Family room

stars. They burn fast and bright, then for no real reason, or for reasons we can’t understand, fade forever. They say space might be infinite but that means infinite stars, too, if you think about it. Some have to collide. Some have to burn out to make room for the next. It’s freshman year and my mom helps me move cross-state from Colorado to Nebraska, unload my stuff in giant rolling laundry carts into McGloin Hall, my home for the next nine months. McGloin is supposed to be just for…

coming up and congratulating us all the time since he was part of the royal family. And now I was too. ¨Sure¨ he agreed.…

don’t even know what they are for, but the one thing I know is that they avoid me from getting ill. I onced tried to avoid consuming those pills but the nurse suddenly caught me jamming them between my mattress and the base. She now never leaves the room until I show her the inside of my mouth to prove I have swallowed them. “Here,” an unusual looking nurse hands me a glass of water this time. She also handed me the pills one by one, unlike the other nurses who give them to me in one helping.…

monkey’s paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish” (Jacobs 277). And in that moment, the room suddenly became tranquil. It was as if none of the pandemonium - happening less than a second ago - had ever transpired. The living room transformed from a frightening and murky scene back into a run-of-the-mill living room, fit for any family. But the White’s were not just any family. Mr. White disregarded the fact that he had just wished death upon his own son and let out a…

burned instantly. I was most embarrassed since the whole class had witnessed my dilemma. That is who I was, evading every challenge because of diffidence. As the age of 13, I immigrated from China to America with my mom. I looked forward to my new family delightfully. However, the reality was on the contrary. My stepdad verbally abused me daily, and my mother got serious physical abuse from him. My mom went to…

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To enter, you have to pass a row of ambulances that are lined up in the front. The automatic door, that is wide enough to fit a car, opens to welcome its guests with a perfumed scent. Many guests attend with their families and some guests even attend with literal broken hearts, in an attempt to repair them. Walking through the corridors, you start to feel a headache from the lights above you that make the corridor too bright for your eyes. The corridor, filled with stale air, has an undertone…

It is definitely hard to walk through the living room without lingering by a window and being fascinated by the peaceful scenery of the yard. A wide path is filled with flagstone as well as interplanted with dymondia margaratae, and tiny yellow sedums. Standing out from the garden, a set of glossy silver…

I think that my dorm room is a representation of my front-stage behavior. This is the case because although it is my room, I share it with a friend, and although it is our room, we often have other people in it with us. Dorm rooms are a space in which friends can gather for a party, to study together, or even to watch this week’s episode of Grey’s Anatomy. It is more of a public space than a private space in which I can be alone. I keep my dorm room in a manner in which I would publically…

I am walking through the empty, dimly lit hallway of _______ High, as I have done a million times before. Passing endless room after room filled with rows of desks, where students meet to grasp all the knowledge they can. I press my hand up against the cold, blue metal lockers that are hugged tightly against the cream painted brick walls. The smell of damp and musty air, filling my nose with each inhale. I really don’t have any business being here today. Yes, I am a student, but as far as I’m…