Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-24101790-20140719152044/@comment-24101790-20140720174217

My intent is to share these stories. I don't plan to take any latitude on them like changing events.

Here's a short synopsis of the stories that I could possibly use (These are unpolished stories at the moment and I may not be able to get permission from the people to tell the stories in detail):

A female volunteer has a drunk host-brother come to her room at night and professes his love to her. She is not interested and closes the door. He begins hammering on the door and tells her he is going to break it down with his machete if she doesn't let him in. She doesn't. stumbles off, but doesn't return that night. She changes communities.

One volunteer has a traumatic experience on a bus that involves witnessing a man die by falling off a bus and take a swan dive onto the street below.

A male volunteer in Chinandega is hitching a ride back home to his community in a pick-up truck with a stranger. Mid-way through the drive, the driver opens a glove box and retrieves a revolver. He begins loading it and when asked, he tells the volunteer that the area they are passing through is dangerous and they need it for protection. The volunteer offers to use it to spook off any dangers so the man can drive (and the volunteer doesn't have to worry about being held at gunpoint.) The man gives the gun over and the car slows to drive over a bunch of rocks that are in the road. While navigating, the volunteer notices a bunch of men emerging from the fields with machetes. They stumble towards the car with machetes in hand and the volunteer has to make a choice.

One volunteer goes out drinking in Managua with some friends and hits on a Nicaraguan girl in the bar. He goes out with her and passes out. He wakes up at three in the morning without his wallet, cellphone, or pants in a ghetto in Managua. (It would be a funny story had the street he was dumped on nicknamed "murder alley." by the news.) He has to find a way home in a place he doesn't know without any way of contacting help.

A female volunteer is trapped in her house by a pack of dogs. She is stuck in her house for three hours by aggressive dogs while she tries to find a way out. I believe a pack of dogs can also be called a murder (like crows... a joke)

These are a few of the stories I can get into that would fit into the mood of the site.