The brisk wind strikes me hard as the familiarity of the predicament makes me sick. “Thank god it’s Friday,” I whispered to myself as I kept walking closer to the bus stop. I then road the bus all the way to school, but when I got there…something struck me, a big accordion cork board with […]
At age 16, he sat beneath the road gentle to check till exhaustion kicked in. Typically, if he was fortunate, the highschool guard would let him sneak into the empty corridors to flee the chilly. Different nights, the guard shooed him away. The dearth of electrical energy within the house that he shared with six […]
In The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, the struggling protagonist of the novel, Edna Pontellier, is warned that, like a chook, if she doesn’t fly away from the ties of society and custom that she has been caged in, she is going to discover herself spiraling again right into a weak and damaged place. The creator […]
Plains, video games, and cars; the notorious group of three that turned me right into a thug. It was a heat summer time day, and I used to be a baby. But the gorgeous climate belied the actions on King Edward’s Manner, the place pure evil was happening. The horrible males had been decimating the […]
As a baby rising up in a predominantly black and Hispanic neighborhood, I wasn’t thought of actually Asian, definitely not as I’d later uncover it to imply. I by no means seen that I used to be completely different. I believed I used to be identical to my greatest good friend Charlotte, who simply occurred […]
Bunches of blocks, red green and blue, I’m completely obsessed, my friends see this is true. I ditch creative writing to play this mind boggling game, You know I’m ten times better than you, I put your skills to shame. I twist ’em and shift ’em until they fit the spot, The blues and greens […]
The sounds of bats cracking and overbearing dad and mom screaming surrounded me on my stroll to the quads. A cumbersome pink bag weighing me down due to my fragile measurement was the first indication that I used to be new to this sport. It solely acquired worse as I entered the dugout and unzipped […]
There was not a single, shining moment of clarity in which I suddenly understood the importance or working hard for my education. I did not lose a loved one. I did not have a near death experience. I did not visit a museum or a national landmark. I did not read an inspiring book or […]
Morning – high school students with glazed eyes stand under a streetlight; one stands apart, gazing at the stars. I am that dreamer. Every morning, I look toward the heavens, basking in the glow of the Greek and Roman gods. Orion watches as I get on the bus, Venus waves me off to a new […]
“We’re actors. We’re the opposite of people.” So states Tom Stoppard in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead.” I am an actor; therefore, I am not a person. Actors are a very special breed in that they must come to accept that they are just one piece of an entire puzzle. There are, of course, starring […]