little house and a field.They were cultivating the most tasteful bananas in the town but they werent growing up anything else to sell.The only thing poor man had was that little field and his five children .One of the boys had a strawberry garden.It was his duity to take care of the garden.10 years old-girl-the elderest one-was cleaning the house and cooking the meal like a mother.The family werent getting much money it was enough for them. 44

Part 3 „‟Be quiet‟‟said the father gently when he opened the door.He was confused to make silent which one because the children‟s sobs were mixed.‟‟ They even removed the tombstones‟‟said while thinking about his wife whose body was stil warm.He snuffed out the candles and started to talk „‟Nothing is happening to the town or your strawberry garden or your fatty cat.‟‟ Part 4 The dawn hadnt broke yet and the town was completely silent even there were no birds in the sky.The silence was broken by a sudden knock at the door.Father opened the door gently.The man who was bald and wearing servant clothes came in even he wasnt invited.The servant didnt look at father‟s face because he was busy to search furniture. Sir James Lancaster has confiscated that town.From now; %50 of your product and some of your field belongs to him.There wont be any problems If you consider what I said.Have a good day ,Sir.’’said the servant. Part 5 People in town became poorer day by day because of the burden of tax liabilities.On the other hand Lancaster family was living in a manor that had more than fifty rooms.Even Madames monkeys that had golden leashes on their colar was richer than all town. Everywhere was full of bananas but especially these damn monkeys were stealing his bananas One of the girls got sick because of malnutrition.The poor man looked at bananas ,he stayed calm not to shoot the monkeys 45

Part 6 That was the 5th time that monkeys came to his field. ‘’Go away from here you damn’’ the rock that father threw made monkey’s head bleed.Father took the bananas that monkey left when he fled.Bananas were crushed but they could be eaten anyway. 2 hours later same servant came and started to yell at the poor man.He said he would punished by Lancesters .The punishment was taking all the bananas he had and a chicken that gave an egg every day for his children.Father couldnt say anything just wanted to see his wife again one last time and got into the house desperately. They all died one by one because of illness ,malnutrition and sadness of could not do nothing.