Precis #6: The Red Dress

“The Red Dress” is a story about a young girl’s violent past catching up to her. For prom, Natalie’s father had given her a beautiful red dress that was a dress of her dreams. She loved it and at prom she was the girl that everyone envied. She was named prom queen and Lance Browick was the prom king, who was also Joann’s boyfriend. Jealous, Joanne showed her disturbing and violent past by attacking Natalie and assaulting her to death. Joanne was sentence to a reform school. But Natalie wasn’t so forgiving; her spirit haunted Joanne every night saying that she would get her revenge. After Joanne got out of that school, she had to attend a different high school to complete her education. She attended Lucretia Academy. When Lucretia Academy had a prom Joanne went to look for a prom dress. She went to a store and there she saw the red dress Natalie was wearing the night of her death. Ignoring that fact she bought the dress and now she was the envy of her prom. At prom, Joanne started to have trouble breathing and all of the sudden she collapsed and died. As they were laying Joanne to rest, she woke up in her casket and heard Natalie’s voice. Natalie told her that she had gotten her revenge and that her stupidity in buying that same dress caused her death. The same red dress had killed Joanne.

Precis #5: Death's Best Friend

“Death’s Best Friend” is a story about a man living on the edge. Jimmy accidentally had electrocuted himself and the Grim Reaper had decided to pay him a visit. He came to take Jimmy to his death but then he received a phone call that informed the Grim Reaper that it wasn’t Jimmy’s time to go. Jimmy still had life in him and the Grim Reaper accidentally told Jimmy that he had another 50 years to live. This was a big mistake because now when Jimmy returned to his normal life he lived on the edge not scared of death at all. He became known as the man with the most near death experiences. Time after time the Reaper kept coming back to lecture Jimmy on him not to risk his life, but Jimmy realized that the Grim Reaper had become his friend and liked to come and visit him. When Jimmy’s time to finally go had arrived the Grim Reaper asked him a question…to be his partner that way they would hangout and do their job together. Jimmy happily agreed.

Precis #4: By the Power of Three

“By the Power of the Three” is a story about a jealous ex-girlfriend and her plot to get revenge on the new girlfriend. Zoe and Toby were in love but when Toby said he couldn’t handle Zoe anymore and broke up with her, Zoe went ballistic. A few weeks later Toby already had a new girlfriend and when Zoe found out about this she was livid. She wanted to harm Toby’s new girlfriend because of her jealousy. She went into this store of witchcraft and asked the lady at the counter for something that could harm another person. The lady at the counter warned her that if she did something like that the Power of Three rule would apply which means that anything she does to harm someone else; the punishment for her would be three times as worse. Ignoring this she walked out of the store and went online to find what she needed. She cast a spell and that spell put Toby’s new girlfriend in a coma. The next day, still feeling happy with herself, Zoe got into an accident of her own and the Power of Three effect had been placed on her. Ion Zoe’s dream, she met the lady from the witchcraft store. She introduced herself as Toby’s new girlfriend and informed Zoe that her ignorance and anger would lead her to her death.

Precis #3: A Television Drama

“A Television Drama” is a story about a woman named Carolee Mitchell and her terrifying experience. It was a normal day, like another for her, when all of the sudden her day was turned upside down. Police started to pull up in front of her house, dogs, and reporters all arrived on the scene. All of the neighbors came out curiously to see what was going on as well. Carolee lived in a quiet neighborhood that would never be expected to have a situation like this. Although this was happening, Carolee kept her cool and didn’t panic. Then she looked out of her window and she saw a man who was badly hurt lying by the laurel hedges. Even though he looked like he was in pain she decided to ignore it and not tell anyone. Later on when her husband came home, he asked if she was okay and they started to watch the news. Carolee realized that living in the moment of the situation was easier to handle than watching it on the news because of all the twists the media puts on it.

Precis #2: The Father

“The Father” is a story about John Purcell and the unsteady relationship he has with his son, Johnny Purcell. Johnny had a boy scout meeting which he was supposed to attend with his father but did not want to ask him because they weren’t that close. Eventually John found out and went with his son to the banquet. He was very worried about the perception of the other fathers would have of him. At the banquet, he realized that he knew less about his son than most of the other people that were there. He knew he was missing out on his son’s life. Stressed out, he decided to try and take the edge off when he found another father that was uncomfortable in that situation and went for a drink with him. The drinking got out of control and when John went back inside he embarrassed himself in front of everyone. His son was so outraged that he never wanted to see him again. John knew that he had just lost his son forever.

Precis #1: A Handful of Dates

“A Handful of Dates” is a story about a young boy and his impression of his grandfather. The young boy loved his grandfather dearly. He spoke so highly of him and thought he was a pious and religious man. One day, the boy asked his grandfather about Masood, their neighbor that used to own all the feddans and used to be a very powerful man. His grandfather answered by basically saying that Masood lost all of his wealth because of women and that he was an indolent man. The grandfather said that when he first stepped foot on this land he did not own any of it but now he has taken two thirds of Masood’s land. Later that day Masood was harvesting his dates and as he was doing that the young boy’s grandfather started to distribute Masood’s dates to other people. After all the dates were gone, he said to Masood, “you are still in fifty pounds debt to me.” At that point the young boy’s opinion of his grandfather had totally changed and he felt like he hated him.