Every morning, first thing, a cup of recaf with artificial sweetener. She drinks it slow, each sip an experience, from a bone-china cup stained yellowish with years of use. I bring it to her quick, before she’s out of bed, and then she’ll thank me, and rub the cogs in the back of me gently. Like she would a flesh-thing. She’s good to me, for a busy woman, an important woman. All day writing, fingers flying, and I fetch her pens, and sweet things to eat, and I take down the notes she asks for in that same soft, mellow voice. A scribe, she is. A scribe of Holy Terra. Brought me there and all. It’s brighter than I thought, back when I was a flesh-boy. I was going to be a mechanic, fix things up, maybe they’d have let me come there and fix something big and shiny, like the ships I can see dock outside her windows. They light up golden against the purple-dark of the late evening, when she leaves me resting by the desk to go out with her fellows. At night, before bed, she’ll put me down to recharge for the morning, but until then, she lets me watch. She knows things about me, you see. Most people, they don’t see the tiny bits of flesh-boy Eamon left in me, when they made me what I am. She does, she sees everything, always. …show more content…
And then, and now, I hear the tap-thump of her booted feet on the stairs. She’d left her data-slate glowing, maybe I should switch it off before she sees? Better to not. She’s through the door now, besides, in a glowing whirl of colour. She turns to me, a sharp chirrup of her tongue, not even a word, but an instruction nonetheless, to take her coat and fetch her a clean data-slate for more notes. The coat is heavy for me, and I waver on my moorings, shaky and burdened by the drape of heavy indigo
“She climbed into the cart, her profile knife-clean against a cheery blue sky. A profile that shocked them with its clarity.Was her head a bit too high? Her back a little too straight? Probably. Otherwise the singing would have begun at once, the moment she appeared in the doorway of the house on Bluestone Road. Some cape of sound would have quickly been wrapped around her, like arms to hold and steady her on the way. As it was, they waited till the cart turned about, headed west to town. And then no words. Humming. No words at
Lobstering is in my blood. It is what supports my family and most of my town. I have been doing it my whole life i’ve had a lobster license since i was 8 years old which is as young as you can get one. I love summer just for lobstering season plus I like the money outcome. I hate school starting the most because it tires me out because I play football everyday except sundays and some saturdays so i have to wake up early and haul on my days off from school.
As we close out the 43rd game of the season, the Phillies drop to 15-28. As the pitching woes continue, it's tough to look on the bright side. It's understandable for the fans to be anxious, but it's all apart of the rebuild. I'm here to tell you to R-E-L-A-X. The team is still incredibly young and in the process of getting back to October. Maikel Franco is struggling a bit at the plate. Picking up the slack in the lineup is Tommy Joseph, who has been on absolute tear through the month of May. Cesar Hernandez has cooled off a bit but still playing some good ball. What can't I say about Aaron Altherr? He's everything you can ask for right now and then some. One thing you can look forward to is one of the most exciting
The stone was cold and I could feel the pain swelling up inside. I took a step towards the edge, I thought to myself, “One more step and the worries would end…” if only it was that easy.
The most important game of the year was coming up and I was ready. Everything was going perfect for me, because I was the starting QB as a freshmen at Englert High School. We were playing Joston High School the number 1 team in the nation since 1960, it was going to be a tough game because they had the number 1 ranked defense, but we had the best offense. The day before the game was just a normal day I went to school and had football practice after school. A couple weeks ago one of the other teams that we had played earlier in the year wanted another game so we decided to play them. They had been the hardest team we had played all year, we had only beat them by a last efforts field goal it hardly went in as it bounced in off the crossbar.
My name was announced. The silence in the room allowed me to hear the judges’ pens scratch through my concise, four- letter name. With my baggy blue button- down, and all black dress- pants on, I proceeded down the auditorium aisle and onto the stage. Even though the crowd consisted of only around 30 uninterested students who purposefully displayed their lack of care, I still felt a pressing audience. Turning to my public- speaking teacher, I acknowledged the “you-may-begin” nod and turned back to the crowd, realizing what I had gotten myself into.
Tuesday, March 6th, 2018 at approximately 4:30 p.m., I Detective L. Donegain was contacted by Sergeant P. Orellano in-reference to a possible overdose at 415 Tradewinds Drive apartment B, Fayetteville, North Carolina 28304. I was advised Patrol Officers were on scene and standing by.
She walks to the centermost oak tree near Mason Hall, she finally has found the perfect shady spot on an 80-degree day. She passes the boy from her Psychology class and gives him a small smile. She’s taking a journey to a jungle she doesn’t normally observe, a place where many humans and animals inhabit. There isn’t a breeze and the air feels drier than usual. The Diag seems unfriendly today, as she sits down she’s nervous of her surroundings. She plants herself on a somewhat clean patch of grass and pulls out her shiny laptop. She is reading “Werner Herzog’s Conquest of the Useless” for her freshman English class. As she dives her way into the reading she starts to think about where she is, what is going on around her, and the journey that she is on. A bushy red squirrel approaches her, she’s confused why it’s coming so close and quickly gets up to escape its presence. “Why in the world is this squirrel so close to me” she thinks to herself. The girl moves from the tree but as she get up she starts to notice specific details she hasn’t before.
I’ve always looked at different objects and never connected to them. It wasn’t until I had received a keyboard that I realized that an object could become something more valuable then just inanimate. A piano has become this sentimental thing to me. Playing the piano with my mother has formed a strong bond between us. Every time I play the piano, it makes the bond between my mother and I stronger. Playing and listening to the piano is a comforting outlet. The music is relaxing. It also has taught me something new. Learning to play the piano takes time and practice. You have to learn about its functions to understand how it works. A piano is considered a musical instrument. Nothing special to it besides that fact that it
Were I to name one thing unique about me, it would be that I’m one of the only people I know who can say from experience which is more difficult; writing a personal essay or surviving a life-or-death, take-no-prisoners spy shootout, complete with a crowd of bad guys, laser guns, and of course, a hero and a sidekick. I’m the sidekick.
Today I woke up and I was feeling happy! I went from the down-under to get my breakfast. It felt a bit odd because freak wasn’t at my window. I stayed up stairs with grim and gram and we started having a nice little conversation Suddenly, i burst out laughing. For no absolute reason. Gram had got a phone call a few seconds later, her face turned pale, and her eyes were watery. She pulled grim’?”
She was perched in her chair, waiting for the arrival of the post. She glanced out at the deck, where the postman would be standing, just minutes to go. Shakingly, she poured herself a cup of hot tea, all while, glancing out the grubby window nervously. As she brought her cup to her lips, a sharp loud rapping came from the door. She froze, her heart skipping a beat. Hurriedly, she placed her tea-cup on to the place mat and jumped to the door. Ruffling her dress, out of habit, she pulled the door open reluctantly. She found a man standing rigidly, holding a telegram adressed to her. Her stomache dropped. So today was the day.
Freak. Worthless. Weird. You’ll never have any friends. I wish you were never born. Mistake.
The coolness of the bar stool has long since passed from the time I sat down half an hour ago. My fingers tingle from sitting on them for far too long, and I 've become chair shaped and must stretch my aching joints, soon. Nevertheless, I remain seated like a scolded child. As I fidget, waiting for my lecture to end, my clothed feet slip over the footrest. Though I keep my head low, my spontaneous eyes pursue Alice as she paces the length of the kitchen and its interconnecting living room. Alice, my best friend, who acts more like my mother than my friend.
Think of your favorite thing in the world to do. Something that defines you. Something that you can only experience from your eyes. For me it is soccer, and through that came a rite of passage that will be with me forever.