In the Air Tonight

Sweetheart, Helen Keller once said, “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” Other than my devotion for you (pardon the corny introduction), I find this quote to also fit my love for my home and family. Looking back in time, part of me wonders if my tan skin is not from my father, but from the baking sun burning me to nut in the crop-fields and earth. I learned to fish before I learned to write. My feet knew the earth…

the left hand side and I was pushing so hard ready to score the first 2 points of the game. There were two girls from the opposing team in front and behind me so I didn’t have anywhere to go. I jump stopped and went up for the shot. As I was in the air, a girl from Ridgeway pushed me. I tried to land and catch myself but I just couldn’t. Next thing I felt was a sudden grind in my left knee, popping in and out, and I just dropped feeling the worst amount of pain I have ever had in my whole life.…

One night in Purple County, it was the beginning of something no one could imagine. The story begins on a stormy, cloudy night when Billy’s phone rang, “Hello, who is this?” he moaned half asleep, “This better not be a prank call, you little rascals are always trying to test me. I don’t want to buy anything goodb-” “No it’s me you silly bum, sorry I just have a lot going on right now. Can you come over to my house and talk, please, I really need to vent.” said Ally, his best friend. “Do you…

As Steven Pinker said, “With violence, as so with many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.” This demonstrates how human nature can both cause a problem and fix it.Schindler’s List showed that exact message as well. Oskar Schindler wanted to use all of the Jews as workers for him because he wanted to get rich. The Jews, in Schindler 's List were being killed and tortured by the Nazis, over time Oskar Schindler changed. He began to want to help as…

It was a normal, spring morning, in the eastern part of Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts, home of the annual Boston Marathon. Thousands of people were getting ready for the run, devoted to the sport and excited to get started. Justin Jones was getting ready to run his 1st ever marathon. He has been training for this for almost a year, and his wife was preparing him. Eating healthy, running his first ever 10k in March, only a month before the worst day of his life, April 15, 2013. Officer…

The only luminance came from the lamps distributed at even increments along the empty streets. Yet this didn’t inconvenience the people awake at this hour: the ones who avoid the light and welcome the shadows. The night was near pitch black and the shadows were plentiful. The sky’s light obscured by tall buildings and thick clouds; one could barely see their hand an arm’s length in front of their face. The buildings caused a labyrinth of alleys and side streets used by these shadow walkers, the…

218 Blenheim Road was a minacious husk of what once was a home. The family that had lived there last had long moved to Iowa or Wisconsin or some other boring Midwestern state. Nobody remembered who they were anyway. The house loomed above the sidewalk like a dried up animal skeleton. Its lifeless, shattered widows glared down at any passerby; as if the house itself was watching people walk past, noticing their steps getting just a little bit quicker once they entered its gloomy stretch of…

connection between any of the victims, and have you heard how gruesome it all is? It makes me sick. Me: Ry, you can’t worry about this. It’ll make you sick. People get what’s coming to them in the end. Me: Do you want to get everyone over tonight? We can watch silent movies and make our own words again. Ryan: Sure, who's texting, everybody? Me: I got it, no worries. I send a huge group chat to all the normal people: Alijah, the Twins: Michael and Josiah, Spencer, and Andy with…

Omitted Chapter Eight After my weird encounter with Snape, I decided to take it easy for a while. For the rest of the day, random people were walking up to me congratulating me about Snape. Some were even asking me if I could make them a love potion. I denied, of course, but I couldn 't help but admit the encouragements were quite nice. None of my other classes were eventful in the slightest though. Defence Against the Dark Arts with Professor Quirrel was quite boring, and he was- quite…

Porphyria’s mind raced as she laid in bed. The day ahead held exciting experiences and she was ready for her husband to wake up. Vincent was dreaming of the countryside, unaware of what the day meant to his wife. The countryside waited for him. Slowly, he began to get restless as he awoke. Porphyria could not pretend to be asleep any longer, so she got up from the bed. She was ready to begin the day. As Vincent laid in bed, she went into the next room. A smile played at Porphyria’s lips when…