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Walter Raleigh Coleton Hootman October 29th, 1618. This day is like no other in my life. I’m walking down a long stone hallway surrounded by brutal guards. I hear a snicker or two from them saying that I deserve what is coming. With iron shackles around my wrists and around my legs, I find it difficult to walk. The air is thick and every sound echoes from the hard stone walls. I fight against the guards, but it is no use. There is no way I can get out of it this time. I…

Crazy for the Wild You search your mind for any last hope of survival. None. It is over. You have finally accepted the fate of your fantasy, except it's not a fantasy at all. You have been living this dream of yours over the past few months. This is reality and slowly, over time you have begun to wish that it wasn’t. People called you crazy and you were ready to prove them wrong, but here you are weak, cold, and hungry, wishing someone, anyone, would save you from this awful suffering. While…

What is the hardest, most heartbreaking, out-of-your-control experience you have ever had? When I was asked this question, I originally drew a blank. Then a few select memories began flooding my thoughts, all with the theme of tears being shed. The handful of heartbreaking, not-in-my-control experiences involved someone I deeply cared about confiding in me and eventually crying about something they were going through. Until recently, it had been years since I had this type of experience (as in I…

In the beginning of summer, 2016, I was a slug. I didn't want to hang with friends, go outside, or even do physical activity. It was like I just wanted to be in a cave forever. This feeling of not doing anything was overwhelming and wouldn't let me get up from bed, even if I was bored to death. I didn't even have the drive to eat food! The struggle went on for a week or two until I told myself I'm not gonna be a cave dweller, I want to do something. I got up and went to the gym. This turned my…

Here I stand, a girl who once thought dreams could never become reality, walking across a glass platform, thousands of feet above a rampaging city, hoping that her last breath would not be spent wailing for help. I grew weary, unable to walk straight, gasping, standing amongst hundreds of sapphire cobras dotted with a radiating turquoise, the same as a single glowing cyan door that seemed to be my only hope. The view around me, was what I hoped were walls, and not rushing winds carrying…

The Dragon Egg The rain seems never stop, the sky out side is always overcast. Dark clouds above the city never dispersed like a giant cover after the war begin. There are no one on the street, the walls of the house topple down on the road, and a wreckage of tank is still burning in the square, around the square is the crater of the bomb. The bombs make the hole city in a dead silent. But in the basement of one house, there is still shimmer through the door. A boy, Parker just weak up because…

ALICE AND THE SHY DRAGON Alice was excited when her parent paid her excursion fee to the ancient castle. She was happy because she had long planned with her friends to visit the castle in the capital city. Days went by and the day to visit and the long awaited day came. On getting there, they were told to go to the fruit garden to play, relax and have fun while they were there. Alice and her friends like playing together, they played hide and seek game often, but she wasn’t enjoying it that…

Life in New Haven was fun with friends and family; I thrived in the loving environment. Weekends meant going for long drives through rural surroundings or running without a care on the beach. Then we relocated to India. I suddenly found myself in the midst of strangers; missed Ronald, Alicia and Zuhaan my pre-school friends. Moreover, the flies were annoying! Nevertheless, I made friends with Dhruva, Shikhar and Dennis, whom I met in the children’s park in our residential complex. Life was fun…

After sleeping like a literal bear in hibernation, I wake up with the sun rise that peeks through the windows of my room. Groaning, I slide out of bed and walk sloppily to my bathroom to get ready for the day. I wash my face, brush my hair and leave it down even if I'm training. I just like the feeling of the wind through my thick strands, cooling me from the heat underneath my skin. After this, I slip into the skin-tight training uniform designed especially to be like a second skin and light…

“ Mom! I don’t wanna go to school!” As students say early in the morning. But why does school have to start so early? Students are usually very tired after being woken up at six or seven in the morning to go to school. Schools should be starting later in the day, rather than early in the morning. Parents are constantly waking their child up every morning for them to get ready for school. Kids eventually get annoyed of being waking up continuously so they have an annoyed mood for the day. Schools…