2008 albums

“DON’T YOU SHRUG AT ME LIKE THAT!” The former college basketball coach growled. His face was red with pure anger. I saw microscopic beads of sweat on his almost-bald forehead. I stared blankly at him having second thoughts about my decision. It was a Tuesday, after school, during a chilly afternoon in the hump between Winter and Fall. My basketball career had been an up-and-down experience with a single mediocre team, the Warriors. I fit right in the team and everything was perfect... almost. I…

Would you go on an adventure with someone who enters your bedroom window at dawn? Goody two shoes, senior, Quentin Jacobsen wouldn’t have even dreamt about it. Until, a childhood friend and lifelong crush of his Margo Roth Spiegelman arrives through his window asking for his help. He accompanies Margo on one of her many mysterious adventures. Margo forces Quentin step outside of his box on this adventure. She makes Quentin do things that are illegal and could get him in big trouble. He skips…

It’s a Surprise “Yes, it’s true, why would I lie? Especially about this?” “You really called a dwaven lord ‘Harder’ instead of ‘Hargar’ for an entire council meeting?” You couldn’t get your head around the face that an especially important dwarf such as Thorin Oakenshield could have a regal mishap. “It sounded like it, what can I say? Now, I regret telling you this. Though I should have realized my mistake sooner than I did at the time, because my father kept laughing at me the whole time and…

body wants to collapse. Part of me wants to call for help, but I can’t form the words in my mouth, my body is giving in to the fear and hallucinations and I went on the ground. The world is warping and glowing around me, as if I were drugged. I was trying my hardest to crawl away from the library, still hearing the muffled screams of the victims as if they were right behind me. I’m making my way to the grassy spot where me and my friends used to sit every lunch period. I could see them,…

When i was 12 i went to the gravel pit with my dad to go shoot some exploding targets he bought. Me, my brother, my dad and grandpa were there to shoot a few targets for fun. First we put a target in a tree but behind the tree we didnt know there was a trail there. My dad shot the regular target first and a few minutes later somebody showed up there. This guy said that there were bullets flying past his truck and he told us were the gravel pit was so we drove there. There was a whole…

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…