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Kilcoyne was at it again. Acrya grew weary of the constant disputes between Kilcoyne and everyone that held an opinion. She overheard snippets of the conversation, but rarely had she interjected. It wasn’t interesting enough to keep her captivated nor did she think it was worth her time. Her head was propped up by her fist as she blew a few loose strands of hair from her face, and with the other hand she picked at the leftover vegetables on her plate. She glanced across the room, Dirge was…

Growing up I have always been competitive. I was the first to the dinner table, first to wake up in the morning, and even competitive enough to race and be the first to the car. When I started school at the age of five I became competitive in a whole new way. I strived to be the best in Academics and I succeeded. When third grade came around so many new opportunities were presented to me, and I made a choice that would forever my life. I joined a sport, a sport that even to this day would…

When I was about 12 years old i was in the middle school choir. We had our first concert in December, it was a christmas themed concert i was really excited because i had a solo in one of our songs. It made me so happy to have a solo in one of our concerts because it was a very big honor if you had a solo in our songs if the teacher picked you to do the solo. It was concert day we all wore christmas hats and i was right in the front of the choir.I was front and center for my solo. My solo was…

It was a Fourth of July and my neighbors and I shot off fireworks, before I knew it, I was racing inside to get the phone, my heart was pounding vigorously fast and hard, and I was already out of breath. I felt my hands tightly grasp around the house phone, my fingers struggling to dial 911. Then I heard a man on the other end of the phone asking what was incorrect and all I could say was “help there is a fire!” Then my fingers clicked the red button to end the call. My stomach filled with one…

Personal Truth Paper I was five. My mother was desperately trying to teach me how to skip rocks across water, and true to my uncoordinated tendencies, I was failing miserably. With great frustration, I decided to plop down on the grass and watch as she made five, six, seven skips on the surface of the water before the rock went plummeting down into the depths of the dark lake. Each little bounce of the stone rippled the water all the way to where my toes were resting in the cool waves. Such…

The pop was heard throughout the room. I began to fall to the ground as the pain echoed through my body. It was unlike anything I had ever felt before. It felt as if one hundred rubber bands had snapped within my knee. I could tell by the look on their faces that my coaches and teammates knew something was wrong. I went into practice that afternoon, on a typical Wednesday, and as a typical teenager; but little did I know, I would leave practice facing a six month recovery and a scar I would…

He stared down at the small pool of blood at his feet. The thick, red liquid cooling on his fingertips. The iron smell burnt his nostrils as his tears stung his eyes. He wiped them away furiously, streaking blood across his face. His father looked down at him with a scoff. “Let’s go, boy.” The young man lifted up the carcass of a deer, it’s body stained crimson. It was heavy, but he knew he could walk a few miles with it. He stood up, the deer hanging lifelessly around his neck. His father gave…

An accomplishment I had in my past was only have 5 loses on entire season of baseball last year. In years past we had been very bad. We worked our tails of every practice and during lifting we came back every year better than the last. Last year was so special because it was our last year together, we had been together for 5 years through thick and thin and in the past year we really got it together. I wasn't easy but we did it. It really shows when we slaughter teams who used to cream us,…

Derek had learned throughout the course of his life that it really didn't take much for a good day to turn into a bad day at the drop of a hat. He also knew that it was damn near impossible to salvage those days that suddenly go sour; that there isn't anything to do except try again the next day and hope for the best. Isaac and him have had their fair share of days of that sort and Derek could almost feel when one was coming on. They usually start off with something along the lines of Isaac…

The Pritzker Passion Prize evoked many emotions for me because my mom passed away just months after being diagnosed with cancer. Experiences like these serve as reminders to not take time on this world for granted and to use every chance possible to pursue passions. No one knows how long their life will last, so finding what means the most to you and going after it is of great importance. In the last letter my mom wrote me, she said her wish was for me to be happy. I live every day with this in…