Example of a Short Story

To help demonstrate what I feel is an effective waymeth head, and discovered that she had put the child
to write a short story, I've whipped up a silly littleup for adoption about a year after its birth. Mr. Jawa
something. I hope that this example can help you indecided that it was imperative that he find his child,
any writing you're doing. To the story!and so he went to the local orphanage and looked up
Sushi Jawa is dead. He died in 1973 after beingwhere his child had gone. He didn't even know it's
bucked off his bull in his final rodeo show prior to hisname. He soon found that the child's name was
retiring. By the time the rodeo clowns had gotten theXavier and that it was a boy. He also discovered that
bull off of him it was to late. Sushi Jawa had sufferedthe last that was heard of him he was in St Louis as
a major concussion and entered a coma for 36 hoursa waiter at a Steak n Shake. He rented a car and
before dyeing in a Red Cross hospital.drove to St Louis, and found the Steak n Shake,
In the first few years after the end of World War 2asked around for his address, and headed to his long
and Japan's defeat, Sushi Jawa spent most of hislost son's house. No one was home so he waited on
time devoted to developing his Rodeo Show tothe front step. When his son finally arrived after an
become somewhat of a hit and a tourist attractionhour, he was obviously drunk, and when Sushi tried
as the "Only Rodeo This Side of the Atlantic". Byto tell him he was his father, Xavier hit Sushi. Sushi
1952 Sushi Jawa's Rodeo was making him sufficientcried, but then knew that he had only him self to
enough money for him to be considered mediumblame and that the only thing he could do was try
upper class. Sushi decided upon looking back at his lifeand fix the world so that this would never happen to
prior to The Epiphany, as he liked to call it, that heanyone again. He promptly returned to Japan and
ought to go back to America to visit his homeland.began putting fifty percent of his earnings from his
He decided he needed to know who he was, whererodeo into a planned pregnancy equivalent in Japan.
he'd come from. He needed answers, and heOn one of his visits to the planned pregnancy clinic,
intended to meet his son.Sushi made conversation with the secretary, and
So in the autumn of 1952 Sushi Jawa flew to Thethey arranged for a date. One thing led to another
United States of America to his home town ofand they ended up getting married. 5 years after
Springfield, Missouri. He discovered almost immediatelythey got married, they had twin boys and named
upon his arrival that his arrival that his father had killedthem Yoshi-mitsu and Mitsurugi.
himself about the time that Hiroshima was bombed.Although Sushi Jawa died before he could see his
Sushi's mother had left his father and the grief andson's finish their upper schooling, he still lived the rest
pain of losing the only two things keeping his sanityof his days the happiest man alive, and he always
was too much, and he jumped to his death from theremembered the Hiroshima bombing, and knew that
top of the Darth Vader building. After he found thisalthough the situation was no doubt terrible, there
out he figured he could at least find his mother, but itwas at least some good, because one man's life was
turns out that she died of breast cancer one year tosaved. And through that he saved the lives of many
the day after his father killed himself. Sushi was leftothers.
with only one person in the world with his bloodI put a lot of time into this story, so I really hope
pumping through their veins, and that was his son. Hethat you liked it. I think that there's a lot that can be
found his old girl friend, who had since become alearned from examining the writing of others.