The Smoking Room

hadn't slept in days. Like he had been constantly on edge and that worry lines were already starting to set in, in though he had not yet even reached the age of a teenager. He rolled from his bed, wincing as his bare feet touched the stone floor. His room was bare, absent of the handprints of color from when he and Cado had tried to 'paint' it when he moved in. He felt the awful feeling in his gut, looking to the door as three similar knocks resounded at his door. "Dulcimar?" Came the voice of…

Bam! This was the day which will cause me to listen to people more. The day I busted my head open was when I was eleven on a Monday morning right before me and my brother went to school, which started at 8:10 a.m. This morning was supposed to be a let’s-have-fun kind of morning. In the morning I woke up at six thirty to get ready for school; thinking about how the day would consist of learning, eating, and recess, and I went to the kitchen to eat breakfast. Hence, I chose to eat frosted flakes…

large oval mirror like in Sleeping Beauty which the student like to utilize particularly the boys, along with the school mandated emergency policy, flags, and whiteboard. Her desk is positioned in the back of the room while the student’s chairs are in rows facing the front of the room towards the whiteboard. Posted on the whiteboard is her daily agenda for each of her classes: two – tenth grade English classes, one Senior English, and one Advance Placement Senior English class, so the students…

With bewildered eyes and a puzzled mind, I sat quietly in my chair. “Jenny, what is y-intercept?” the teacher asked. Although I knew the exact answer, I kept silent and bowed my head, my uncontrollable shyness barricading me to speak in public. Students all stared at me directly with the chaos of expressions, and my face blushed and burned instantly. I was most embarrassed since the whole class had witnessed my dilemma. That is who I was, evading every challenge because of diffidence. As the…

Three weeks on intense apartment hunting, we found one that allowed children, was an amazing price, was in a good neighborhood, and it was furnished; meaning that it came with furniture. As a result of this, we didn’t have to hire a moving company. All we had was Blair’s toys and her type of furniture, so we just put it in the back of Antonio’s truck. The apartment was around 45 minutes away from the motel we were staying in, so I felt pretty safe that we would not wind up in the same area that…

1. I dislocated my kneecap one day at my old school. It was lunchtime, and the crowded cafeteria was full of noisy teenagers. I was sitting at one of the small round tables at the far end of the room with my friend Cheyenne. Finished with my lunch, I got up to return my tray and felt an unnatural popping sensation in my right knee as I stood from my chair. As my weight shifted I felt my kneecap pop out of place, slide over, and lock into place on the side of my leg. Immediately I fell back into…

Elementary Politics Dressed in a neon shirt and pop art styled leggings, I sit down on the bleachers, slipping my homemade missing link mask over my face. While the rest of the student council finishes touching up their various alien costumes with copious amounts of foil, the student body files into the gym for another all school homeroom. My right leg bounces, giddy with anticipation. I am about to announce this Spirit Week’s extraterrestrial adventure movie theme, which we coined “Out of…

I plopped myself on the schoolyard, rethinking what just erupted in Miss. Caroline's class. All those kids lookin' at me, Miss. Caroline's eyes out of her head, and Scout blabbin' my history away. Out of the corner of my eye I see Scout walkin' over with a slight smirk on her face, like she'd just won three bucks. Next thing I know my face is grounded in the dirt, and I really don't do nothin' to stop her. Only thing that comes to my mind is, Why me? Out of all the Cunningham's, I gotta sit here…

up homework due at midnight. I didn’t feel like going out that evening, because the frigid air made the thought journeying downtown to party, very unappealing. However my roommate did not share the same sentiments. She was bored and restless in the room. She kept pestering me, “what we should do tonight?” “Don’t you want to go out?” I would have told her no but I knew that the rest of my night would be filled with her complaining about how we should have gone out to party. Still trying to…

It was a foggy-creepy-quiet Tuesday morning when I went into the chiropractor's office. I was there because of my back I would feel a pain in my back whenever i went to bend over so my mom took me to the chiropractor to get it checked out.When i finally got into see the chiropractor I was a little nervous since I hadn’t been to a chiropractor in two years and it was a new chiropractor I was going to at first he would adjust my back then send me on my way but when the pain kept coming back he…