Adventures of a Shockingly Average 30-Something

***This post and the post titled "Treetop Secrets" are two short story pieces I had to write for my Creative Writing class last semester.  I'm posting them on here because I really like how they ended up.  We had to write a third person point of view short story and a first person point of view short story.   Treetop Secrets is my 3rd person POV story, and The Before: Sophie's Story is my 1st person POV story.  They go together, and Treetop Secrets is meant to be read first.*** The Before: Sophie’s Story   The small town was empty.   The sun was brightly shining down, lighting up the world for children to play in and creating what was possibly the last warm day of fall.   The trees were all bare, leaving behind mountains of leaves perfect for jumping in.   And still, the town was nothing but an empty shell of itself.   I walked down the street, wondering where everyone had gone to.   The next door neighbor’s had an 8 th grade daughter and 6 th grade son,...

***This post and the post titled "The Before" are two short story pieces I had to write for my Creative Writing class last semester.  I'm posting them on here because I really like how they ended up.  We had to write a third person point of view short story and a first person point of view short story.   Treetop Secrets is my 3rd person POV story, and The Before: Sophie's Story is my 1st person POV story.  They go together, and Treetop Secrets is meant to be read first.*** Treetop Secrets The tan skinned boy with fierce blue eyes sat quietly alone in the back of the crowded room, closest to the door.   He stared down at the blank piece of notebook paper on the desk in front of him.   A capped pen was being pushed back and forth across the tabletop by his fingertips.   Quiet people were good writers, that’s what he’d always heard people say.   He bit the inside of his cheek, thinking that maybe someone should tell them they have obviously no idea what they’re t...