I thought I was going to explode. The clattering of the pencils, the bouncing of the legs, the endless tick of the clock. I couldn’t do it; I had to do it, needed to do it.
The test stared up at me, mocking me with its knowledge I clearly didn’t repress. The words jumbled together, switching,...
Click clack, click clack
The noise of the heels echo across the locker covered walls.
The parting of the students as she passes.
She is her, the girl everyone wants to be, the girl that no one compares to, the one that stands tall.
I envy her.
She is everything I want to be, everythin...
My palms sweat as I go up to the front.
Everyone's watching, everyones listening.
I gulp as the teacher looks at me waiting for me to start.
I breath in one finale breath and shut my eyes before launching into my speech.
I stumble, a mistake, I can't do this.
More and more I stutter a...
Take action they tell me
Take action they tell all
Sign a petition or work in the soup kitchens
Just take action
Action isn’t so easy
It isn’t easy at all
What are you doing I say back
What have you done to take action?
Have you seen the suffering?
Have you felt their...
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Run in zig zags if an alligator chases you because it will follow you exactly and it has trouble with turning and seeing.
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Do not be an idiot and mess around with the alligators. You will die.
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You must be 16 to legally wrestle an alligator.
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Alligators will not come out an...
As I was looking out across the ocean I realized, (dramatic pause) this would be about how 50% of books start. Did you see what I did there? I tricked you. You thought I was going to ramble on and on about the vastness of the sea and how it relates to the journey of life and all that sappy stuff. We...
Not many people are aware of the huge environmental occurrence that is taking place in the Pacific. Plastic of all kind has worked its way into a soup like substance that is over twice the size of continental United States. Plastic is supposed to break down eventually but the ocean water exceedingly...
Do what you’re told and don’t be bold
Don’t be weak or you’ll be beat
When you disobey you will pay
The law of club and fang
Kill or be killed
Run or be beaten
Learn fast or leave
The law of club and fang
The club strikes down when disobeyed
The fang bites out when challenged
T...
It’s no secret that the entertainment industry in Korea has sky rocketed. Although it is not common knowledge in America, the rest of the world has fallen in love with South Korea’s K-pop (Korean pop) and their never ending supply of dramas. K-pop is a multimillion dollar industry that has capt...
Ashes, Ashes is a fiction book about the aftermath of terrible disasters such as a disease that wipes out about 95% of the population and natural disasters. The main character, 16 year old Lucy, is surviving on her own in the outskirts of what’s left of New York City. When a mysterious boy named A...
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