Lilies Last Forever"Diiiiiiing Dong!"Lily's eyes slowly fluttered open. She glanced at the alarm clock, which said 11:39 a.m. Getting out of bed, walking slowly down the carpeted stairs which tickled her tired feet a little, and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes, Lily went to the door. When she o...

It happened for as long as I could remember. I was ten and my sister was four. I am middle- height with light brown hair, which goes blond in the summer. I have pale skin, and when the heat and sunlight touch it, my skin develops in to a sea of freckles. My sister has brown hair like mine. She is sh...

I could smell the vodka entering my lungs, surrounding my body in its evil presence. I held my knees close to my body, and rested my head upon a kneecap. The shattering glass echoed in the background, filling my ears with the calls from hell. Tears ran down the sides of my cheeks, as I tried to ho...

"American Beauty"1. Impression ManagementImpression management is a way to get people to see you any way you want them to. To achieve this one would wear a certain type of clothes, for example, to give off a certain impression. It is all about image, and managing the impression you give off. If y...

This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.- - T. S. Eliot "The Hollow Men""I wanted to be scared again . . . I wanted to feel unsureagain. That's the only way I learn,the only way I feel challenged." --Connie Chung"In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak ...