ARIA Charts

We had been attempting it for months. We never thought that we would get far at all. The only thing that I knew was that it was going to be tough, tougher than finding a string of hay in a stack of needles. I had the entire match set up. Every player was ready, I made sure all our internet signals were wired in correctly and would not disconnect. It was all perfect, or at least the plan was. It happened a few months ago when the school had a day off in the middle of the week. My friend Marc…

Anyone that has known me as a toddler would say that I was a daddy’s girl. There was no doubt about it. When I was little, my dad was my world. There was literally no one who could ever be as great as my dad. I never put really thought about how he would only show up once a week or just a little over month. But that didn’t stop me from waiting by the door every day or night for him. I believed his mediocre lies even if I knew they were lies because in my eyes, my dad was a super hero that would…

I sat there, in the deep snow, drawing my sound map. My eyes were closed, using my every ounce of strength to listen for even the smallest sounds. The whispering trees melodic wind, the creaking ice which covered so much of the winding river that ran through the riparian area on my map. When I was done, I laid down, acknowledging nature 's picturesque sky and landscape. The beautiful baby blue sky enveloped me with it’s gentle appeal while the tops of Aspen trees forced it’s barren branches into…

Only One I Know As Sonny Lancaster looked at the blank road ahead of himself, his mind continued to wander its way back to the sign. The road sign, directly above the La Rue’s Restaurant slogan, that read “Find the Lord before you need Him, and never, ever sell out your pride or saddle. Cause life's a long, long ride.” He couldn't help but think that he’s 51 years into his ride and still chasing a wild dream some call rodeo. He chuckled at the thought but deep down he was sorta proud to still…

The first threat came over the phone when there were suspicions of Minnijean going to Central High School. I walked over to the phone in the kitchen. A deep voice, a man’s voice came on. “If anyone in your family comes to that school, I’ll come to your house myself, and shoot all of you“, I ended the call, and stood there for a couple minutes, stunned by what just happened. And ran to mom and dad’s room. “Um, m-mom. We got a phone call “, I stuttered. “I’ll be there in one second honey.“ she…

Becoming what I hate seems to be a major trait of mine. It seems like everything that I say I don’t like, later on I’ll want to do it, get it or be it. I wouldn’t say that I hate what I want to be because they help people, but I’m not a big fan on visiting them. I want to be a pediatrician, but I hate going to see mine. The doctor is kind of scary to me because nothing good seems to happen whenever I see one and I’m only saying that because half the time I end up getting a shot. I know that…

I stood looking through the dirty windows of the train station. The smell of trashcans and wet wood lingered in the dusty air of the old building. I tried to wait outside for her, but was quickly stopped by one of the conductors, he made sure to inform me that I couldn’t be on the platform until the train came to a complete stop. I was there to pick up a girl that I would meet for the first time. I never would have thought that my little ghost hunting zine could make it over three hundred…

As Tameka watches the news, she is upset at the starkness and plainness of the children’s hospital rooms at her local hospital. With the idea to bring color into the children’s lives, she starts Project Pillowcase. Junior Tameka Judson and her friends have started Project Pillowcase, a project designed to create colorful pillowcases for children at the hospital. The project started after Tameka watched the news over winter break and was inspired to help the children in the hospital. After the…

My boyfriend Brant is no cow, so it’s very easy to push him over. Brant’s “pushover” ways are because of his lose/win paradigm. There are many paradigms of interactions and everybody has displayed them all before, but Brant loves to practice the lose/win paradigm the most. A lose/win paradigm is an interaction where Brant loses in his favor while the other person gets their way and wins. Whether he is interacting with me, his teachers, his friends or even his own sister, a lot of the time he…

I immediately ran to the West side of town. I urgently knocked on the door of Cherry’s house until Cherry opened it. ‘’We’re going to rumble, right?’’ she asked. I nodded my head. We ran as fast as we could to get to the vacant lot. When we go there, we saw Darry and Paul, the high school buddy of Darry, doing the same thing as they did the last rumble. They were circling around one another. To get the attention of the Socs and Greasers, I screamed at the top of my lungs. ‘’Dally’s dead!…