1. I don’t like cats and they don’t like me.

I used to be allergic
to them and I would get stuffed up and have hives. That
doesn’t seem to happen anymore. But I still don’t like them.
I lived with 3 cats that were not good at peeing in the litter
box. They seemed to find something important to me and pee
on it. Most of the time they peed on photographs or papers
that would be ruined. Cats also bring fleas into the house.
There is nothing worse than having to flea dip cats and also
flea bomb a home. That is why I don’t like cats.

1. Patrick didn't want to go. The fact that she was insisting they must
go made him want to go even less. He had no desire to make small
talk with strangers he would never again see just to be polite. But
she insisted that Patrick go, and she would soon find out that this
would be the biggest mistake she could make in their relationship.

1. He heard the song coming from a distance, lightly floating

over the air to his ears. Although it was soft and calming, he
was wary. It seemed a little too soft and a little too calming
for everything that was going on. He wanted it to be nothing
more than beautiful music coming from the innocent and
pure joy of singing, but in the back of his mind, he knew it
was likely some type of trap.

1. I recollect that my first exploit in squirrel-shooting was in a

grove of tall walnut-trees that shades one side of the valley. I
had wandered into it at noontime, when all nature is
peculiarly quiet, and was startled by the roar of my own gun,
 as it broke the Sabbath stillness around and was prolonged
and reverberated by the angry echoes.

1. Barbara had been waiting at the table for twenty minutes. it

had been twenty long and excruciating minutes. David had
promised that he would be on time today. He never was, but
he had promised this one time. She had made him repeat the
promise multiple times over the last week until she'd
believed his promise. Now she was paying the price.

1. Hopes and dreams were dashed that day. It should have been
expected, but it still came as a shock. The warning signs had
been ignored in favor of the possibility, however remote, that
it could actually happen. That possibility had grown from
hope to an undeniable belief it must be destiny. That was
until it wasn't and the hopes and dreams came crashing
down.

1. The shoes had been there for as long as anyone could

remember. In fact, it was difficult for anyone to come up
with a date they had first appeared. It had seemed they'd
always been there and yet they seemed so out of place. Why
nobody had removed them was a question that had been
asked time and again, but while they all thought it, nobody
had ever found the energy to actually do it. So, the shoes
remained on the steps, out of place in one sense, but
perfectly normal in another.
 1. He couldn't move. His head throbbed and spun. He couldn't
decide if it was the flu or the drinking last night. It was
probably a combination of both.

1. It had been a simple realization that had changed Debra's life

perspective. It was really so simple that she was embarrassed
that she had lived the previous five years with the way she
measured her worth. Now that she saw what she had been
doing, she could see how sad it was. That made her all the
more relieved she had made the change. The number of
hearts her Instagram posts received wasn't any longer the
indication of her own self-worth.