The Second Coming

I am 12 years old and I got my first bear last year. I also got a huge in 2012. My dad wanted to make sure we got the opportunity to hunt bear before bear hunting gets restricted. So, my dad called Shepard Hunting Co. and he said a hound hunt would probably be best for us. All summer I was excited for fall to come and the hunt to begin. We started preparing a week or two prior and the night before we left I could hardly sleep, I was so excited. The next day we left around 11:00-11:30 am and we…

Jade 's POV "Shut the hell up you stupid bitch! I told you not to talk!" Derek, my step-father, screamed into my face. I could smell the alcohol on his breath. "I-I 'm s-sorry" I stuttered backing away from him. SLAP! I was on the ground in a second, I looked up at him with tears in my eyes. "Go get me a beer" he said and went and turned on the TV. I walk to the fridge and grabbed his beer and went and gave it to him. "Now get out of my sight, I don 't want to have to look at your ugly face…

The two nearly end up in tears as we tell the stories. After lunch we walk with Lynsey and Robyn to our club session. The second we walk in I feel safe. Not just because Luke is holding my hand, but because there 's a room full of people just like us. They 're gay and they 're out and they 're proud. They 're not here to judge us or beat us down. They 're here to support us…

by a dog! Okay so let's back it up and start at the beginning of the day. I remember that specific morning was Thanksgiving day of either 2008 or 2009. I don't remember much about the morning but I can recall my mom talking on the phone a bit, then coming out and dressing my sister and I. We were still young and couldn’t properly pick our clothes out, especially since this was a special occasion. My mom knew this lady and they were good friends. She didn't have any children but instead, she had…

drain the oil into the oil pan where the rest of it is. Be careful, because if you drop this into the oil, it will splash the oil in the pan,and cause it to make a mess. When you do pull the filter out, there is a little rubber circle, that should be coming out with it. If there is no filter gasket, then it should be inside the area the filter came out of,all you have to do, is pull it out. After that step is done, it is time to put the filter back in. It is better, to get a decently priced…

out. "Can't you see," I said while knocking on the door, " Welby's not home? I sent him to a friend's for the night so I can bake his cake. It's a surprise." "He has to come home sometime," the man stubbornly said. He was aggravating me by the second, "Get out of there!" I shouted as I continued to pound on the door." You can still make the game if you leave now." Silence. I continued to pound on the door. Wallace had phoned multiple times, trying to speak to Welby. This had happened ever…

“Down, But Not Out.” “There it is Privates!” Drill Sergeant Gonzales yelled. As we all rounded the narrow and winding road through the Ozark Mountains, my heart began to race. All 250 of us slowed down to form a formation in front of what appeared to be the biggest climb we had seen and were not expecting to see for the next few weeks. Screaming at the top of his lungs, Drill Sergeant Galloway said “This is Engineer Hill, and starting in two minutes you all have thirty minutes to make this…

Coming into college, I had incredibly high hopes for how I thought things were going to pan out during my college career. Socially, I thought I was going to make this huge group of amazing friends who would never leave my side, and they would be the truest friends that I could ever imagine meeting. While I do see some of my friendships going that way, some of the friends that I met at the beginning of the year turned out to be the kind of friends that I wasn’t interested in keeping. I also…

together and then other groups of people during the night or days after would come together with the others. As days of protesting and riots went on after Stonewall, the number of people increased and could be seen hand in hand as one giant wall. The second major concept to emerge was pride because for the first time, fighting back against decades of oppression was successful and can be looked at as the first achievement in the gay rights movement. It could have only emerged with crowds of…

stand up after leaving my monitor. I immediately started looking for my phone. I need some answers. “Um hello? What is going on here?” I asked the interviewer. “What do you mean?” he asked. “Why is this happening to me? I am extremely exhausted after coming out of my alternate reality. How do I stop it?” “I am very sorry sir, but we have already left the country and I am not allowed to give out any information over the phone. Have a good day.” What the heck.. This is stupid. Why? I’m scared to…