The birds are singing outside, light beaming in through my blue curtains. I slowly open my eyes, blinking and trying to adjust to the harsh sunlight peeking through. I sit up on my bed with my rainbow-striped comforter wrapped around me. I can hear the creak of the shower knob turning in my brother’s bathroom and the sound of pans clattering in the kitchen. Everything is normal, except it isn’t. There’s no loud music blasting in my oldest brother’s bathroom. My mom is not furiously knocking on…
“Wake up,” Josie Said to me as she pulled the comforter off of my bed. “Five more minutes,” I slowly griped. “No, we have to get our bags packed, today's the day,” Said Josie. I got up, my bones aching worse than a two day old flu shot, and my head spinning quicker than a hurricane. Once I was ready to go downstairs, I picked up a blanket lying on the floor, I then wrapped it around my half naked body, and I walked out of my bedroom and headed down the stairs. When I go down the…
In 1921, Florence Cathcart, a notorious author and paranormal hoax exposer from London is invited to an elite boys boarding school in the countryside to investigate alleged sightings of a child ghost. Cathcart is an educated woman from a wealthy family who will disprove anyone who questions her professional credibility. Her investigation at the school uncovers a whole part of her past she did not know existed. Through The Awakening, we are exposed to gender portrayals and roles that are…