Things She Said

Obviously this isn’t working, can we try my one of my ideas? No, fine, what about something else? They are making you do water therapy for your joints, it’s not doing a damn thing, just like you told them it wouldn’t. The guy keeps saying “Oh, this exercise will stretch out your blah blah blah,” like NO don’t do that, I’m already plenty stretchy, stretchy is bad, stretchy is the problem. My PT guy says to try it for a month…

V. S. Naipaul once said, “Most people are not really free. They are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves.” In school, at work, everywhere you could think of people are chained up to the rules of society. How to dress, walk, and even how to speak. Each setting is a different rule, but essentially it’s all about living up to others standards and expectations. I too was disillusioned into thinking I’m “expressing my originality” whatever that means. In…

different places, on fire, and if I got shot I’d have a rainbow as a trail. So yeah, I’m super gay. But, figuring out I was gay was probably the hardest thing I’ve ever done in my life. I mean I didn’t even know the proper name for it when I was younger. I’m from a super selectively religious household, and being gay just happened to be one of those things they selected to hate. Now you have a little background information, so let me dive in. I don’t really know when it started, but I have some…

Often time’s things happen in life that we do not expect. Many turning points in life happen and we have to, somehow, learn to deal with this new “problem.” Sometimes, the issue is so life changing, we tend to lose our minds and become lost on this path of greatness. When life has its difficulties, we often frown upon the things that have blessed us in the past. We forget about all the things that have leaded us to that point of our life, that when that moment comes, we become selfish. Some…

way to get to the food source that father talked about. Brother almost made it before the thing with the four rolling objects took him. With Sister it was quick. She just bounced and that was that. The end. It all started a month ago, when Father was getting ready to take us to the place that I am now. Mother and Father, (I miss them), have always taken care of us. They taught us a lot of things, like how to dig up lettuce without getting caught and making sure that we had a warm…

Values are very important when talking about a person or a thing. A value is usually described as the worth of someone or something, which in this case is someone. A value is also important because this could be the reason you like or dislike someone or something. In The Sword of the Rightful king by: Jane Yolen, values are an important part in King Arthur’s life. King Arthur shows many values for better and worse for the people of Cadbury and himself. The Sword of the Rightful King is a novel…

his mother. Who had been dead for many years. “Oh Steven, Look at you. You’re so big.” She smiled at him and he felt the tears coming immediately. She put a hand on his arm. “Ma, Where are we?” He asked, he had no idea what had happened. “You’re so strong, my Steven, you know that right?” She grabbed his hand, her hand as soft and everything smelled the same.His mother had always smelled like cinnamon, she liked to bake. Her Irish accent as crisp as he remembered, how he’d miss that sound.…

hard as I could and I refused to breath or even think.my body was begging me for the most essential thing to live, air, but I refused to give in to my flesh. By the time I got to the wall I knew how fast I was going so I did an early turn and my momentum lead me to the wall. I shot off with so much force my thighs cursed me with pain, but I kicked the water and pulled at it, for it was the only thing between we and the wall. I felt fast and knew I was fast but could not feel the win. I kept…

prepared to get in the car and head to my friend’s house. My mother’s body and actions had been acting funny lately, but me being 10 did not realize it was something I should take initiative in or worry about. I believed that maybe it was because she seemed fine. She still went to work at…

red eyes and yelling out various things while the man attempts…