Peace Breaks Out

me being arrested and taken to the Polk County Jail. I learned that by making the right choices I will never end up taking two steps back again. It was almost midnight on a hot July weekend and my brothers and I were out past our curfew; and the only thing that’s out at that time of night is trouble. We were young and wild and used to doing…

As we finally got out of school, I met up with Jack and got on the bus. As we sat down in our regular seat, I asked Jack what the new Halo was like. “Well,” he said, ”It’s really awesome! The graphics are in 4k! They look so good! And, The story so far (I haven’t played much, so that we both don’t know what's going to happen) is amazing! It’s been thought out very well.” As Jack said all this, it only made my anticipation of the game grow…

are marching, I can see the faces full of grief, despair and depression as they're leaving in their columns and us entering in ours. We pass by silently. A few moments pass by and all I can hear is a ear piercing ringing noise and the earth crying out as we were being attacked. I was lost among all of the smoke when suddenly all I can feel is the earth against my face. I hear a faint, “Quick, up, Albert” coming from Paul about three feet away from me. His image was blurry with the smoke in the…

orchids above the frozen streets. A surprise. A decadence. A presence here across the miles. Lucinda Williams plays on the restaurant sound system, bringing up the tears again but making me remember that I need more Lucinda Williams in my life. Out the window, a forklift scoops loads of steaming asphalt from a dump truck and carts it away to parts unknown. Clouds of grey smoke rise up past my orchids and fade into the grey Minnesota sky. Late the following evening… At the Dakota Jazz…

-1- The Transformation I had a dream about turning into an animal the night before it all happened. The day before, my friend (Charley) and I had an encounter with The Wizard of Thepville. We destroyed him in a game of cards him and totally rubbed it in. He told us some sort of riddle like," You shall become thy goat and thy chicken, for then at first light you shall be transformed". Being the cool guy I am, I just said," pshhhh, whatever". And here I am the next morning with…

couldn't see a thing. I stretched my and yawned, however, it wasn't much of a yawn, but rather a roar. The roar shattered the windows and made the wooden beams buckle in the surrounding walls. At the time I wondered to myself, "did that come out of me?" I leapt out of bed, for I was gravely concerned and proceeded to clap my hands, however, the humming of the air conditioner echoed throughout the room. Now I was even more concerned, for it felt as if my arms had…

A law where some men are forced to use the woman’s restroom, and some women are forced to use the men’s restroom. A second law to further help in preventing men from raping women in the women’s restroom. These are not two separate laws, but the two differing opinions on Senate Bill 6. One would expect media outlets to choose the two sides equally, but in fact, these media outlets tend to be neutral towards, or against, Senate Bill 6; the reason being that media outlets are companies, and as…

Rosa, age 28. She’s living with her 30 year old husband, Mark, and her five year old son, Jason. One day the Davis family went to an abandon creek to have a picnic. As they walked down the stream water on a cold day in 1978 there were bubbles coming out of the water. “Mommy,” Jason said, “why is there a lady sleeping in the water?” At that moment they started to run. Jason dropped his favorite blanket in the water. “No!” Jason screamed emotionally. “My blanket!” As he ran down into the…

chat room and the person he agrees to met is a popular jock Kevin Land who is gay. Later Russel finds out that even one of his best friend is a bisexual and he learns about others students' sexuality. They form a club, but they don’t want to call it a Gay-Straight Alliance instead they come up with a club so boring no one would join, the “Geography Club”. The club is a place the teenagers can hang out and not be discovered or need to hide their truth self's. Hartinger had an interview with the…

Faded Mole. I tied the tired beast at a water trough in front of the place, I know he’s hungry, but that will have to wait till the morning. The smell of stale smoke and vomit almost made me change my mind about going in, but hunger and thirst won out. There were only a few people in the bar. Two men to the right of the door,…