Light Years

The sand slides through my toes as I take my first step onto the beach. The beautiful, glowing sun rises slowly over me, bringing a gleaming light to the beautiful sand and sea. Its glittering, golden rays of heat warms me from the cool coastal breeze which hits my face.Walking further and further I heard the lost cries of the sulking gulls and the echoes of laughter as people walked passed. One step at a time I knew I was getting closer to the end. My stomach rumbled for Maccas, Finally I saw…

water in my grandfathers boat. "Come on sleepyhead, don't forget the early bird catches the worm," my grandmother called out. I'd holler back, "I'm awake," even though I never understood what a worm or a bird had to do with anything. I was eleven years old and had so much of life figured out, and it wasn't until I was thirteen that I realized I was just a dumb kid then. But I supposed that suddenly realizing how naive you once were happened to most people so I wasn't too embarrassed by it. That…

Picture yourself in a desert. You are alone, left to your own thoughts and the sound of the wind blowing in your ears. I can close my eyes and experience this very feeling of lonesomeness and solidarity. Christina's World by Andrew Wyeth causes me to experience these feelings when I am left to myself to study the painting. Upon first look, one is immediately drawn into the girl, laying almost limp on the ground. One might wonder if she chooses to be this way or if it is due to a medical…

My ears were popping and I was starting to feel light headed as we climbed higher and higher toward Red Rocks Amphitheater. Red Rocks is right outside the edge of the hipster, pot smoking, mile high city Denver. I was going to see the dirty rocking, alternative, up in coming band Cage the Elephant. When you are first entering Red Rocks park everything drastically changes. The sky starts to turn a darker more vivid blue as everything else turns a tint of red form the dust. The mountains around…

It was a brisk.. and breezy evening struck by twilight's magic in the evergreen forest of Kysland; the country of the enchanted forests of this strange... yet intimidating world. The twilight's moon glistened like a pearl in the sky's violet atmosphere. The shimmering and glistering stars looked like still snowflakes when a few dropped around Keira's feet. She smiled with a look of bliss, alone to herself as the other children hopped and played without a care in the world.. A moment they should…

Dove was woken up by the usuall insults from Johnny tremain. He thought to himself ''I wish I would never see him again". After repeatedly ignoring Johnny, Dove finally arose from his bed. While Johnny was not looking Dove swung one of his enormous feet attempting to trip him. After sarcastically apologizing Dove went to fetch water for breakfast. Along the way he thought " I wish I could be friends with Johnny", returning with a pail of water the boys went in for breakfast. purposely…

effects cannot be overemphasized. There is a significant damage to surrounding normal brain parenchyma following radiation therapy, which is usually grouped as adverse radiation effects (AREs) (26-28). The incidence of AREs after SRS is low with a 1-year cumulative incidence of 13%-14% in the literature (29). In a heterogeneous group of SRS-treated cerebral metastases, the incidence of RN ranged between 1.4% and 24% (30-32). The huge variation in the incidence of AREs can be attributed to widely…

“Where am I at?” I asked. I had no clue where I was, I didn’t know what time of day it was or what day it was. All I know is that there was a little bit of sunlight coming through a crack in a wall. There were lots of walls it kinda looked like a maze, it smelled really bad, and it was freezing. I had no clue what happened. Then I got a random flashback. I was in my room and I heard my mom yell “HIDE!” After I heard her yell hide I ran into my hiding place that I go into to read and get away…

I woke up in my bed cold and wondering what time it is in Dzerzhinsky. I get up out of my hard bed aching. And then I realize that today is the day that I meet up with my best friend that I meet in school, Kseniya. I put on my best clothing and get my old raggedy bag and put a few things in it like some of food, some extra clothing, and some money. For a few minutes I walked around saying goodbye to everything knowing I would never come back and remembering all the memories I had around here.…

Cold. Biting cold, whipping under my growling stomach, sinking into my six fingers, lifting the meager cape from my back and pentrating my core. I slowly, desprately crawled to a tree trunk and collapsed against it. I was too exhausted to go any further. So cold… So this was what the great Mewtwo’s come to, a voice in my head whispered. It had been there since I’d killed Ash. Hiding next to trees. In the forest. Next thing you know, a human’s going to come and pick you up and take you home and…