Pacing back and forth, I pondered how our volleyball fundraiser was going to stay afloat. The council was distraught, unable to acquire more teams, with the tournament in two days. With our advisors and the vice principal leaning towards canceling the event, my council had two choices: get eight more teams to sign up or call off the event. I didn’t want to cancel because I knew that as Junior and Senior year approached, we needed more money to fund our proms and class trips.…
I was shaking up and down then, I had woke up so scared. I looked around my room to find it had went up in flames!!!! All I could see was fire. I could feel the heat upon my skin. I was crying so much it could’ve been a waterfall.…
The speaker from PreMedical Ms.Schnarre, I was not interested in any of the things that this major had to offer. I have never been interested in PreMedical. Will probably not want to pursue any kind of job in this of work. Even though the opportunities seem interesting, the money was with my interest. I would not want to take a different direction that I am already headed.…
I just want to lay here and snuggle my scratchy sheets and fluffy pillow, something that would comfort me. I could still feel the heat of the fire on my skin, and see the flames wherever I looked, I could still smell the smoke, and I could still hear the screams of the fire and the ones caused by them. But, I have to do something, even if I just walk down to the food place, it’s still something. I forced myself out of my bed, still wearing the clothes from yesterday, laced with soot ashes. In the lighting of the lobby you wouldn’t have noticed, but know you couldn’t not see it.…
Life Without Action As an infant, Ana Arias was born with a defective knee. Her knee would always pop out randomly or sometimes on purpose. Ana's knee never fully developed. When I asked her, "Why did it do that?…
Other branches were lying around me on fire, and autumn colored leaves were floating gently to the ground smoking and smoldering. Stretching out from the base of the burning tree where the lightning had struck now stood a fissure cleaved opened several feet wide and billowing steam—Red fires glowing from down deep within. Abellona lay prone about fifteen yards away from me, but I could see that she was beginning to move and come around. I sat upright and watched her as I struggled to catch my breath, my breathing heavy and belabored from my…
I look down to meet the eyes of my granddaughter who is laying on my lap. We approach a fire. A large fire. I feel the heat and look into its flames. A fire, just as deadly as those bullets that covered the sky all those years ago.…
I did so very eagerly, and cautiously for I knew nothing concerning the owner of this fire. It mattered not I finally told myself as I watched the fire dance on the ashes of that wood. I sat down and for a matter of hours I watched the fire burn and then turn cold as its life faded. About five hours after the Royal blazing had come to an end I snapped out of my trance, only to find…
Iclesias Phanord Breaking the Norm I’m surrounded by bouncing basketball and expectations. I had not yet found my vocation. However, many people around me had; whether it was basketball, cheerleading, or track - they had found a purpose that drove them. I did not have anything that I was truly passionate about but when I began playing volleyball, I discovered it and I fell in love with the intensity that came when I touched a volleyball.…
During the hike I thought a lot about my summer reading, but sadly it didn't help me face the monster... During July of 2015 I was reading Into Thin Air while driving down south. While there, my family went on a hike that was on a smaller scale of Everest, but still gave me many lessons to take away from it. It was a short but scenic drive from the place we were staying to the long, treacherous trail. My brother and I started walking at a faster pace than our parents so we arrived at the first obstacle before our parents.…
The flames lingered still for a short moment then completely disappeared. Alone in the darkness, I wished that time will return, but it was already too late. The night passed by, with only one line of words kept on appearing in my head: This is where you…
A few years ago I remember walking home from school. Mind you I thought I was very handsome back in those days, I had soft, dark brown hair, I went to the gym every day, I was fit and healthy, personally I thought I was a ladies man and I still am (I think). Anyways, I was almost home…
Burning to ash. Though I stood so far away from it, the fire burned my eyes. I never thought I would meet him – not at my age of twelve. And I never knew that he would come that fast and so close. But now, he was here, stealing lights away.…
When growing up, just about every child has some grandiose yet profoundly naïve dream for themselves, be it an astronaut, cowboy, the president, or even the regional manager of a gas station. I, of course, was no exception to this rule; much to my mother’s disappointment, my dream was to be a rock star. The idea of being on stage wowing crowds of people thrilled me immensely; however, even as a child, I understood this dream of mine to be incredibly unlikely, which made my moment of playing a shredding bass solo in front of an astonishing crowd of no more than thirty people all the more monumental. This dream remained dormant until 3 friends and I decided to form a band when we were in middle school.…
This new place is so strange. The space is so tight; it’s damp and cold. The smell is strong cross between the smell of the oil of the ship and body odor of my fellow shipmates. The sound is almost complete silence besides a few whispers, among families. This path though sure is very uncertain.…