: About Me

My name is Shirley. I am a grandmother who has returned to school after a 28 year lay over. I am majoring in engineering and a minor in English.

I live with two room mates Pandora and Fantasia (they are cats but don't tell them that).

I found Helium by mistake while doing research for a chemistry class, I googled Helium and up this site popped. I have been here ever since.

My passion is ...

my granddaughter

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

"don't do that you're going go get hurt"

My childhood ambition ...

grow up

My favorite memory ...

the day my granddaughter was born

Why I write ...

because I can't sing or dance

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am currently reading the Nick Adams Series of Hemingway, while watching Family Guy, and later I will probably listen to some Blue Oyster Cult

My first job ...

working on a charter fishing boat

My best moment ...

the day I got laid off from my last job and returned to school

My inspiration ...

challenges

Creative Writing > Novel Excerpts Novel excerpts: War

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Robert surveyed his room. White walls jaundiced with age, an air vent that blows cold in the winter and hot in the summer and tiny flecks of plaster and dust onto the coffee-stained tile floor year round. There is a crack in the plaster ceiling that looks like a crooked grin which constantly taunts him. The room also contains a television mounted to the wall, a nightstand on which sits an empty Oriental vase, and his worn leather recliner. In the corner next to his bed hangs his thread- worn robe; above it hangs a dust covered spider web, both are the same foul color. Off in the distance R...

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