All the Things She Said

Connie began to walk to the jalopy, the side with the 33,19,17 on it. “Well hell Ellie, this sweetheart isn’t a dope at all!”Arnold turned and exclaimed to the backseat passenger. Connie tried to take her mind off of what she was doing. The ground was shaky and she barely could walk straight. “What’s the secret code?” Connie asked, with a shakiness in her voice. Arnold shook his finger and smiled. “Let me open the door for my Connie” “I can get it” “No, sweetheart, I have it, I have it” While…

He was thinking about Calypso, obviously. He thought about the things he and Aphrodite had talked about a few days ago. Aphrodite slowly led him into the dining hall and then she sat down regally on one of the chairs. "Sit down," She said to him with a smile on her face. As Leo slowly sat down on the edge of one of the chairs, she ran her hand through her long auburn curls. "You know Leo, you and Calypso make a good couple." She looked at him an amused expression on her face. Leo hadn 't…

Williams. She was the born March 7th 1957. My mom was the seventh child of 18. She meet my father when she was 16 and married him and move to Coffeyville, Ks. One year later when my mom was seventeen I was conceived. During the time of my mom pregnancy my dad lost his oldest sister who raised him on his birthdate in 1975. My Aunt Clara was my mom favorite sister in-law and that’s when she knew what she was going to named me. My mom was a short petite seventeen year old young lady. She said she…

volunteer, Jill she describes her recovery like waking from a bad dream. She described that since she reached her recovery she now feels like she knows what happiness really is. She stated that when you are at the lowest point of your life, you believe that you will never feel good again, you are always going to be stuck that way. She stated with time and a lot of support she slowly began to feel better, she stated she started to want to do more, she felt energized. She stated it wasn’t easy,…

who randomly decided to go to the same coffee shop at the same time meet for the first time. The girl, not really paying attention to the flirting from the boy started to realize his interest when he asked how he could talk to her later. She being the shy soul she was gave him a way to contact her but explained that he doesn’t have to just because they happen to have mutual friends. Continued laughter and conversations happen until the boy and his friend decide they need to head home. With a…

The Dragon Amulet “This is unfair, unjust!” Michelle went on like this every day, although her rant was particularly long today. Michelle’s sister, Opal stared out the window as the fall leaves drifted across the small city. “Shh,” said Opal, “I’m reading about the Dragon Amulet. It’s a magical amulet. People say it has a mind of its own.” “That’s just a silly legend, Opal. Now let’s focus on reality. There’s a dragon taking over our city.” The dragon was mean and unpredictable, but the…

Frank once stated that, "In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart." These were the words she had written in her diary days right before she was captured and taken away to a concentration camp. Anne Frank was one of the many Jewish people who went into hiding during the Holocaust. Her family and the Van Daan's lived together in the Annex. They were all one-day captured and taken to concentration camps. The only one that survived was Otto Frank, Anne's father. Anne's…

family, and the struggles they all face. She remembers as a kid how they would have to move from apartment to apartment. But the one thing she could always rely on was her writing. Even if things are not going as planned, she could escape in her writing. Through living on Mango Street, Esperanza has created hr identity as a strong independent girl. Living in a low-income Latino neighborhood of Chicago, Esperanza's identity is shaped by the environment she grew up around. Everyone knows…

outside now. I did as he said and ran outside. I saw many strange things I had never seen before. Some of those things were many men and no women or children at all, something I believe one of the men called a horse but I’m not to sure and another thing one of the men called a gun. The gun was the scarriest thing I had ever seen because when the strange men stopped their horses one of them raised their gun in the air and made it make three very loud horrible sounds. He said something I did not…

We stood in line and the line was not moving. After some time we made it to the gate just in time, but was turned away because the man at the deck said they had already filled out seats! I said we are here on time and the security line was over an hour long he stated I will put you on the standby list for the next flight. As the lights came and went all day we did not get on a plane to New York. I had already prepaid for the hotel and tickets to events in New York that were nonrefundable. I…