Banshee

It was old the date was a week before Charlotte's suicide, it said he had schizophrenia. He drops to his knees in shock that is when he sees something that resembles a banshee from old children stories, it was muttering something about severed bonds. It then floats into his daughter’s room. He follows it into his daughter’s room everything in the room is pink and white it makes feel happy and relived that he wasn’t face…

Along with these historical moments being adjusted to better fit a narrative, Carey’s incorporation of magical realism compels the narrative to drift further from being a fact-based to more of a folkloric piece. These elements include the banshee, rat catcher, and a magnificent horseman who appears as a “wraith-like boy” (Clancy 175). The newspaper articles from The Jerilderie Gazette and The Morning Chronicle are also used to show the subjectivity experienced by Ned Kelly. In an interview with…

Eventually he asked if he wanted to be one with me and before I could reach out my hand my mother came in and screamed so loud even he covered his ears and the window broke, but I was fine. I could feel my mother from the day I was born I knew she was a banshee. She grabbed me and ran because she was tired of the reuniting he was trying to have. * * * * * My mama and daddy pulled me out of kindergarten because of the incident I had with a students trying to bully me. My mother felt something…

funeral, which he deserved. It was lovely and certainly grandiose as well, although my memory cannot accurately recall the details. I watched it through tear flooded eyes while all the sounds of the surrounding world made mute and muffled by my banshee-like wailing. How we would be able to live without him was a mystery to me; he was the only family I had and known my entire…

The View Of Others Strengths I asked three of my closest family members to gibe me their honest opinions of the strengths that I possess. My aunt Julie, my uncle rusty and my cousin Ethan have been there for me through thick and thin. If I need some guidance I have always found solace in them they are never afraid to guide me, steer me back on the straight and narrow or just listen to me when I need to talk. My aunt feels one of my biggest strengths is the fact I am good with…

them during this time. If someone in your family requests "evidence" of your period (this apparently happened to a girl on here last year), make a joke about how strange that is and possibly haram. If they start to harass you, go nuts. Release the banshee within you. Seriously, don 't let them control you 100%. No matter the consequences, unless your from a religious country with religious parents.... Faking an illness Make it realistic if you are going to fake an illness. You could go in deep…

Once upon a time, in a land far, far away a magical princess was born to the king and queen of a wonderful kingdom of the coast of the Arabian sea. Ha-ha, I wish my story started like that. A more accurate version would be: once upon a time, in a land far, far away, a baby girl was born to Shubhada and Prashant Sarambale of Maharashtra, India. We lived in a___. After two years, my dad acquired a new job in the USA so in April, 2002, the three of us moved to New Jersey. After a year, my parents…

“Howl” by Allen Ginsberg: Holy! Holy! Holy! Once in a great while, a poem comes along, that has so many hidden meanings you get lost in the spaces. There are an abundant amount of ways to interpret Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl.” To me, “Howl” depicts the five stages of loss and grief in an attempt to deal with Ginsberg’s emotional fallout from the loss of his friends. In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler defined the five stages of loss and grief as 1.) Denial, 2.) Anger, 3.) Bargaining, 4)…

An Exercise in Embarrassment A few years ago, over Spring break I went on a week-long vacation to Washington DC with my family. This included, my mother, father, sister and my mother’s sister and brother along with their respective families. Over a period of four days we walked over sixty miles and I got to visit some of the most extraordinary places I could ever imagine. Standing at the proverbial head of the table was the Lincoln Memorial, a magnificent cross section of history and reverence…

Like a bird leaving the nest for the first time, Carolyn Witucky left her home in Ohio when she was 18 years old. She went to live with her husband, who had joined the army and was stationed in Texas, halfway across the country. They had a child and wished to return home. Two teenagers now had to make their way across the country with an infant. Carolyn thought she was ready to take on the world, but she was woefully unprepared. Kim was just six weeks old. She was my precious little pearl and…