Trade wind

ago from the east and the remnants are still lingering throughout the air. Cold, and muggy, the air clings to the faces of bystanders. The paper white breath of people stay in the air for a split second and disappear after only a few milliseconds. Wind dashes throughout the town. Weaving in and out of alleyways, through the streets, and over the top of buildings. Smoke billows from chimneys. People huddle around barrels that contain burning wood and charcoal. People stand shoulder to shoulder,…

It was a warm sunny day in late December, I ran and leapt on. I immediately fell and landed straight on my back. The board went flying down the shore without me. I still couldn’t figure out how to ride on the board. Did I need to distribute my weight better? Last December, when my family was in the Ron Jon surf shop, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, we noticed a strange blue board. It was like a surfboard, only it was much smaller and was a bit broader. When I asked my Mom what it was, she explained…

and wary in their eyes. There was this unusual eery silence no one seemed to talk, the only thing you could hear was the crunching of the leaves underneath our worn-out feet and the chirping and howling of the creatures of the night that the autumn wind threw our way. I took a deep breath in , inhaling the bitter medicine from my inhaler, this was my fifth puff in the past hour and it wasn't really helping, my lungs were slowly tightening. Walking through the dark forest reminded me of the day I…

Famous female author, Joan Didion, wrote “The Santa Ana” to educate readers about the reactions of the LA population to the notorious winds in the area. She writes about how “The winds show us how close to the edge we are” (Didion 47). Every person has a different metaphorical wind that forces him or her to fall off of their own personal cliff, and mine is depression. Depression is a commonly misunderstood mental disorder. Some people even use it as a description or an emotion, for example, “Oh…

Through the Peephole I didn’t know what was coming until it actually hit me. Thick. Dark. Massive. Hurling straight towards me like a huge sea of black dust. Winds exceeding any scale. Plants being ripped up from the ground. Me in a thin blue dress with a dirty apron, hair in a messy bun. Trembling. In two feet was my drafty farm house with the thinnest walls in creation to protect me. Of course I was completely oblivious about what was going to happen. The Dust Bowl. It was here in full force…

The wind ruffled the leaves as Edgar walked through the woods. He noted that, in comparison to the sun’s radiant heat, it was a refreshing breeze. He stopped in his tracks, stood up straight, and took in the sights and sounds and smells of the forest. Edgar was fond of his pattern of absorbing everything around him, and then focussing in on a single detail that he found interesting in that moment. Edgar felt godlike whenever he viewed his environment as a whole. He could see and feel everything…

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Another shoveler’s heart attack. Volunteers with snowmobiles taking doctors to hospitals. Every part of my body was scalding cold, but one part scalded coldest: my neck, my plump child’s neck. The wind was wily, cupping my lowered chin and arrowing along the inch of skin before my parka’s zipper. The wind, like a squirrel wielding knives. How much farther? I tried to step where my father was stepping. I tried to use his body as a shield. Family of three or four, frozen dead on the road, hadn’t…

All of these other sightings had their logical explanations, so what was Roswell’s. After four decades of silences in 1994 the Airforce finally explained. They said it was called project Mogul. In June 1947 the Airforce released four top secret balloons that were designed to listen for nuclear bombs 10,000 miles away. One of these balloons blew off course and became the Roswell UFO. The materials that were found matched the materials that these top secret balloons were made of. The explanation…

Ready to be shocked? There was a boy named Allen Martin who lived in the ghetto of Odessa TX. Allen and his family were always having power outages because of the faulty electrical wiring in the small house they lived in. Because of his family being poor all the time they never had money to hire an electrician to fix the wiring. Allen was hitting the age of 17 already and he knew he could do something about this problem. He went every day to the public library and read up on all the problems…