“Bend your fingers back as far as you can. Stretch your arms out like a bird. Open your mouth.” This is the best doctor’s appointment ever. I had not received any shots, and in my ten-year-old mind, that constituted a successful visit The Italian side of my family hadn’t seen anybody who was as skinny […]
Atop the current of the lake, a young woman zoomed on a gleaming red jet ski. Her long, brown hair flew behind her, strong and full of life. One year later, her now limp hair surrendered to radiation and fell to a cold, ceramic floor. Despite the untrodden path set before her, she persevered fearlessly. […]
“I love being RANDOM because pancakes are cool” Recently, I have always felt the urge to write and write and write and never stop. Despite all my schoolwork and extracurricular and what not, I wanted to unleash my thoughts onto a blank screen, satisfied that I could at least make pictures out of words. Thus, […]
It was simple. Lift the weight and win. The only thing standing between me and my medal was my competitor and what looked like a hundred pound bar. The bar seemed to daunt me as I tried to figure out how to lift it without making a fool of myself. As I looked to the […]
An intense game of darts was at hand. That seven feet nine inches felt so much farther away than it looks. I wound up my arm, aimed for the bull’s eye, released, and hoped for the best. Not to anyone’s surprise, my dart didn’t even hit the board; in fact my dart just added another […]
I felt gravity take over, sucking me to its very core. There was no room for emotion now; I used to be enveloped in an countless continuum of silence, damaged momentarily by the rhythmic thundering of my coronary heart. After I was youthful, I used to be completely fearful of heights. I’d have nightmares during […]
In the balmy summer night air, a shadowed figure sat motionless. As I approach, I see the person’s profile; she is looking up at the stars. It is a common activity for us, to just sit and watch the stars shining upon the grass surrounding our home for the last month. I come up and […]
Is Rome beautiful or is it in ruins? DonOt take a look at me; IOm hardly a probable candidate for a solution. Go ask the president of my schoolOs Latin membership, who labeled her journey there each staggering and awe-inspiringO. Who may compete with that Assessment? All of us needed to write back-to-school essays about […]
The math quiz lay menacingly on the desk below. Although I had been attentive in class and had studied the lesson the night before, my brain was not clicking. My head started to boil with frustration and worry, and my ears turned crimson as the clock’s second hand raced rapidly around its circle. Five minutes […]
Crossing the finish line in first place, I’m happy…until the moment my eyes look up at the clock. It wasn’t enough. My time was just shy of that seventh varsity spot on the Cross Country team. My family comes to congratulate me and I force a smile. They remind me that I’d done my best […]