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• Opinion > School / College
  Homework's Virtues

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Homework is an omnipresent part of high school life. It is met with groans and frustration by most, but it is the most important piece of work given to high school students. Homework helps students review concepts taught in class, and at a time when stress to get into college is high, homework can b...
• Fiction > Romance
  Gordon Castle

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Elizabeth Francis Gordon. I savored the taste of the name. In all honesty, it didn’t sound too bad, but I still preferred my given name. Not that I’d tell Richard that. He’d become the Ice Monster again. Thankfully, I would not be marrying Richard for at least a year. My father wouldn’t appr...
• Reviews > Music Reviews
  Take Me Home by One Direction

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  “Take Me Home”? More like Throw Me Out. The second album by popular Brit­ish boy band, One Direction, was met with much anticipation from screaming teenage girls. Sadly, it does not meet the hype. It doesn't live up to “Up All Night.” “Take Me Home” is more mechanical. The rhythm is ...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Circumstances

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Worn feet tread worn paths in a worn city. Everywhere, suffering is evident. Gaunt faces, thin limbs, emancipated bodies. Some cannot stand. Most cannot walk. This is a place where hope is a dream and dreams are nonexistent. The people wear little more than rags, their faces and hands caked with...
• Fiction > Romance
  Elizabeth Francis Parker.

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  “An educated lady must always hold her head high, have good posture, and stick her little finger out while sipping–sipping mind you, not slurping–her tea. You, my dear Elizabeth Francis Parker, are not an educated lady, nor will you ever be, unless you stop mingling with those colored workers....
• Fiction > Fan Fiction
  Sixteen

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Close-cropped blond hair, pale blue eyes. Sixteen years old. Prone to mental breakdowns when confronted with pigs, islands, fire, or sticks. That's what my school record said. That I was mentally unstable. That I lost it whenever I saw fire or pigs. Simon Peter Goldstein. Nicholas Edward...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Manipulation and Intimidation: Tools for Ultimate Control

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Castro, Mugabe, Chavez– countless oppressive dictators rule countless submissive countries. In reality, the power of people is much greater than the power of a handful of corrupt bureaucrats, but the government officials have one effective tool: intimidation. “The only thing we have to fear is f...
• Nonfiction > Sports
  The Trojan Demise

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  The University of Southern California Trojans football team was synonymous with victory. The football players themselves were akin to gods. Everyone expected this season to be an easy ride for the Trojans. So what happened? The Trojans just came out of a two year bowl ban, but they swept their firs...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  Forevermore

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  My fate is sealed. After today, I am no longer free. My life will be rules by the wishes of my husband and his family. I have lost everything. My father, my mother, my brothers. All gone. I have even lost my faith and my given name. No one can protect me from the horrors of what I am about to fa...
• Opinion > Current Events / Politics
  Surpressed Flames

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  Countless oppressive dictators rule countless submissive countries. Hu Jintao, however, does not. He rules Tibet. Tibet has not been silenced by China, but protests violently. Tibet should be granted its independence from China. During the 1959 Tibetan uprising, the Dalai Lama, the leader of Tibet...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Dancer

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  I rule the Earth for three months of the year Tiny– I get stuck to the soles of shoes. See me? Oh yes! But me– one cannot hear. What am I? Good question. Here are two clues: Lightly falling, I quietly cover The earthy brown mud and sharp spikes of green Silently deciding, as I hover Be...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Field Of Poppies

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA

  I sit down in that field, the field of poppies, the field of death. I sink to my knees in front of the two rough gray gravestones. It has now been fifteen years since one of them died, eighteen for the other. I suppose I’m a happy man now, with a small family: a wife and a healthy baby girl. We n...
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  Green Sand

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA
• Art /
  Photo > Photographs
  

  The Five Village Sea

  

  By Klammyt, San Diego, CA