Excerpt of Endurance

Written by April Thomas

Chapter 1-In one night

She lived with her mom, younger sister and stepfather. For as long as she could remember what seemed normal to her was not normal to others. For Mei, it was normal to see, speak and play with her great grandfather who was no longer living. He would show her things to come the good and the bad. When she occasionally had enough courage to tell her mom what visions she had her mother would ridicule her for daydreaming.

Mei got into trouble a lot for daydreaming her teachers were annoyed with her. Little did they understand Mei was not day dreaming at all. She was very gifted when she had a vision she would be completely taking in by the experience as if she were truly standing there. Watching everything happen around her. One afternoon when Mei was thirteen she had one of the strongest visions she could remember. A group of men had been trying to recover a lawn mower that had fell into the canal behind her house. Mei walked over to the back sliding glass door and gazed out at them.

They were scratching their heads trying to figure out how to get the lawn mower out. One guy had already dived into the dark murky water. He was shouting to his friend “I can’t even see my hand in front of my face.” As Mei touched the handle to the sliding glass door she instantly felt pulled into a vision.

Mei was standing on her back patio her mom ran past her frantic. Mei looked down by the canal in her back yard and there were the same men everyone was panic stricken. One man was on the floor screaming holding his right leg. It was bleeding heavily; the man was in a great deal of pain. Mei’s mom came running by screaming at her to get some towels, but she couldn’t move she appeared to be in shock.

Images of what had taken place moments before ran through Mei’s mind. The men decided it would be smart to attach a long metal chain to the back of their Ford and the other to the handle of the lawn mower, that by some miracle they found. The old rusty metal chain was not long enough, so they decided to add length to the chain with other chains. When they started pulling the chain by using the truck it got caught on a ledge.