This essay contains my thoughts about people whose personalities overwhelm everyone that comes into contact with them. My example is a high school classroom, but my thoughts apply to any group—the workplace, a PTA meeting, an online forum for smut writers, for example. ***** It is hard to imagine that one teenager has the power to make or break an entire s...
I was whistling as I pitch in the last bale of hay to the black mare. The horses were eating their hay when suddenly they start thrashing about in the stalls. "Still!" "Still!" I try to be soothing to the black mare but she is kicking the gate tenaciously. A sudden wind blows into the barn; the nesting birds fly from their nest and the cat stops playing...
Every night Han prayed. He burned cedar at the altar, kneeling nude there for hours in supplication. His father had taught him the ritual; he'd seen it work so long ago. Now he was of age and his own offerings went ignored. Weeks passed into months. The trees blossomed and died and snow lay mute on the world. Still he worshipped. The longer he was ignored,...
Authors Note: This is a recounting of an actual event that happened in my life a number of years ago when I was in a long distance relationship. Any feedback is more than welcome. *************************************** My father told me that I'd have the house to myself for a few hours when I got home from school one day...I could hardly contain my enthus...
I know that you can't tell, but I originally wrote this in pen. I spend so much of my time analyzing and overthinking everything I do for fear of making the same mistakes that I fail to live in the present. What I feel at present is compelling me toward total honesty with you, but I fear what it would mean for us. What do I feel? Right now, at this very mom...
Allen met Marie in Japan where they both were stationed, her as a dependent and him on active duty. They were married at the American Embassy in Tokyo Japan. She was going to college to be an accountant. She also can speak 3 languages and speak read and write 2 of them, English and Japanese. After they got married she chose not to go back to school. She deci...
When I first saw Julie I fell in love with her immediately from across the room. I fell even harder for her when I got the chance to talk to her and we hit it off. We started dating and things were going great. I figured we were at the point of having sex, but Julie always said no. She insisted that she could not and would not have sex with anyone until her...
Late one Saturday night, just before midnight, 70 year old papa bear Edward was snoozing in his chair in the living room. After a few glasses of wine he was sprawled out on his lazy boy recliner, snoring to beat the band while the TV droned on with the boxing match he had been watching. A few feet away, his step daughter Linda was sitting on the couch next...
The year 776 b.c is known as the first ancient Olympic Games by the Greeks. But archaeologists have found out that two years earlier, in 778 b.c. some kind of wrestling competition was created at Mount Olympus. The cause of this wrestling fight was the discussions betweens de gods and the goddesses, which gender was the strongest. And so there is one of the...
{[email protected] test=1}This story works only in game mode. Please activate. It has also been recently reorganized, so I would appreciate it if you kept track of your decisions and let me know if any path leads to wrong outcomes. Thank you!{endif} The city walls appeared through the misty haze of the late afternoon. Robb Stark, King in the North and o...