Creative Writing Journals

Aha! Every time I passed by her house, the old woman watched me. It was like walking past a painting. Never once did she take her eyes off of me, not even to blink. I tried to ask my parents about her, but they said they didn’t see any old woman, and that, as far as they knew, no one lived in that house. We moved to the neighborhood only a few weeks ago, and I was still getting used to it. I once lived in this town when I was younger, but we moved away about five years ago so that my mom could take care of my grandmother, who was sick with dementia, and later, cancer. My mom was her only kid. We lived with her up until very recently. My mom couldn’t stay there. She sold the house, and we packed up and left. My parents found a cheap house to move into. It needed a lot of work done on it. The windows had hairline cracks in them, the sinks were rusty, and the front door was falling off its hinges. We didn’t have the money to help fix it, though, as we once did. My grandma had taken that f...

“Mom, I see them! They must have followed us here!” Azra walked over to the front window, where her daughter was pointing, and sure enough, there they were. At least six of them, all dressed in their blue uniforms, headed straight for her house. “Shut the curtains,” she told Muna. Muna nodded and began closing all of them, until it was no longer the middle of the day and now sometime in the evening. Azra took a seat at her small dining table, which sat only two people, trying to think. They would arrive in at least a few minutes by foot. She needed to get Muna out, but then what would she do? “I’m sorry, mom, I must’ve led them here.” Azra didn’t say anything, she just needed to focus. Why was Muna here? It was to get the files. She had to give them to Muna, and maybe Muna could make it out safely. She walked over to her old desk, which was slowly falling apart. Just like everything else in this hideout home, it must have been made decades ago. Azra hadn’t fled there to live an expensi...

Part one: Ordinary world - a teenage girl who lives in a regular city and goes to school Call to adventure - finds a little girl in an alley who’s “lost” Refusal of the call - either doesn’t want to help her or doesn’t know how to help her Meeting the mentor - the “mentor” is an old woman that they run into. They don’t recognize her at first, but figure out that she’s the girl’s aunt who had gone missing a long time ago. Crossing the threshold - have to leave the city because the police are after her and her parents are looking for her Tests, Allies, Enemies - this girl has special powers that she has to learn how to use, they have to make it to her aunt’s house Approach to the inmost cave - they come face to face with the police and others trying to find them. Supreme ordeal - nearly captured, but they somehow defeat them. Reward - the girl is finally safe The road back - they return back to the city Resurrection - return without her parents Elixir - they live with the aunt who keeps ...