Pullin' Me Back

Mum was dying again. The priests and doctors thought she would die. She did, slipping into a coma and hemorrhaging. She looked peaceful, but her body was as cold as ice when I tried to wake her up, pounding on the corpse that was my beautiful mother. The three day funeral was a blur. All of it was a giant blur, like when you go on the tilt-a-whirl at the carnival and the world is a random streak of color and light. Nothing fully settled in until I was eight. I was home, Dad was out back. He was working hard to get our old pool ready so my cousins and I could have fun and splash around. I was crying, alone in my cold house, and slowly floated into the kitchen. I opened the knife drawer and let a knife hover in front of my abdomen. My hands immediately let go of the knife after I heard my dad marching up the wooden stairs, and I ran back into his room to watch T.…

we’ve got something to tell you”. That’s all that it took, those six words that came from my parent's mouths made me freeze on the spot, my blood filled with lead making it impossible to move. My heart dropped, my breathing deepened, and all hope seemed lost. This was all too similar to that day, the day where everything in my life turned into a silhouette; dark and lifeless. My fingers wouldn’t wrap around my paintbrush in its normal way, constantly shaking. I couldn’t work knowing that my mum…

Mom was small, a slight 110 pounds but through my eyes, she was large, even after my height surpassed hers. To this day, she would argue that she weighed only 100. Her strong presence claimed her space, and anyone else's that she cared to. Being right was of utmost importance to her, and she made sure always to have the last word. Overbearing, and overprotective of me, her only child, she usually controlled every situation, regardless of how trivial. I had always wished that she would…

took about three weeks for me to even fill comfortable sleeping in my own home. I became so jumpy and paranoid getting in and out my car until I just had to tell myself, enough is enough. I was no longer going to let some women make me afraid to live in my own home. It’s not like Michael had a key or anything. I stop by the health food store today and picked up some miso paste, portabella mushrooms, spring onions, shrimp, and seaweed to make me one of my favorite soups. This soup is ready to…

The horses hoof is hard but delicate part of a horses body, it must be treated carefully. If a horse has a long toe then it is more uncomfortable for them to walk. It is then more vital to disease. In this paper I will be explaining how important it is to keep a horses hoof healthy and strong. how a horses hoof works and how to prevent the most common hoof disease. To keep a horses hoof healthy and free from wall cracks you must feed your horse the correct feed and hay to insure a healthy…

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difference (or so I used to think). My child-hating first-grade teacher Ms. Gordon didn’t “get” me. So when I forget all about Leaf Day it’s dreadful. And trying to finish the assignment by skipping class only increases my negligence. However, When Ms. Gordon shows a little leniency and decides not to fail me it has a lasting impact on me and significantly changes my view of teachers, even the seemingly incompetent ones. Our teacher Ms. Gordon divides the class into three sections based on…

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Being raised in a strict four person family, I have always been told what to do, what not to do, and to not stray from the right path. “Focus on your future, Bethany,” my mom would always tell me, and so I did. Focusing constantly on grades and schoolwork, I dared myself to make time for a social life, and instead, I became quiet and shy. I remained shy to the public for years until one traumatic day during my seventh grade year. This particular experience single handedly changed my future by…