1. There were little things that she simply could not stand.

The sound of someone tapping their nails on the table. A

person chewing with their mouth open. Another human
imposing themselves into her space. She couldn't stand
any of these things, but none of them compared to the
number one thing she couldn't stand which topped all of
them combined.

2. Was it enough? That was the question he kept asking

himself. Was being satisfied enough? He looked around
him at everyone yearning to just be satisfied in their daily
life and he had reached that goal. He knew that he was
satisfied and he also knew it wasn't going to be enough.

3. There was something special about this little creature.

Donna couldn't quite pinpoint what it was, but she knew
with all her heart that it was true. It wasn't a matter of if
she was going to try and save it, but a matter of how she
was going to save it. She went back to the car to get a
blanket and when she returned the creature was gone.

4. Dave watched as the forest burned up on the hill, only a

few miles from her house. The car had been hastily
packed and Marta was inside trying to round up the last of
the pets. Dave went through his mental list of the most
important papers and documents that they couldn't leave
behind. He scolded himself for not having prepared these
better in advance and hoped that he had remembered
everything that was needed. He continued to wait for
Marta to appear with the pets, but she still was nowhere to
be seen.
5. He had three simple rules by which he lived. The first was
to never eat blue food. There was nothing in nature that
was edible that was blue. People often asked about
blueberries, but everyone knows those are actually purple.
He understood it was one of the stranger rules to live by,
but it had served him well thus far in the 50+ years of his
life.

6. Don't forget that gifts often come with costs that go

beyond their purchase price. When you purchase a child
the latest smartphone, you're also committing to a monthly
phone bill. When you purchase the latest gaming system,
you're likely not going to be satisfied with the games that
come with it for long and want to purchase new titles to
play. When you buy gifts it's important to remember that
some come with additional costs down the road that can
be much more expensive than the initial gift itself.

7. She tried to explain that love wasn't like pie. There wasn't
a set number of slices to be given out. There wasn't less
to be given to one person if you wanted to give more to
another. That after a set amount was given out it would all
disappear. She tried to explain this, but it fell on deaf ears.

8. She had been an angel for coming up on 10 years and in

all that time nobody had told her this was possible. The
fact that it could ever happen never even entered her
mind. Yet there she stood, with the undeniable evidence
sitting on the ground before her. Angels could lose their
wings.
9. 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.