In the Air Tonight

could escape the disapproving gazes that seemed to endlessly pursue me. A few streets back I could hear the hoard of commuters fighting their way onto to the final train of the night, their yells piercing and horns blaring through the damp evening air. But the crowd meant nothing to me, I wasn’t a part of it, I never had been,…

We had been aching for some fun that week, however none of us had any ideas on what “kind” of fun we wanted. The week was quite stressful, due to many tests, assignments, and life in general, so we decided we needed a good “stress reliever” for the weekend. I guess just like every other teenager, my friends and I live for the weekend, because we started planning the event for that weekend around Monday of that week. We had finally decided that we were going to throw a party at Summer Martin’s…

sister be mistreated, she took Ben’s hand and began to run. Behind her, she could hear the man ordering his servants to chase Betty and Ben. “Benjamin, I want you to run as fast as you can.” “Momma I can’t run any faster,” Ben replied as he gasped for air. Betty stopped and used all of her strength to pick Benjamin up and hold him with a substantial grip. With the men on their tail, Betty knew this might be the…

(Second Staff Member standing on stage and First Staff Member walking towards him in a hurriedly manner.) [First] Staff Member: Where in the proximity of this diverse Earth is Potpan? That zipperhead that noob! He should be illuminating the fluorescent lights and scouring the gum off the undersides of tables from those vacuous and vexatious pesticides. Their ignorance makes me non compos mentis!! Ahem.. [Second] Staff Member: When intelligence is in the appendages of two geeks, it is not a…

As Chance secured the buggy, he watched Kat spread a blanket on the ground. She sat down, pressing her blue calico dress next to her ankles. Perhaps the mild April air reminded him of home, but somehow her simple action took him a lifetime away, to another woman, to another time, to memories he’d always hold dear to his heart. Thoughts of his own wife made him wonder how Jake had ever let Kat get away. The last two months had passed in a flurry. He had to admit, getting to know Kat and Abby made…

The crack of the rifles shooting into the air could only send me back. The volley of shots making me remember that day. I could only think if I made the right call that night. It was supposed to be a quick snatch and grab, but it all went wrong from the moment we left. I went up to give my respect to the men that were killed under my command. I could only see Kody’s face, the hazel eyes that showed no one was left behind them. Kody has been my right-hand since day one of Basic Training. He was a…

The American space program alone has developed countless technologies that have improved and saved lives. NASA has had over one thousand successful spin-offs that include: Lasik surgery, Tempurfoam, improved kidney dialysis and water purification systems, sensors to test for hazardous gases, energy-saving building materials, and fire-resistant fabrics. When the Hubble telescope was launched in 1990, a flaw in the design of its optics produced blurry images. Three years later NASA was able to…

Til Death Do Us Part Every night before I fall asleep I catch up on the news from my iphone. I start off with the happenings in the world and the national arena since it 's the most depressing followed by entertainment news because it 's just “head shaking-ly silly” and I wrap up with the happy optimistic articles on healthy living and your general “nurture yourself” stuff. I need to read it in this particular order to be able to cleanse my spirit of the tragedies I have a hard time…

When I woke up this morning I could not dream of what lay ahead. Actually perhaps I did, once upon a time. A hint of a memory was the prelude to the images that would be forever burned into my head. --- I woke up in the gym like I had every day for the past month. After the storm wreaked our home we were left with no choice. A hundred families packed into the middle school gym of Venice, Oregon. My mother and father were in the cots in the row before me, my aunt in the one next to mine. The…

on-loneliness-love-an peace/Sep5,2007.Web 25Feb.2014). In Cannery Row, Andy is lonelier than anyone else in the world. "The poison of loneliness and the gnawing envy of the unlonely" grips him (Steinbeck 1952: 457). Steinbeck opines that inherent loneliness leads to the emotional imbalance. "They's a time of change, an' when that comes, dyin' is a piece of all dyin', and bearin' is a piece of all bearin', an' bearin' an' dyin' is two pieces of the same thing. An' then things ain't so lonely…