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For this project we picked our favorite short story that we read this year and mine was the Cop and the Anthem. This program picked out the most important words of the story and put them like this.

For this project we had to write our own short story after studying the famous short story writer O'Henrey. I got to try my to write my own short story so I hope you like it.

Mom’s Love By;Sam Christian


 * In 1997 a man whose nickname is tiny. He got the nickname when he was a kid. He got it from his friend named Jimmy. When the boys were young they loved to play basketball across the street from the apartments where they lived. Tiny would always get the rebounds and jimmy wouldn't ever get any. Jimmy had a different advantage. He was the fastest kid in Chicago. Tiny’s mom’s name was Ethel and she would always love to see tiny having fun. **


 * She would always call Tiny and Jimmy in for supper and they would always eat together even though jimmy had his own family. Jimmy’s mom worked a lot so he spent a lot of time with Tiny and Ethel. **


 * Tiny and Jimmy were walking down their street and walked past a store front and behind the counter saw a briefcase. Tiny said to Jimmy “man I wish I could have that.” Jimmy said to Tiny “Well why don’t you just steal it, that’s what I would do.” Tiny said “No I’m not going to steal it, I can't steal those I've heard about prison and I don't want to go there.” Later that night Tiny asked his mom if she knew any ways to make some quick money. Ethel knew her stuff so she knew that there was something going on. She told Tiny that if he ever needed anything just don’t try stealing it. He then said ok but the advice didn't sink in at all. He was walking down the street again and he saw the briefcase again and again and day after day and he he just wanted it so bad. Jimmy convinced Tiny to steal the briefcase. His mom said don’t do it but if you do and get caught I’m not going to get you out. those two fought for about a week. Tiny told himself that he was going to do it. **


 * Jimmy and Tiny waited until about two in the morning and then they did it. Jimmy kept watch and Tiny broke into the store and grabbed it. They went home and opened it and found that it was filled with money. They thought that they were in the clear. One week went by and they were doing good and in fact they were planning another robbery. The two men were sitting in their living room and watching TV and then the phone started to ring. **


 * The man on the phone said hello. Is Tiny home? Tiny said yes this is him. Then the man on the other end of the phone said could you come down town the the station. Tiny got very nervous and said yeah sure ok. He knew that they had found out that he had stolen the shoes. He was super nervous so he went to talk to Jimmy and asked him what he should do. Jimmy started thinking that if they had found out about Tiny then they may know about him too! He was thinking of all kinds of ways to get out of this. Then the plan came to him. **


 * He was going to get out of the country because he had heard that it was easy to get away from the law. They had gotten into a car and set off for Mexico. A couple days later they were driving up to the border. They had gotten very nervous but they had made it across. Now they had to start looking for jobs. They found some jobs. They now worked for a moving company and thought that it would be very easy to take things while they were moving things into new houses. They got their first moving assignment, they had to move the things for a rich family. **

Tiny and Jimmy were in the middle of moving things in and looking at all of the nice things that this family had. They started with small things and by their third job had worked their way up to bigger things. A couple of months into the job people had started to notice, the cops set up cameras in their latest assignment. On the cameras they had caught them while in the middle of the crime. The cops were on their way. When the cops had gotten there they moved in slowly. Tiny saw one of the cops and said to Jimmy “Hey I see a cop and he is coming over here.” So they dropped what they were doing and started to run. The cops saw that they were running and shot both of them with a taser. They both dropped instantly. When they woke up they were at a police station,in a interrogation room and a cop was sitting right across from them. He said why did you come down to Mexico. They looked very nervous and the cop could tell. At that moment another cop came into the room and whispered something to the main cop. He then stood up and said you are both free to go, someone has paid your bail. They then walked out and went back to America and went to their home town. They had no idea who it was who paid their bail and they cared a little but they were just happy that they were out of that jail. When they got home Tiny’s mom asked where they had went and they told her that they went to visit friends for a few days. She knew that that wasn't what they were doing but she didn't say anything about it.

A few years down the road Ethel told Tiny that she was the one that had paid their bail. He then thanked her and things went back to normal and both men had learned their lesson.