Apostrophe

Sitting in class my stomach was twisting inside me, the teacher 's voice was a dull buzz, background noise to my thoughts. Anxiety rose like bile in my throat and made it hard to breathe. I couldn 't stop thinking about it, i was finally going to tell someone. The thought of telling made my stomach nearly combust, but i had been keeping this in for far too long. The air was so hot and damp in the classroom, it only made my anxiety worse and no matter how hard i tried i couldn 't focus on the…

"You aren 't human." It wasn 't a question, I knew he would figure it out. Of course, I thought he would 've figured it out sooner but late is better than never I assume. "Ah, he finally understands. No, I 'm not entirely human, but neither are you. Any of you." I point out to the crowd that has gathered seemingly out of nowhere. Smiling sweetly at their shocked faces. "What are you?" A voice to my left asked softly as if he were afraid, of who? Me? Surely not. The thought made me smile wider…

Every school, city, state, country and nation has someone to pick on. Maybe it's the nerdy kids, or the one with those weird shoes. Maybe it's because of how they think. In Lord of The Flies by William Golding, Piggy is the one person everyone loves to pick on. Compared to the other boys on the island, Piggy is overweight. He is also more intelligent than the other boys posing a threat to leadership. Piggy is the only boy on the island that hasn't fallen into savagery. In Lord of the Flies…

I am sitting in my room when I hear this obnoxious screeching sound outside the window. It doesn't sound like anything I had ever heard, but it also sounds extremely familiar, like one of those smells you can't quite place but you just know that it smells like something you've had before. I got up to go find one of my parents hoping I wasn't insane and they could hear it too, and when I walked out of my bedroom door I stopped dead in my tracks, remembering that they were going to Europe on some…

My feet had jagged rocks sticking out of the bottom of them. I had just stolen a blanket from a house I had broken into hours ago, and was now walking to the alley, I had learned to call home. As I laid my blanket down and crawled underneath, I couldn't help but look at the markings I had put on the wall behind me. 1,825 markings 1,825 days today was the fifth year anniversary of being homeless. Thinking about my life, truthfully there wasn't much I'd do different. As I laid still under my warm…

It was a crisp summer day and I was laying on the sandy beach of Dewmont Lake. The smell of sweat and sunscreen was in the air and it was a scorching hot day. So I decided to go in the water with my friends Callie and Emily. We splashed around in the lake and played all sorts of games with each other and with our other neighbors who were at the lake with us. One of my favorite games was chicken fights and I got to say Emily and I were pretty much the best team out there. Once we were tired of…

A few hours later Kassie and Malcolm were searching for Orie with the cops. They went everywhere in Disney World they went to every single park and even had random people they didn't know helping them trying to find her. Then all of a sudden Kassie and Malcolm saw the old man trying to help them look for Orie. Kassie went up to him and yelled in his face saying he shouldn't help them look for her he should just bring her back to the park. He quietly whispered to her no... She was really…

Minho sprinted across the street, taking a sharp turn into the darkened alley. The place stank of rot and decay. He pulled the hankerchief further up his face, attempting to block out the smell. It did little. "Let's get this shucking thing over with," he muttered darkly, and with a mirthless smile to accompany his hardened eyes. He walked out the other end of the alley and searched for a house labeled 42. Most of the houses were ransacked and burnt, the windows were boarded. Minho eventually…

"The year is two-thousand-six" That one simple sentence brings me back to my first grade class when I was only seven years old, where we said the date aloud every single day. The year 2006 sits as a blemish in my life however, as a memory that will not go away no matter how hard I try to forget it. The year marked many firsts for me, it was the year I board my first airplane, the year I lost my first tooth, and unfortunately, the all-too early loss of my childhood innocence. For my entire…

Francisco Ruiz, changed my life this year when I went to Mexico to see him for the last time. He’s my grandpa and got to see him several times during my childhood. He reached to 90 years of life. Lucky me I made it in time to see him before he past away. For me that was a great experience to go see him, I never thought I would see him again after almost five years since I had last seen him. Francisco is my mothers dad. Sadly my mom didn't get the chance to see him for one last time before he…