It happens when your alone in your room, for a brief moment all background noise fades away and you  hear your named called out by your mother. you get up and go to her to see what she wanted, but …

I slowly woke up, and stared at my ceiling. Summer was over and the leaves were falling off the trees. If I don’t get up and out of the house soon, I might be volunteered by my parents to rake …

This is not a diary. Or at least that is not my intention. I have no plans of writing down my day to day activities. I doubt that anyone would find my life interesting enough to want to read about …

This morning wasn’t the first I had woken up with scratches on my body.  I noticed that my abrasions also appear after a violent nightmare. But it wasn’t a nightmare of horror, helplessness or sorrow. I still felt powerful, even …

There’s a beacon of light in the darkness, swaying to and fro, to and fro. It’s beautiful. Illuminating. Hypnotizing. I follow it, like I would follow a lover to the ends of the earth. Camping out in the woods was …

in 1988 there was a poor man living in small village in Pakistan every day waking up and start working from the sunrise until the dark hoping someday he will be a rich man, so one day he was coming back …

I was so excited, I could hardly finish my breakfast. Today our class was going to take a trip to the museum with Egyptian artifacts on display. Jared and I had been talking about this trip all week. We had …

A long winding stretch of black asphalt weaves in and out of view through dense shrubbery. Amber leaves glided gently across route 25, faintly reflecting the last rays of the setting sun. Breaking into the sounds of nature, a rusty …

The two men walked into the ranger station accompanied by mountains of pristine equipment. A sure sign of trouble Troy thought as he studied them. “What can I do for you folks?” “We’re heading into the woods and we would …

Troy leaned back against the bench and stared at the sky. A cool mist drifted off the river as the full moon came out from behind a cloud. He closed his eyes and the moist air muffled what little life …