Prof. Jessica Penner | D304 | Spring 2022

Parmanand Sankar, Short Story 2(revised with dialogue)

Rob and his friend Lisa love to go rock climbing whenever they got the chance. They decided they would go rock climbing during their spring break. Rob and Lisa were both part of the rock climbing club but the club never really went rock climbing. So they both decided that’ll finally go together. They decide they would go rock climbing on the second day of their break not the first. On the first day, they went shopping for any equipment that they’ll need. To get to the rock climbing spot they need to take a bus early in the morning. They met up at the bus stop and started talking :

“It’s finally time for us to do the hike!”

” Yeah, finally Lisa! This day took too long to come. Hopefully, we’ll have a lot of fun.”

” It’s the first time we’ll be climbing together so it’ll definitely be fun.”

“Did you make sure to pack everything?”

“Ehh I think I have everything on my back… I’m not entirely sure. But anyway it looks like the bus is almost here.”

When they got on the bus Lisa fell asleep instantly because she didn’t get a second of sleep the night before. The night before Lisa couldn’t fall asleep because she was so excited to finally go rock climbing again. While Rob stayed awake on the bus ride and reviewed his journal about the equipment they had and what they were gonna do during that day. Rob wanted to make sure no mistakes occurred during their climb so he kept reviewing his journal because Lisa and Rob never did a hike with just them two only. Rob was stressed that something might happen and now one would know but he decided to not worry anymore. Rob wanted to believe that nothing would happen and that they’ll have fun on the climb. After a couple of hours, they finally arrived at the hiking spot. Lisa woke up and stormed out of the bus with all the equipment ready to go, Rob yelled out to Lisa, ” Hey don’t go without me. Wait up for me.” They decided that they would start climbing at the base of the mounting and set up camp at the top. At the base of the mountain, they put their gear on and started going up. They started talking while they were putting their gear on, ” Hey Rob I bet I’ll reach the top before you.” But Rob wasn’t that interested in what Lisa was saying because he was worried about what might happen. Rob then told Lisa, “let’s just hurry up and put our stuff on properly.” Rob was just stressing but hopefully, he’ll be able to relax once they start hiking. While they were climbing they saw different animals moving around in the forest. They saw a deer just waiting at the base of the mountain where they originally started. After a few hours, they reached the top and they needed to decide where they were going to set up camp. Lisa wanted them to set their camp up at the edge of the mountain but Rob was afraid that they might fall. After some convincing Rob changed his mind and they decided to set the camp up at the edge. They ended up staying up the whole night to watch the sunset because they had a good view up there. At the end of the day nothing bad happened and they had fun together. They started talking:

” We need to do this again but maybe we could try a harder one. Maybe we could do something riskier.

” Are you sure Lisa? Maybe we could just try something similar.”

“hmm no fun, maybe we could just talk about it when we go on our next break. Hopefully, we can figure it out during that time.”

2 Comments

  1. Aninda Das

    i love how the story speaks about the different hobbies the characters tend to have and despite the challenges that they face they should continue

  2. Rabbi

    I liked the story because of how they are overcoming challenges.
    I liked the dialogue because they are kind of full excitement and usual talk.
    Maybe punctuation in the beginning of the sentences can be fixed.

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