The Local Thug

A particular encounter that I was directly involved in writing would in my ENG 400 class. Our assignment was to write a short story. We would later have our classmates read the story and give the reader feedback. The story I wrote was called “The Local Thug”. This story was about a young woman’s relationship with a man that took a tragic turn. In my story, I used the perspective of the woman and the perspective of the media about the young man. In my story, the young woman starts to date a young man by the name Zaire. She begins to build a relationship with Zaire which soon turns romantic. Most of the story is written from the woman’s perspective to give readers a better understanding of who Zaire was to her. The second half of the story, Zaire