Valdosta, Georgia

It isn’t fair. “Why is it like this?”Mirie muttered looking at her lap. She sighed as she looked out the window of the bus as it turned toward her neighborhood. Grey clouds obscured the sun. All the houses were the same dingy, decaying brown color. Some had broken shutters and doors barely hanging on their hinges. Her house was in fact similar. Her bus came rumbling to a halt. Mirie sighed again as she stood up to get off the bus. As she went down the steps, the driver called out,” Happy…

Ever since I was young I have always happened to find myself being the black sheep of the flock; I was always the one left out, the odd one of the group. I was the youngest of my two brothers and also happened to be the quietest. Growing up wasn’t easy for my family and I since my mother was a single mother of 3 and had no one else to support her. You might be thinking “what about your father?” well my mother left him right before I was born due to the fact that he was abusive to my mother and…

I grew up with three brothers and a single mother. The life we lived was not the average person’s life because my brothers and I have been put through so much at such a young age that we didn’t really register what was truly happening. By the time we would start to catch on to what was happening, we would already be on the move. That was pretty much our life, a life that was unstable. As we watched our mother get fired or let go job after job, it began to be a very hard life to live. I’ve lost…

It’s been ten years of this marriage and I can’t take it anymore, I want to leave but I don’t know how to get out. I've asked for a divorce bu but tells me no each time, I feel like a prisoner to this man, he just keeps me around to take care of the house when he's gone, I'm scared for my life, he's never hit me but when he drinks he becomes very violent. I need to get out before he hurts me. I can hear him coming in the house the clicks of his boots, rumble through the house it gets louder as…

It was Ellie’s and Lexi’s senior year at Birkwood High School. Both girls have been best friends since they were in third grade. As they grew up, both had different relationships, both played different sports, and both participated in different clubs, but that didn’t stop them from hanging out all the time. Lexie was always jealous at the fact that Ellie was more popular in everything she did. Ellie is a straight A student, who has a 4.5 GPA, she is a starter on the soccer team, starter on the…

Gardner.Session1.Journal As I reflect on the past as to why I want to go back to college, I remember sitting in my Director’s office at work, talking to her about our department, and the increasing number of assignments she is being handed down. I remember her telling me that she was going to need help with the department if she was going to be expected to do all of her work, plus the other work load being added. I left out of her office to get ready to leave my shift, thinking about what she…

It had been exactly 20 years since Laura made the worst mistake of her life. When she turned on Rachel. It didn’t make her fit in, it only lasted a week. Then she was the victim again. Laura had no one. She tried to talk to Rachel but she ignored her. This had been the biggest mistake she had ever made. Now years later Laura is a single mom with a 15 year old daughter. Octavia was identical to her mother. Her father left when she was six years old, but they are good. Laura is writing in the…

My mother drove me to the airport, the windows rolled down and the 75 degree air mixing in the car. I was wearing a white sleeveless shirt and a pair of light blue shorts. I had a small jacket in my bag for when I got off the plane, some books and my small iPod. I was moving to Forks; a small town in the north part of Washington state. I haven’t been there in years, not since I was 13 to be exact. It was the town where my dad (Charlie) lived, I used to spend summers with him, but I haven’t in…

I grew up in church, I remember going to church every Sunday. So when I entered first grade and was around the age of six I had the opportunity to save the salvation prayer and I took it. A couple of years went by and I was in the third grade when I made a group of friends at school who were homeschooled and I went to public school. This was one difference that I feel started my comparing my walk of faith to. To me they were perfect and where doing everything God wanted but I felt as if I failed…

Trio to Tennessee I have had lots of moments in my life cannot be forgotten. These moments means a lot to me, whether these are bad or good. However, that moments I will never forget it, I went to Tennessee last spring with three of my closest friends Don, Miz, and Ahmed. This trip was special for all of us. We all were excited to go, and we did make reservation for the house and the car a month before the trip We had a rental car and heading to Tennessee. We had snakes in the road…