Easter Bunny

But he’s not playing for the money, the spare change he’s made in the past hour won’t support him and he doesn’t expect it to. He just enjoys playing for others and if people feel like tipping him for it, then he won’t object. After a good hour of playing, his attention strays from the cords and on to a family about twenty feet in front of him. There’s a man, probably in his late twenties, a woman around the same age and a child having a picnic. All his old dreams for a family of his own come…

If each person had a good childhood, how different could the world be? Over the course of an average person’s life, childhood only takes up a small portion of time and memories. Yet it can be so crucial that a person has good experiences and memories from this time in their young lives. Mental health and stability later in life depend greatly on what a person experiences during their formative years. The novel, It by Stephen King, is a psychological thriller that exploits the idea that…

“‘At our age, it’s more complicated for the rebels. So they use stronger stuff, like drugs or money, to bait us and to make us march…I remember the attack on Njola-Kombouya village, in the south of Sierra Leone. They made us wake up at 1 in the morning and we marched until 7. A doctor came. He had a small bowl of cold water, and, every two injections, he rinsed his needle in the water. It was always a small vial with red liquid. At first, I constantly felt weak and then after, I had a sense of…

“Hey, Hayley, you should stop now. You have been punching the bag for 6 hours. You shouldn’t be so hard on yourself,” Ricky told me. I did not really care what he said and kept punching the bag. “HAYLEY” Ricky yelled. “WHAT” I stopped what I was doing and yelled back. “Finally you listen,” he said with annoyance “I know being the new leader of the Black Knights is going to be tough. Even though you’re 17, you’re not the only young leaders and without parents all the other gangs have lots…