Then all my emotions kicked in. First I was upset that I was only swimming one event. Then I felt scared, because this was my first time swimming at a championship swim meet. Finally I started crying, and once the tears started, I couldn’t stop crying.
The Realism of Eudora Welty Eudora Welty (April 13,1909 to July 23, 2001) was an American author of short stories and novels, fiction mostly set in the Depression-era of the South. From Jackson, Mississippi, Welty was a celebrated and respected author and received the Pulitzer Prize in 1973 for her novel The Optimist’s Daughter. She Read more…
PRESENT DAY On a breezy summer morning in Poland, everything was silent. The sky was a dark shade of black and everything was still sound asleep. All that changed when Olivia woke up to the sound of a fury of roosters crowing. She jolted to a sitting position when she realized it was her Read more…
A lion and tiger make a liger, so what does a horse and zebra make? What’s brown and black and white all over? The zorse! Zorses are one of the world’s many cross-breeds, but this one is very peculiar. Another name for zorses is a zebroid. A zebroid is any animal Read more…
From Seed to Fruit The man is scared, this man frightened by the world outside. He walks with a hunched back Looking down at his feet: he never even tries. He hides in his home, wondering what he lacks Then it suddenly comes to his mind: “It’s courage!” He hears something next door, he Read more…
