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“Hey, J! You did some good passes at practice today. If you do that in the game, they’ll call you the next Lonzo,” my coach yelled I scoffed. I’d been practicing by myself in my basement. After practice, the whole team walked out laughing and talking about my passes. We all decided to meet at the REC. My friend and I wanted to go together. We went to my house first so I could change. Then, we went to his house so he could change. After that, we walked to the REC. On our way, we saw a dog. It

I always thought I was a water-resistant plant, the kind with thick, rubbery leaves, intended to withstand burdensome rivers of water flowing over them. However, as the murky sky above the Boston Commons spat, each pelting raindrop withered me. How did this happen? I was the girl who flopped her limbs in ‘rain dances’ on the elementary school lawn and begged classmates to scribble ‘precipitation’ on their Christmas wishlists. Oh gosh, was I a succulent? I particularly resented plants of the crassulaceae

25...24...23...22… My heart beat like it was a frightened hamster. My friends, Ishir, Atley , Varun and Chanhee were playing at our school in the summer. We were on our last Nerf gun game before we would part ways into the mysteries of middle school. I chugged down a can of Fanta and grabbed my gun as my friends did the same. “Let's go Caleb” yelled Chanhee as he sprinted off with Atley. We had split up into our teams which meant that the game had started. I jogged after them and found them

One day, Karl, one of the few gopher tortoises left in his area, was going for a stroll to look for some tasty love grass. There wasn’t much to eat, the scrubland was covered in invasive plants like Kudzu vines, and torpedo grass, and Brazilian peppers. There was garbage littering the area, drifting in from the wind. Karl’s home wasn’t very far from where a group of humans had made a concrete home. It was difficult for him to move around with too many palms and trees densely packed in the area.

The school bell rang and we were all happy to get our bags and get loaded on the bus. All this excitement filled the halls as all the basketball players got out of class. As we were heading over to Sunray for our tournament we kept thinking, and thinking, and thinking over our plays. Three games were to be played and we were for sure going to win them all. We were ready to make our hearts bleed blue and white. We pulled up to the school and as a team we all gathered on the bus closed our eyes and

Album Review Say Anything’s new album, I Don’t Think It Is, is exactly what it sounds like. Max Bemis is no stranger to pushing boundaries and this album reflects the ways he continues to do that. Unlike most artists who release a few songs before the album drops, Bemis decided to take a different approach in not just his music, but also his way of presenting it. This album was a complete surprise and it was dropped as is with no songs leading up to the release. I was excited to see

“Petlon get in there,”Coach said. At first I was like what does he mean. I was confused because at the time Eli was a better center. I figured I should hustle out there and give it my best try, so that’s what I did. It was a warm Thursday afternoon. The trees were swaying back and forth. I was on the sideline standing with several others watching the starters run plays. Whenever I went in to snap I would get one chance and if I had a bad snap I’d be back on the sideline. It made me mad how I’d get

One afternoon when Guy was out of town, I slipped off to Bowling Green to Sam’s Club to buy his Christmas gift. He had shown me what he would like to have “someday” so I knew exactly when that “someday” would be. Without wasting time, I went directly to aisle “9” in hopes I could buy the gift and get back home before he did. The sign read “take this tag to check out,” but there were no tags in the holders. Now what? I was not going to be able to get this item without help, so I asked several people

Fighting cancer can be difficult, you have to do many treatments such as radiation, chemotherapy, and many others that treat cancer. You have to do this at different times during the lifetime of cancer. Casey found out he had cancer after the doctors revealed a lump in his neck, he was diagnosed with lymphoma in the beginning of his junior year. Casey combatted cancer all of his junior year, he had to do school at home while travel to Dallas Texas to do his cancer treatment. Casey Fought cancer his

I then felt a breeze past me and I was knocked away from the group, managing to sit up, I look at what had done it. I saw some creature that had a body of a woman and the lower body of a spider. It freaked me out bad. Noct got in front of me, as if shielding me from that creature, he asked me if I could get up, replying to him, he nodded his head and told me to go to where Prompto was at. Getting to my feet, I ran over to where Prompto was. “Man, I hate bugs!” Prompto cringed. At the mere sight,