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rouses me. The plane is jolting around as rain pounds against the windows like bullets. Me and Aviva tightly grasp each other's arms. Outside my small window I see nothing but swirls of gray and black chaos as a flash of lightning arcs across the sky. The sky that was once a cloudy, smoky gray is now dangerous. A deep rumble of thunder makes me jump. I see nervous glances exchanged around me as the lights buzz and flicker. The sound of voices around me climbs higher as panic rises.The soothing…

It gets stupidly hot in Danielsville, Louisiana, especially around summer. This would be fine I guess if we had something to do, to keep our mind off of the heat but there isn’t anything to do. Danielsville, Louisiana has three churches (Pentecostal), twice as many bars, one high school and no books stores or libraries. This means you’re either too drunk to read, or too Christian to read anything good. Big enough to have a mayor’s house, but not big enough to be on any map of any kind, it’s the…

the forest. It started to rain, then, lightning quick, thunder roared across the sky and lightning struck below almost touching the ground. On the way home it suddenly, was pitch black outside I could not see anything but shadows of the trees. Then, I started to run home, I tripped over a stick and fell to the ground I got struck by lightning as I was lying there in pain. The next morning, the sun was out, the sky was blue everything was ok until I looked in the mirror. Terrified at what I…

Winter, two years after graduation. It’s a shame that I’m sitting in my apartment doing absolutely nothing. Maybe I’ll paint. But then again, I’m feeling very drowsy. It’s only 4 P.M. Must be the rain. Suddenly, my stomach starts to growl. I haven’t been grocery shopping yet so I guess I’ll make a PB&J sandwich. I turned on the stereo and ate. After I finished eating, I turned the stereo off, went into my room, and got some shut-eye. I jolted awake to the sound of my phone ringing. I looked at…

Sunsets play a huge role in The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. They are mentioned throughout the book as a symbol that nothing good can stay, which is learned quickly by the greasers in their epic battle to remain superior to the socs. During the story sunsets are mentioned multiple times and each time portray a different or meaning to the characters. As the plot of the novel continues, the sunset show how the gang lives their lives. A sunset is defined in the dictionary as “the time in the evening…

CHAPTER THREE A Hot Knife through Butter I slip through the glass like a hot knife through butter and I was back in Sirethiel. Although as I stood I thought it was strange, I hadn't been gone that long, but I don't even recognize the place. It was like I was on the surface of the moon. Maybe this wasn't the kingdom. Maybe I was someplace else, another ancient distant world, far away. I looked around and didn't see any trees, bushes, or water. The place was silent, cold and dark. As I walked I…

steep curve of a roller coaster. Imagine that warm fuzzy feeling generated by thinking about someone or something you love. The combination of adrenaline, and that expanding feeling in the tummy, is what I experience when I look up at the clear night sky; a paradox of unity and loneliness. My favorite example of this sensation is one of the many mystifying, alluring pictures of our universe taken by the Hubble telescope. Though an inevitable sense of charm is often the desired outcome of…

“Yeah, a dust cloud formed when the asteroid hit, rendering one of my eyes useless,” Amanda explains. Now I climb out of my bunker and take a look outside. All I see is the vast emptiness and the darkness. The flashlight is the only form of light I can clearly see. “Can we go find one of my friends,” I ask. “I don’t know. A lot of the bunkers are gone on the east side of town are gone and I’m pretty sure everyone there is dead too,” Bruce says, “That means if your pal is there, then we oughta…

One humid morning in April as the gray sky threatens to pour down again, two sisters set out together. They have just begun to cross the street when they first see it. The younger of them points, though the thing has already caught her sister's attention. "Look!" It is stiff and flattened on the road, ripped open grotesquely for all to see. Ants have started to form scurried lines around it, eager to taste the flesh. A few flies disperse as the girls move closer to the object. They exchange no…

in the sky, but it did not stay for long. The next thing I knew, the delicate kite collapsed down onto the ground after the umpteenth time that afternoon. But this did not discourage me because I knew wind was something not possible for me to control. Picking up the kite, I threw it back up into the air, secretly praying it would linger for just a few moments more than the last. There were only a few days similar to these, when gusts of wind were frequent enough to keep our kites in the sky for…