Mike McCready

It was November 3, 2016, around 4:15p.m., on a cool windy day in Springfield, Illinois, a farmer named Joe Stanford was on his farm to pick all his crops before the winter comes. As he is picking his crops, he gets an unexpected phone call from his good friend named Sharon who lives just a couple of miles away. Joe answers the phone in no hesitation and immediately he senses the fear in Sharon’s voice as she speaks saying “ Joe I really need your help! “ I dropped my daughter off yesterday morning

“You better go to bed,” my mom called. “But Mom it’s not even dark yet.” “I don’t care if it’s not dark yet Archie Smith, you know that you have to go to bed before he gets here.” “Fine,” I call, slowly walking to my room. Why do I have to go to bed so early, and who is he? “Don’t forget to shut the window and lock it,” she called to my room. “I won’t!” I snap back. I walk over to my dresser and grab my favorite red and white pajamas, I throw them on and hop into bed. I look over at the window

Currently I find myself on the planet Almas. It is here that Akial was last spotted. He was teacher at the Jedi academy. Where he most likely lived a leisurely lifestyle. However, after the Republic was brought down, my dear father was pushed to live a life on the run. I first found out about his status as a teacher here on Almas from a couple of wandering tradesmen while I was still enslaved by the Hutts. From the moment the moment the two supposed tradesmen stepped into Oyell the Hutts hall, I

“He is in prison. We have not made it public that he took money from Yashpal to send you with him. We understand it will malign your life forever. But we would like to tell you something very important. Which we think you should know” “What is it about?” “It is about your mother.” Stream of tears flowed from her eyes. Word “MOTHER” has become emotionally painful for her. “If you are not OK then we can talk about it later on” He wanted to change the topic looking at the emotional breakout of her

In 1991 when Eddie Vedder wrote and performed his album Ten, he knew he was competing with the big time grunge band; Nirvana. Once it hit the stage it was clear there was no competition. Eddie’s deep, emotional messages throughout this album, his shaky, raspy voice that transfers from screaming lyrics to soft, poetic like speaking. All tied together with his hard to hate persona that can be heard throughout this album and every album made by Eddie Vedder. In the song Given To Fly Eddie says "He

Young Philip Malloy was suspended for 2 days from his high school for being patriotic. If you think I'm lying, I wish I was. You see Philip Malloy goes to Harrison High School and his parents are Ben and Susan Malloy. Ninth grader Philip Malloy was suspended for being patriotic by singing the National Anthem. There is no rule against it. First, Philip Malloy was suspended for patriotism. Philip Malloy said. "In school this morning, I was singing the "Star Spangled-Banner" then the teacher kicked

“Be ready for around… let’s say six o’clock.” “We can’t go out tonight. I already told you that.” Cali told her best friend Caleb now very annoyed. “You’re blowing me off again? Really?” Replied Caleb harshly. “No, of course not. I told you like two weeks ago that I had a doctors appointment at 7 so I would be busy tonight.” “Oh yeah I do remember hearing about that. So um would you like me to pick you up then? Say six o’clock still?” “Yeah, okay, fine, sounds good.” Six o’clock rolled around

"yes,” you managed to stutter out and boy, were 10 million thoughts run through your head just then ‘did i just say what i thought i just said?’ ‘omg, kill me this is embarrassing, i barely know the guy...’ and you felt your face explode in embarrassment as jeonghan stared at you in wonder “i didn’t expect you to say yes,” he tells you, completely shocked ‘then why did u ask wtf’ “but i’m super glad you did, i thought my heart was going to stop just now! your face looked like crab’s shell--super

Dear T, This morning I walked into your room because I heard quite a commotion of hangers hitting walls and drawers being slammed. Either you were trying to capture, kill, or scare a spider OR you were having an emotional breakdown. Either way, I was ready for it. I had Love and Logic training and knew exactly what I needed to say and how to say it…bring it on sweetie. I was not ready for you, my beautiful, kind-hearted SIX-YEAR-OLD daughter, to be throwing clothes around your room while yelling

Regardless if you had read Everyman at the time in which it was written in, the fifteenth century or present day like myself; this morality play is still relevant in the twenty-first century. The anonymous author depicts the life of a woman searching for an escape every living thing will once meet, death. She tries to look for the inanimate objects that she once found comfort in like fellowship and wealth to go with her in her death. She soon realizes that these comforts would only fail her, then