Dear Diary,

Woke up yesterday morning and just felt like something was off. The city had a weird feeling as if they needed somebody. I went to work that day and thought nothing of it. I completed my daily tasks and got out around 6. I had a company dinner that I went to when I heard the news of a kidnapping down by the Empire State Building.

I sprinted to the bathroom to change into my patented tuxedo and headed down to where I knew they would be. Of course they were on the tallest part of the building. Apparently these guys were known as the Apple Thieves who went around and stole apple devices from people. This time they captured one of the higher up individuals at Apple and demanded that she give them the brand new products so that they could sell it on the black market. They threatened to throw her off if they didn’t get what they wanted. I ended up using some distraction techniques I learned by using various items around the site. I was able to take them down one by one to finally rescue her and retrieve everything they had stolen.

Let’s just say that they will be going to jail for a very long time! I loved the rush of the moment. I knew that these guys weren’t anything special but just being able to get into the heat of things is why I got into this profession in the first place. Can’t wait to continue to defend this city in the future. Thanks for listening diary!

-Austin Scarn (Midnight Rider)

Dear Diary,

Once again I am at a point in my life where I am contemplating about living a double life as both a spy and a student. My friends always ask me, “Hey, do you want to have dinner together?” and I usually answer back with, “Sorry but I am busy.” I do feel bad that I cannot come up with a reasonable excuse after that so when questioned “what are you doing” or “why,” I say, “I just am.” It is pretty hard balancing my time as a student as well as fulfilling my duties as a spy. What can I say, I am literally so busy with my life. I guess I can think of my spy duty as some sort of a club activity which most of my friends do these days and I don’t really feel like I am sacrificing my life taking on this job because I really do love my job. The fact that I am assigned to this area to catch the bad guys, or rather “the other spies,” makes me feel so important. One time I jumped when my friend casually said, “I aced my karate class yesterday!” because I wondered if she was taking karate to strengthen her “spy” skills. Of course, it was pretty silly for me to assume that every strange qualities of the students here portrayed spy characteristics, but at the same time, I can never let my guard down because spy could essentially be anywhere, at any time. That is why I myself have to be careful too, because the other spies are probably looking for me too and I could accidentally reveal my secret identity to them if not heedful.

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For this week, I had to watch Vonnegut on the shape of stories and apply one of his methods on one the writing stories in the writing assignment bank. Vonnegut basically explains that stories have shapes which can be drawn. Meaning that a story’s main character has ups and downs that can be graphed to reveal the story’s shape. There are different ideas that can shape stories: Man in the hole, Boy meets Girl, From bad to worse, Which way is up?, Creation Story, Old Testament, New Testament, and Cinderella. For this assignment I decided to do my own creation ” The every day Life of a spy” which was to create a short narrative of a spy’s life as a journal entry. And I decided to do a combination by using one of Vonnegut’s methods. I choose to do Boy meets Girl, which means that the main character comes across something wonderful, gets it, loses it, and then gets it back forever.

It was kinda hard to figure out a narrative as journal entry but once I started typing the entry become much easier and I found myself finishing it quick:

January 30 2017

” I think he wants me allow him to join in my secret life to help me . Everyday he is staring at me like I will blurt out all my secrets. You are probably wondering who I am talking about. In fact it is my husband. We argue, him asking why can he learn more about my double life and I telling him it is nothing to worry about. You are probably wondering why can I not tell him if he already knows I am a spy but you guys do not know that these very secrets could get him killed. All I am trying to do is keep him safe and out of the CIA’s radar. When we first meet, he did not understand why we could not meet in public for dinner dates and always had to go to his place never mine. Soon he started asking questions and we would argue and eventually he had left. It was a terrible few months we were apart and it even hindered my ability to be a spy. it turned out, we were both miserable and eventually came back to each other. We finally came to an agreement that I would tell him my big secret and He will not ask anymore questions. So I told him that I was a Spy. Now that we are husband and wife, it is getting harder and harder to hold secrets from him. And it is getting harder to hold secrets of him from others. I will fight whoever becomes between him and I. Hopefully it does not come down to it. But for now we will take every day at a time together.”

I was playing some craps at the craps table when all of a sudden I saw him. The guy who has been tracking me. I quickly tried to hide but his crew and him saw me. They dashed after me, I had to run across a blackjack table. And escape out a backdoor. I then dashed across a street through open traffic. I am exhausted right now, but I managed to slip away. There is no telling when they will find me again. Until then…

Agent Seeb