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…
December 24th. Present day. As MADISON KNIGHT contemplates Christmas in the Colorado Rocky Mountains, she’s dead broke, and eviction looms. Her only chance to pay her bills rests on the New Year’s bonus from Once Again Antiques—if she can hold onto her consulting job for that long. One more misstep, one more unsatisfied customer, and she’ll be looking for employment elsewhere. While working from home, she takes a call from ZACH MURDOCK, a local rancher. Through a mix-up, the antique store…
Money money money. Everybody loves money, right? They say money can’t buy happiness, well, in some cases money can be a big game changer and gambling is a fast easy way to obtain it, or lose it. “Gambling, the betting or staking of something of value, with consciousness of risk and hope of gain, on the outcome of a game” ( “Gambling”). All people need to do is pull a lever, bet on a crazy play in a game, or go all in. But sadly gambling tricks and plays people into thinking that they can win a…
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…
I won’t say my story is unlike any other. I won’t that I’ve been to the ends of the earth to fight for my honor. I can’t say that my family abandoned me on the steps of an orphanage, or that I never felt love. Those things would be the makings of a really heartwarming story. But, it wouldn’t be my own. Despite never experiencing those things, I am no longer ashamed or scared of what I can say, I’ve seen seen the face of true evil. I went into my freshman year hopeful. I was at a different…
She got out of bed, and started to dress. Usually by now, Niall or Louis would be up with her breakfast. She wondered if they had been running late. Her mind raced with thoughts of Harry, and last night. The sweet caresses, the steamy kisses, and the love that bonded them together forever. She couldn’t wait to be with him tonight. After dressing, she looked outside of her bedroom door. The house was silent, and that is when the panic started to seep through her veins. Her eyes widened as she…