Mr. Young's 9th Grade Writers

“The Grocery Store” By Alice Warren             Do you want to travel to new places? Do you want to meet interesting people? Do you want to waste half of your money on stuff you don’t need? Then go to your local grocery store! When you arrive at your store, we always make sure that you take the personal tour of the outside of the building. In other words, looking for a parking spot for fifteen minutes. Once you finally find a spot at the back and hike uphill to the store, your fellow shoppers will leave a special cart for your convenience. The one with the broken wheel. After you stop trying to fix the wheel for another fifteen minutes, you can enjoy all of the wonderful products your store has to offer. Such as the Produce Section, where you’re never sure if anything is ripe. Perhaps you’re even brave enough to try the International Section. We recommend you taste the flavors of the world at your own home. Our bathrooms...

“Common Denominator”                                              By Jed Ledbetter                                                   Both of the other boys were very hopeful, and so was I. Probably more so than them. But now that I'm thinking about it now, it’s pretty funny. She did the exact same thing to all of us. She would act like she was in love for about two weeks, and then out of nowhere break things off. I felt awful about it until I found out it really wasn’t my fault, and that I wasn't unique.             It was a Friday night about two weeks ...