Blond

Cheyne grimaced. She was in a crowd of people but she felt like a rock in a stream, the water as a unit flowing around her. She was at the park, she had come to walk. She had stopped at the flessbe golf course. She had spoken to the guys playing, they gave her the once over and moved on. No hook ups day. Not that was what she wanted but no men seemed interested in relationships. She had given up on her grandmother’s saying about cows and milk. There was always free milk down the street…

“I’ll kill you,” he mutters, holding the gun closer to her temple. “Darling,” she begins with a hearty laugh. “I'm already dead.” Ezra pulled the mask farther over his face, already hating himself for what he was about to do. Despite his greatest protests, his wife convinced him he had to steal. Knowing no one as wise as his Lena, Ezra assumed she was right. I, as your narrator, though I’m not supposed to share my opinions, think he should have trusted his gut. However, that seldom make for a…

Why do blondes wear their hair up? To catch everything that goes over their head. A typical blonde joke is an example of a stereotype that all blondes are dumb. Webster defines a stereotype as “an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.” The stereotype of “dumb blonde” dates back to the 18th century from a French ballet dancer named Rosalie Duth. Today she would be compare as a blonde Kim Kardashian. For centuries,…

I never thought that anyone would miss me. Everybody only saw me on Sundays and nobody except maybe Olivia seriously considered me their best friend. I cut off all communication to my colleagues back at my old church. I waited for a call, an email, or anything that showed that they were thinking about me. I never thought that I would be the one hurting, that I would wake up each morning without the motivation to try to pursue anything but eating, school, and sleeping. What was the point anyway?…

“I FOUND IT!” Nicole burst into Zach’s apartment, waving a sheet of notebook paper. “Found what?” Zach sat up, his heart swelling at the thought of what she might say next. “The address, Zach, the address, it’s the paper factory!” Nicole shrieked and laughed, almost starting to dance around the room. “Holy- holy cow, Nicole!” Zach laughed. Nicole leapt at him and they grabbed each other into a hug. “Y-you aren’t joking?” “No!” Nicole was overcome with emotion. “We-we found her. We did it.”…

“What the fuck are you laughing at?!” My Mum comes stampeding in my room. She opens the door with such force that it almost flies off its hinges. At this point, whatever I was laughing at didn 't seem funny anymore. I wiped the tears away from my eyes to banish my blurred vision and regained eyesight, revealing a small yet frightening woman who resembled a bull that had seen red; she might as well have had hot steam coming out of her airways and been scraping away at my bedroom carpet with her…

My Migrant Idol Anthropologist Ellen Zimmerman There are certain people in this world that make you want to talk. Some people cause you to talk out of nervousness and need to impress them, while others have such a personality that you talk because you feel the ease in their attention and understanding. Ellen Zimmerman, a professor in Anthropology at Framingham State University, makes me want to tell her my life story, and then turn around and listen to hers. The first day I met Zimmerman she…

I hate going to stores. There 's too many people in stores. Which isn 't very comforting for me. I have this curse where I can hear what people are thinking of me. Only me. My mom calls it a "gift", but I don 't see it. Having to hear people call you a "slut" or a "loner" never really helps your self esteem. I try to blend in by dressing like all the girls in their slutty-ass outfits, but instead it just made guys notice me. And it didn 't help at all. I feel like no girl wants to be considered…

Change is inevitable, and it is a wave in a stormy ocean that can either bring a person down or lift them up. In Toni Morrison 's The Bluest Eye, the Breedlove family is dragged down by the constant reminder that they are not a beautiful family, and how they never will be. The standards of beauty corrupt the Breedlove family, causing Pauline to become insecure and take her insecurities out on her family; and Pecola 's friendships suffer, as well as her sanity from her many hardships.…

Golden rays of early morning sunshine poured through the glass windows and illuminated my dorm room. I look over to see my friend Andrew attempting to sleep in by pretending to ignore his painfully annoying phone alarm. “Andrew you need to get up and shut that thing off. It’s hardly 8 a.m. and I’m already getting a massive headache.” I nagged at him, “Andrew. Seriously. Now. Get up!” I ready my hand to deliver a perfect “five-star” smack onto his bare back but instead he turns around and faces…