Can't Help Falling in Love

telling the person you love that you might never see them again. Being sold was not like going off to war, it was nothing like a white person could understand. Being sold was becoming someone else’s property, like a new horse or cow that they can brand and whip, that they can mold into a new version of yourself, more obedient, more worked, more scarred. I never expected my daughter to look up at me from the bed and not know what to say, for once in her bright life. “Papa, you can’t leave us.…

Marriage is a significant event in one’s life; it is a right that individuals have to express their love and commitment to one another. Having a strong connection with someone they hold dear to their heart is an incredible feeling. The ability to speak with someone, and knowing that that person has their best interest at heart, is a treasured aspect of life. Having a relationship that is so deep and passionate can bring a person insurmountable happiness. Creating a bond in which a couple not…

times, people will be quoted to cite love as the major element giving them strength to withstand trials and challenges in life. However, when love becomes tragic, people are forced to alternative sources of inspiration in their lives. This in turn affects how they relate to people and…

Greenberg, a leader in the commercial advertising industry, suggested for keeping advertisements fresh and interesting: make the advertisement the entertainment. The commercial is heart-warming as well as a tearjerker. Extra’s commercial follows the love story of two high school sweethearts, Sarah and Juan, through many different emotional times in their relationship together. The commercial shows Sarah and Juan from the first time they met, all the way up until Juan proposes to Sarah. The…

loved one is the hardest experience they will ever endure. In the poem “The Prediction” by Mark Strand, the speaker states: the future came to her: rain falling on her husband's grave, rain falling on the lawns of her children, her own mouth filling with cold air, strangers moving into her house. (5-8) Strand uses the visual imagery of rain falling on a woman’s husband’s grieve to illustrate death’s effects on a woman as she confronts the end of human existence. Strand suggests that women are…

Rescue is the second book in my Mystery Angel Romance series. Each stand-alone love story in the series has an angel hidden in the plot. The angel's identity is not revealed until the finale unless the reader figures it out first. In Angel to the Rescue, Child psychologist Rachel Kelly isn't sure how to handle the situation with her newest client -- a six-year-old boy who says he can talk to angels and one is coming to help Rachel. She already has her hands full of trouble this Christmas…

that he doesn’t show the world. She desperately wants to be “the girl” that changes him and makes him fall in love with her. Unfortunately, she is blinded by her love that she can’t see that he doesn’t feel the same way that she feels for him. She completely believes that if she gives him everything he wants and has her whole life revolve around him, then he will return the favor and love her back. In reality, her dependency just makes it easier for John to use her, because he knows that she…

have tried many sports, including tennis, swimming, and taekwondo. If all the sports I have tried were stickers, all except one eventually fell off. That one sticker is soccer. At first, I was constantly trying to press it back on when it started falling, but now it seems to stay on by itself. Nowadays, I play and train as much as possible, and I do so with a positive mindset, wherever I am playing. I play for a club team called Sycamore Premier, and since it is connected to my school I can…

Falling Back Into Old Patterns I am the youngest of four. My household consists of my parents, two brothers and one sister. From the outside, we looked like a nice, normal family. But like many we had our problems. Coming from a family where it is frowned upon to talk about your troubles. We certainly had our fair share from money problems, job loss, and an unhealthy marriage, etc. As time went on the house get emptier with my brother and sister heading off to college. But the attitudes and…

Louis knows how much the Sun Prince loves the pain, relishing the fact at how much of a naughty harlot his young lover is. “Okay,” Harry says with a nod, brows furrowed. Louis captures the younger boy’s lips then, kissing him roughly and scratching down the length of Harry’s thighs at the same time. His nails are short but he’s pressing down hard, really making it count, hoping to maybe even draw a few droplets of blood, knowing how much Harry loves the pain. Harry’s mouth is so soft compared…