The Bluest Eye

honest Olivia, I have some terrible news. Jessie was killed last night.” “Mama no!” she shouted into the phone, feeling her stomach tighten. Her mood plummeted from the tip of Mount Everest to the ground in seconds. “Oh nooo,” she repeated. Now, her eye-sight was turning blurry. This was one time she had wished her mother was lying. But she knew her mother well enough to know that she wouldn’t joke around with somebody’s life. She sat down in a leather chair inside of the waiting area at the…

amblyopia due to the drastic eyesight difference between my right-nearsighted and left-farsighted eye since birth. The doctor explained to my parents that my brain systematically ignored all images from the right eye which led to the corresponding brain area underdeveloped. His prognosis had a slight chance of visual restoration if I were to exercise my right eye persistently and adamantly to retain brain-eye connection. Not only that, underdeveloped brain eventually would negatively affect…

Image 1: This image is asymmetric because elements are offset from each other and making the painting unbalanced. The composition is affected by the offset of people in the painting and the visual effect can also affect the composition. The boat is not centered and there are more people on one side of the painting than the other which also makes it asymmetric. There are more cool colors used in this painting then there is warm. I see a couple things that are red and a few that are a light yellow…

He woke up with a start. Breathing heavily, he looked over at the empty dog bed beside him. "Miss ya, bud.." He'd sigh, closing his eyes as he flopped back onto his bed. It had been a year; no, it had been two years since he had lost his friend to the incident. Now, his life, his motivation; lost to the overwhelming darkness that consumed him, day by day. It wouldn't take much now for Odyssey to fly into a blinding rage at the next stupid thing he'd encounter.…

between the two is evident, and the speaker has similar feelings to Blue towards the end of the short story: and anger towards humans and their mistreatment of animals. Seeing this new Blue, the speaker had looked and saw, “... in Blue’s large brown eyes was a new look, more painful than the look of despair: the look of disgust with human beings”(Paragraph…

The edge of the gown rose until she had to rock her hips so she could lift it past her supple back side. "Sit up," she ordered, the slave girl instantly looking up to her Mistress. Her eyes roaming over her mistress as Inara lifted the gown up and over her head, only to drop it before the slave girl, "Come here," Inara commanded, one hand supporting her body as she leaned back, the other hand slipping between her thighs and stroking along…

I leap away from cold, fierce eyes set in a stony face. But for the blood drawing down dour lips, its’ chiseled features are indifferent to the hot rage in its’ eyes. I recoil, but my back slams hard against the dank crypt wall. I would rip my terrified stare from the creature, if I could and I know not to turn my back to the beast. I don’t have to look to know that my friend lies dead at the feet of the immortal. The monster had tossed Chris’s limp body aside, as if he were a slurped…

Have you ever dealt with dry, itchy eyes? They may sting, or feel gritty or overly sensitive. This is a common condition that affects as many as one in three people. Also known as keratitis sicca or xerophthalmia, dry eyes can result when tear fluid is produced too slowly or evaporates too quickly. While it’s common to ease discomfort in the obvious way — by adding more fluid to the eyes in the form of eye drops — it’s important to investigate what’s behind this seemingly simple, yet…

domain, frozen in place for an unknowable number of years, motionless, a dragon suddenly stirred at the approach of another. Eyes, having not seen for years, begin to crack open; scales, fused together by the unforgiving cold of ice, begin to shift; bones, immobile for so long begin to creak. The frozen dragon slowly, meticulously, raises its (previously bowed) head, bleary eyes settling on the first dragon to pass it by for what may have been centuries. The approaching dragon, now visibly a…

Benjamin Von Wong features a vibrant color scheme. The extremely bright blue and green colors help to lead the viewer's eyes to the mermaid laying on the floor. On a first glance the clash of the blue and green against the neutral tan color create an elegant background for the mermaid laying on the floor. The mermaid is colored with a very bright orange and violet to draw the eye of the viewer to the mermaid. Bottles create a illusion of an ocean, but upon closer examination it is clear that…