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  The Element of Drawing

  By Lindsay G., Hewlett, NY

  I was drawing – it must have been a dazzling display, the brand new ebony lay perfectly in my hand, I explored every crown and hollow, relentlessly left my mark on the page, shamefully boasted that I had seen – how much patience my eye was forced to illustrate, the gradual unve...
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  Hold Tight

  By Lindsay G., Hewlett, NY

  It comes every night – beginning with my shoulders, traveling downwards towards my feet, relentlessly working until each limb is wrapped in lethal saran– how gentle a reminder that my heart is still beating. As I put my youngest child to bed, my arms are reluctantly stripped ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Morty Frank

  By Lindsay G., Hewlett, NY

  In the same instance in which the world found out that Morty Frank was no longer with us, the Our Lady of Peace high school marching band turned left onto Franklin Avenue. I watched from the side of the road as the last row of tubas snaked around the corner, beginning the slow migration of mothers a...
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  Guide > College Essays
  Flying

  By Lindsay G., Hewlett, NY

  I tried to block it out, but my brain would not let me forget the inevitable, I was going to die. My palms were sweating, water poured from everyinch of my body. The people below me would have to get umbrellas to keep from getting soaked. All I could concentrate on was the man at the bottom wh...
• College
  Guide > College Essays
  Flying

  By Lindsay G., Hewlett, NY

  The life-size castle had a slide and two floors; my daughter would have to have it. We were 10 years old and leafing through the Toys “R” Us catalog, picking out toys we would buy for our children. We sat on our knees around the coffee table, drinking from coffee mugs filled with water. We were ...