Saving Face

“Set!” I hold my breath. Boom! Exploding from my block and gaining speed with every stride, I feel more and more air brush against my face. All the anxiety from crouching back in the blocks is released at once. I focus on my steps. If I can’t approach first hurdle in eight steps, I will stumble and lose momentum. After four or five steps of acceleration, I stand up tall to prepare for the jump. My strides shorten as I approach my eighth step. Last short stride! Now right knee up. Lean…

This piece of artwork is known as Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight Bodhisattvas, it was created by an unknown artist in the Medieval Period, around 1200-1250. This painting is 27 1/8 x 21 1/4 in. and made with distemper on cloth. Looking at this image, the first thing you notice is Amoghasiddhi. He is the focal point, which is depicted by the size of the figure in comparison to the other figures surrounding him. On each side of the Buddha we see the same amount of figures, this gives off a sense…

saw the face of Simon saying, ‘You’ll get back to where you came from.’ The boys wept in silence together and bent lowly on the floor, their tears mixing together in droplets on the floor, resembling the two boys finally united. Upon arrival of the cruiser on the Thames River, a group of worried parents were waiting at the port to see their long lost sons. The captain had telegraphed the port who notified the schools that the missing schoolboys were rescued. He saw familiar long lost faces…

remembered of that night before waking up in a partisan camp, in a cot inside a tent. The first face to greet me was him, Ben, he’d…

Allen Frances said it best when he said that normal is a variation of many things, not just one. Not only does he talk about normality but he takes different approaches to it. In chapter one he discusses how the world defines normal and what normal used to be. He also brings up the ideological difference between what philosophy says and what doctors say. This part to chapter one ties in a lot to chapter two’s part about shaman. Also, discussed in this book is what mental diseases are and how…

some thing dangerous will occur to you? Many people, including myself, have heard the legend of Bloody Mary as some men and women would call it the face in the reflect. The variant i've been told used to be that for those who go into a rest room in the dead of night with a lit candle and say the words “Bloody Mary” 3 to 100 times, you'll see her face. There are numerous possibilities that can occur while you upset Bloody Mary. It has been told that she is going to kill the person calling her,…

your day going man”, I replied “Fine” He then stared at me for a while and said “hey man what’s up with you, you seem bummed.” I didn’t want to cause suspicion so I replied with, “nothing, just stressed, that’s all.” He looked at me with a strange face and said, “Nah man, it just doesn’t seem like your stressed, you look…I don’t know… Sick”. What did he mean by this? Did I really look sick? I was confused but I needed to get rid of this guy so I said, “Listen man, I’m not discussing my personal…

The year is 3031… Except it’s not really 3031. In fact, it’s not really any year because the government decided that civilians knowing the year apparently gives us too much power. All records and calendars were ordered to be destroyed back in 2020. Back then, the Ancients tried to continue keeping track of the years and for decades they were successful. However, as the Ancients started dying out, their decedents cared less and less about the year. Now, only the top scientists and high ranked…

“Hello,” it growled. Hot salty tears were streaming down my face and I started to scream. It’s long fingers wrapped around my face, muffling my noise. Sobbing out of fear, I tried to pry them away. They were just too strong, I couldn’t do it, and I was trapped. I knew what was going to happen next. Death. It grabbed both my arms and started pulling…

of running I reached the the goat, weapon and armory. I melted a hole in the door with the hot torch I found on the ground. There was a security guard but, before he even knew what was happening I ran around the corner and I goat punched him in the face. (LIKE A BOSS). I was running as fast as I could I turned the corner and “whack” it was my best friend Charlie. I’d completely forgot about him since this morning. He was a chicken. I asked him where he had been the whole time. “Well I have been…