1.

Green vines attached to the trunk of the tree had wound

themselves toward the top of the canopy. Ants used the
vine as their private highway, avoiding all the creases and
crags of the bark, to freely move at top speed from top to
bottom or bottom to top depending on their current chore.
At least this was the way it was supposed to be.
Something had damaged the vine overnight halfway up
the tree leaving a gap in the once pristine ant highway.

2. The cab arrived late. The inside was in as bad of shape as

the outside which was concerning, and it didn't appear that
it had been cleaned in months. The green tree air-
freshener hanging from the rearview mirror was either
exhausted of its scent or not strong enough to overcome
the other odors emitting from the cab. The correct
decision, in this case, was to get the hell out of it and to
call another cab, but she was late and didn't have a
choice.

3. Since they are still preserved in the rocks for us to see,

they must have been formed quite recently, that is,
geologically speaking. What can explain these striations
and their common orientation? Did you ever hear about
the Great Ice Age or the Pleistocene Epoch? Less than
one million years ago, in fact, some 12,000 years ago, an
ice sheet many thousands of feet thick rode over Burke
Mountain in a southeastward direction. The many
boulders frozen to the underside of the ice sheet tended to
scratch the rocks over which they rode. The scratches or
striations seen in the park rocks were caused by these
attached boulders. The ice sheet also plucked and
rounded Burke Mountain into the shape it possesses
today.
4. He wondered if he should disclose the truth to his friends.
It would be a risky move. Yes, the truth would make things
a lot easier if they all stayed on the same page, but the
truth might fracture the group leaving everything in even
more of a mess than it was not telling the truth. It was time
to decide which way to go.

5. It was that terrifying feeling you have as you tightly hold

the covers over you with the knowledge that there is
something hiding under your bed. You want to look, but
you don't at the same time. You're frozen with fear and
unable to act. That's where she found herself and she
didn't know what to do next

6.He had done everything right. There had been no

mistakes throughout the entire process. It had been
perfection and he knew it without a doubt, but the results
still stared back at him with the fact that he had lost.

7. The alarm went off and Jake rose awake. Rising early had
become a daily ritual, one that he could not fully explain.
From the outside, it was a wonder that he was able to get
up so early each morning for someone who had absolutely
no plans to be productive during the entire day.

8. He was aware there were numerous wonders of this world

including the unexplained creations of humankind that
showed the wonder of our ingenuity. There are huge
heads on Easter Island. There are the Egyptian pyramids.
There’s Stonehenge. But he now stood in front of a newly
discovered monument that simply didn't make any sense
 and he wondered how he was ever going to be able to
explain it.

9. He watched as the young man tried to impress everyone

in the room with his intelligence. There was no doubt that
he was smart. The fact that he was more intelligent than
anyone else in the room could have been easily deduced,
but nobody was really paying any attention due to the fact
that it was also obvious that the young man only cared
about his intelligence.

10. The wolves stopped in their tracks, sizing up the mother

and her cubs. It had been over a week since their last
meal and they were getting desperate. The cubs would
make a good meal, but there were high risks taking on the
mother Grizzly. A decision had to be made and the wrong
choice could signal the end of the pack.