The Second Coming

jumped at the chance. It was raining, which was always more challenging, as the ground was slick and it was hard to stay on your feet. The only time games were called was if there was lightning, but that day there was just a lot of rain. We were in the second half with about five minutes left I was running down the right side of the field with the ball. None of my team was up with me, so I knew I was going to be taking a shot. A defender came towards me, I went to pivot around her and my left…

It was hard to walk the the muck becoming in between our toes and muck getting flown through the air. “Splat!”, The muck hit my face. Dodging muck balls and getting hit with muck balls in the face. Fish swimming between our toes. Flying mud between our toes. Finding hidden treasures. Carefully taking our steps through the muck. Jumping over rocks, stepping in the sand. Especially having fun, running our feet through the mucky water. Walking through the water and having fun. Action paragraph 1:…

“Why did my mom and dad give me up for adoption?” Her foster mom said “because they thought , they couldn’t handle having a child.” She lives in a urban city in a foster home. She is 18 years old, she has long black hair, she is 5 feet tall, and she would do anything for chocolate . One day Brandie said “ OH MY GOSH! Why do I smell chocolate?’’ She said. “ I LOVE CHOCOLATE, I LOVE IT , I LOVE IT!” Chocolate drives her crazy, so she started following the scent. The smell of chocolate brought her…

That's when I know it's time to get up. As a result, there is no need to set my alarm for 7:15 anymore - the yelling and chaos outside my door that is more reminiscent of a war zone than a family home is enough to break my deep sleep cycle. While I gather my football clothes from the laundry room and climb into the shower adjacent to my room, I listen in to the everlasting struggle of my step-father trying to corral my three brothers and get them ready for school. Even the most mundane,…

Ray Bradbury's all summer in a day teaches readers that jealousy can lead to people doing bad things. In this story the kids in her class locked her in a closet because she saw the sun and remembers what is lookes likes. The kids are growing up on venus where there are storms all the time. Once every 7 years it stops raining and the sun comes out for only 2 hours. Margot moved to venus from earth when she was 4 so she has seen the sun. The other kids were only 2 when the sun came out so they…

alone. Every day at school I would have to pretend to be someone that I wasn't and put on this fake smile so no one would know something was wrong. I would walk around every day so mad at the world when I was really just fighting with myself. Since coming out and being more open with other people, I have felt more love and acceptance than I have felt in my entire…

Throughout my life I have had to deal with some pretty scary things. As a child, and even now, these things take a huge toll on how I deal with other things. I have always been an anxious person and I can definitely say that traumatic experiences (like the one I am writing about) have changed my mindset and how I live my daily life. The day started of fairly normal. My friend had just got her license and she offered to take me to Washington, Missouri to go shopping and just have a fun day…

represents her fantasy world, where she was so close to finally accepting herself as a free person, who did not have to live by someone else’s standards. Downstairs represents reality because down there, Richards tries to block her view of her husband coming in the house, reinforcing society’s ideas that women needed to be protected. It is also representing reality because once she is down there, she is immediately seen as a more fragile being rather than when she felt so free and strong just…

For my baby boomer interview, I decided to interview my grandmother, Carolyn Williams, the second oldest of six who was born in the year 1952 in Portland, Oregon. I started the interview with asking her, “What new technology came out during your childhood?”, she replied, “... we had cellphones, but they were like the size of a tv remote, but bigger”. She laughed and asked my aunt if she remembers what the cell phone looked like. My grandmother adds, “The cell phones that are out now are so…

On Veterans Day 2014, I asked my dad if we could play a round of golf. Since I was a baseball fanatic at the timen, my dad was surprised by my question, but nevertheless he set up a round of golf for us. When I hit a ball off the first tee, I knew I had found a new, strong passion. Although my swing was horrible, I was determined to practice golf everyday to become better. I told my mom about my exhilarating experience on the golf course later that night, and I slowly began to realize that I…