Some Thoughts Magazine By: Valentina Cruz
Table of content Introduction .................................................................................................... 2 Lost ................................................................................................................. 3 Dear Diary: ...................................................................................................... 4 Six-Word memoir ............................................................................................ 5 Acronym .......................................................................................................... 6 The house of the bottom................................................................................. 7 Thank you...................................................................................................... 13 Conclusion ..................................................................................................... 14
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Introduction
In this magazine you will see different writings made by my own. Hope you like it. If you like horror stories, self-teem or a little sadness, this is for you, if you like horror, maybe you would like my favorite one that is the short story, named “The house of the Bottom� I like it the most because it talks about a horror story, I like to read and write those kind of histories, because I feel the emotion and suspense of what is happen with the main character, also with the people in the story. I like to create my own stories, it was funny and my head was full of ideas. Talking about the favorite one, also the most difficult to write was the short story too, because it was the largest of all, I need to create a good story with sense, named all characters, make the story follow a chronologic time and to not have grammatical mistakes. A reason why people should read this magazine is because the texts talks about love, friendship and self-teem. Some of the texts are my ideas, experiences and also what I know of other people that helps me in my way. So maybe people can talk about this later to recommend others like other options or ways.
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Lost
Lost in my ideas Lost in the idea of wanting something I don’t need I don’t really need it I can breathe without it I know I can really breathe but actually I need some encouragement Then I start to realize Th at... I don’t need something I need someone Yes I have that necessity Even if I deny it I know that I need it And that, is you
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Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Dear Diary: Today at 1:20 pm, passed an earthquake here in Mexico, it was of 7.2 grades in scale of Richter. I don’t know well where it was the epicenter but it was also here in Puebla, I think in the limits of there, and know, dear diary, I’m going to tell you how it happens… I was in class of teacher Marcos, when I thought I had a nervous tick or something like that and jumped because of it, but then everybody standed up and someone said “¡it is an earthquake!” so the teacher said “¡run guys, run!” and all my classmates started to run, while we were going down stairs, the earthquake continue, and it felt like the floor was moving side to side, it f felt scary but at the same time it was a rare sensation, like adrenaline, we reached to the security zone and the floor continued to move about 20 seconds more when it finally stopped, we were all scared and others were in shock, I called my parents and my brother but there was no signal, so I had to wait while I saw how my friends were, the signal finally entered and my mom asked me how I was and to waited for her at school, she arrived and we went home, my brother and father were there before we, everybody we all tell our experiences, it was really scary! After that in the news we saw that there were a lot of people dead, wounded, fallen buildings and people who needed help, so we soon decided to bought things like canned food, bottled water, toilet paper, etc and a few days later accompany my brother to his university to fix the food, blankets, toiletries and everything that people brought, in fact it was a beautiful action of everybody! that was really fantastic. It passed the days and people continued to give things, awesome! I will write you soon. Love Vale!!!! <3
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Six-Word memoir
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Acronym
arious things in my life re just passenger ike the bad vibes verything that makes me feel sad othing last forever ime pass fast just want to find my way ight will be more brilliant new day will rise
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The house of the bottom There was I, Casey, with a tragic thought, when I heard the story of the girl of an accident in a kitchen, I tried not to think about it, although I feared many things, my friend Jillian was attentive about my story, when I told her that the girl died because a carelessness of her parents, that after her death she appears to sacred in her house, and that it was necessary to share the chain so that she did not appear to you, Jillian said that it was a nonsense thing, that I have to forget it even if I shared that chain those things were not true, but I believed in that and I shared all the chains people send me, just in case, but Jillian would not let me share it, so I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t send it back, it had already spent a week and it was still really scared, but that was the least thing and I started to forget it, I would go on vacation to a house outside the city, in a town, in less than a day and I was not ready for that, Jillian and me decided to spend the holidays together, but everything get damaged, Jillian change my mind that maybe it wasn´t the end of the world, that I need to be more optimistic, my father told me that they had bought that old house and that it needed to be remodeled, I thought that at least there are going to be things to do and that maybe the time could pass quickly, the next day I said goodbye to Jillian and in my car, while I was listening to music, I thing how the house could be, passing through many hills and green areas, it not looked so bad, there was more fresh air and maybe I would know more about a new place, but when we entered to the town, it was not what I imagined, it was very small and the town looked so empty, there was one house per block and surrounded by trees, as if it were a forest, every
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three blocks was the name of the street written in a stone, and when we reached the one that looked like the last stone, I get frightened, because the name said ¨no way out¨ and being me, a little optimistic person and very frightened. I thought about a horror movie , I distrust, when we reached the end of the Street, it looked huge, big and a very old house, I wondered why my parents bought that house, I spent only 5 minutes and I wanted to go back to the city, I started to see how the house was like, and out of kidding, it was like a horror movie, it didn’t serve the electricity, the walls were made of wood and in some parts they looked ugly, there was no internet, no telephone line, it was the most remote of all the houses and from all the town, my parents were going down the things of the van, when I heard a noise in the upstairs, it was as something rolled, I thought that if there were still things of people who had lived here before, but in fact the real question was, how that thing rolled so I decided to get upstairs, I saw a room and then another an in the third I found a marble, it was heavy, big and black, it was impossible for the wind to have moved it, I turned around and when I saw a mirror, I get frozen, in the mirror it was written with dust on top of it, that said ¨get out of here¨, I run downstairs and I said to my parents, they did not believe me, they told me that it was a mischief of someone and they continued to settle in the house, I did not dare to go up again, so I helped them finish getting things down, when we finish my mom and I decided to go and buy more things for the week, when we arrived at the center of
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the village there was only a mini supermarket, the few people that were there already seemed to know us, they looked at us a lot and I heard someone whispering "the house at the bottom" when I turned around I saw that it was a lady of about 50 years, talking to the cashier, both looked scared, when we went to pay what we had picked the cashier did not bother to watch us more, we left a bit confused, but we let it happen, maybe they behaved this way out of simple curiosity to know who the new ones were in the village. We got home, ate dinner and I went to my new bedroom, fortunately it was not where the mirror was, but I still had to be careful, suddenly I was in the house but in the room while it started to burn in flames, I screamed at my parents, but there was no answer, I wanted to go out the front door but it was the one that was burning and I had to see if my parents were OK, I went up the stairs and went to the first room, they were not, the second, they were not too, I reached the third and enter, was the least burning, but they neither were there, I turned around and saw the mirror, was my reflection, I saw burned, dirty, but seeing me well was not me, seemed to be me but she was someone exactly like me, ยกbut it was not me!, and she saw me in a way I get scared, I shout and then I wake up, my heart beat very fast, I still feel the heat around me and I sweated, I thought it was just a nightmare, but I did not return to sleep, it was around 3 am and I had to wake up at 7 am to help in the house, I stayed all that time awake, until 7 am, I went down to breakfast and my parents were worried about me, I told them that I only needed to spend a moment outside, to meet the place, I left and I start walking, lost in my thoughts, until I saw that I no longer knew the way back, I hated myself for my lack of attention, in the
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distance I heard a noise that startled me, like steps breaking the dry leaves on the ground, I did not know if run, or wait to see if that person could help me, a boy came out from the trees, he looke like 14 years, two more than my age, brown hair, with very clear eyes, but he looked a bit clumsy, he stumbled over the bushes and he started to complained, I ran to help him and he gave me the thank you, his name was Alan, he knew I was the new girl in the town but I told him that I would only be in the holidays, he lived 5 blocks from my house, he also knew that I lived in the house of the bottom, but he told me that the house was haunted, I did not want to believe him, so I asked him how I could went back and he told me the way, I was some angry, maybe he had been the one in the mirror joke, I came home and started to help. It happened 8 days and It was really as horror story, sometimes when I was alone, the electricity went back, the lights went on all over the house but it only lasted 5 minutes, I told my parents twice, and again they did not believe me, things changed places and I heard footsteps when I was down, even the marble I had found when we arrived had disappeared, I told my parents if they had grabbed it and they told me not they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
even
marble, so I gave it up
for lost, and I listened
like a girl crying, until
I play to clean the
roof, we went up and
my father had to open
it with a hook cause it
was closed and we
know
what
did not have the key, there were many old things, books, photos, boxes full of old toys, even a TV and a radio, I took a look at the whole roof and I saw in the distance the marble I had lost, I was very confused, I knew it was the same but if I told my parents they would tell me I was crazy, so I did not tell them anything, I kept cleaning,
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and when they went down I started to see the photos, the house seemed to have been from a couple, maybe a little older, in all the photos appeared only the two of them, until one of the photos appeared a girl and once again I feel scared, was very similar to me, black hair,
almost
white,
looked like me in that
and
thin,
she
black
had
my
eyes,
photo, the girl seems like
she
age
obviously in that time,
but it was the only
photo of her that was in
the box, I save the
photo and I told my
parents that I should
go for a walk, I left and I
had no choice but to
go and look for Alan, he sure knew what had passed there, I arrived at his house and he opened the door, he let me through , I told him what had happened the last few days, and he told me that I had to meet someone, he took me upstairs and there was a lady of about 75 years, he asked her to tell Mildred's story, she hesitates for a moment but Finally she told me what happened, I did not know what to say or think, I asked Alan to notify my parents, we ran to the house but when we arrived there was no one, we went in and searched the entire floor downstairs, I had to explain to them that house was not safe, that they had been cheated, that an accident had already happened and that the couple with their daughter had died about 60 years ago, that they did not want anyone to abit there, and that Mildred tried to tell us to go that nothing happened to us because she died there with an explosion in the kitchen and her parents suicide, we heard something outside and Alan went to see what happened while I went up to see if they were there, then it started to smell burned, I came down from the roof and I saw the floor in flames, it was already arriving at the
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stairs and the first two quarters, I run into the third one, when I turned around to look at the mirror I saw me already burnt and dirty then I gave it was not me, it was Mildred, she gave me an expression of sadness, I lacked air, I heard the shouts of Alan telling me that he had already asked for help, when I saw Mildred looking towards the window, it was small but I would pass through it, I look for something to break it, I took the chair that was next to my desk, I hit the mirror until I broke it, I had to jump, I heard a sharp voice that said "now" and I jump while the fire falls out the window, when I fell my leg hurts and I fainted, I wake up on a stretcher, I saw the house made flames, while the firemen finished putting it off my parents went next to me, and I heard them say that the thing that caused the accident were the old short circuits of the light, so it exploded, I knew that part was true but not all, I turned my head and in the distance I saw Mildred among the trees looking at me, I remembered the story of the chain, I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know if that happen because i did not share it or it was coincidence, then I closed my eyes.
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Thank you
Thanks for everything Thanks because you are by my side You are my happiness And at the same time You are my sadness When you are away from me I fell incomplete You here next to me Is something Relaxing Thank you for my laugh Thank you for all the sadness Thank you for all the happiness You mean the whole world to me Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ther for you too
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Conclusion
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