My Traffic Accident It was just an other rainy day. I was going to a basketball game with some friends. As I was walking out of the door my mother said “Drive carefully son it’s awfully slippery out there”, I ignored her like always but just replied, “Yes mother I will!” After watching the basketball [...]
“A Simple Sacrifice” Some people go to great lengths to attend the musical performance of their choice. Middle aged washed-up hippies donning Hawaiian shirts, parrot hats, and Caribbean-style beads, flock in a sea of bright and blinding colors to the obnoxious sounds of the man they call Jimmy Buffet. Thousands of screaming teenage girls swarm [...]
True Story of an Internet Hacker It was a lonely Saturday night. The wind was howling through the branches of the old oak tree outside my window. The branches swayed back and forth, creating faint tapping and screeching sounds on the glass. And so, I sat… It was a night like any other; my music [...]
The Wake-Up Call I was walking around the campus after my first class ended. I saw a crowd of students watching the breaking news. I asked one girl what was it all about, and she said “Some terrorists high jacked two airplanes filled with passengers, and crashed them at the world trade Buildings.” Then unpleasant [...]
The Test Drive! With five thousand dollars in my pocket, I sat anxiously in the passenger seat of my uncle’s car. Why was I so anxious? I know why, because I was on my way to buy my very first car. I was seventeen at that time and had worked like a dog throughout my [...]
A Literary Analysis of “The Lottery”Name: ramzi al-asiDate: 26-10-201 Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery”, ironically gives the lottery a bad meaning. The lottery in this story is used for a public stoning, contrary to the first thing that comes to a reader‘s mind when they think of winning the lottery; a big sum of [...]
The Blue Rebellion Why did dad send me here? He knew that Asuro was a corrupt company with a tendency for false advertising. Relaxing, exotic military colony my-ass. It’s more like planet of the damned. There’s not too much I can do about it now, though. Here I am on Pluto. I think it’s 2155, [...]
Snow White’s Awakening Snow White lays asleep in her bed, awaiting a kiss form her prince charming. Suddenly her wooden bed turns to metal and the pictures of flowers transform into posters of Blink-182. In strides a young man with baggy pants and a blue Mohawk. In the background we hear the sounds of freeway [...]
NO! I don’t want to go! Let go of me, I don’t want to! “Well you have to and I’m not leaving you here! Trust me it’s a nice neighborhood and you’ll meet a lot of new friends. Now get in the car we’re going!” I didn’t want to move my little neighborhood I’ve known [...]
Early for a dinner reservation on a cold wintery night, I stood in a parking garage vestibule watching two homeless men. One was black, one was white, both were dressed in the haphazard uniform of the streets. The smaller of the two sat on the sidewalk, leaning against the wall, his knees drawn up, head [...]
