I was lying on a long, cold, uncomfortable stretcher being shoved in the back of an ambulance, and then the paramedics slammed the doors behind me. All I could see was the big doors of the ambulance, the wires and tubes going everywhere throughout the ambulance, and the paramedic trying to calm me d...

When The Lights Went Out It was a brisk October night, homecoming was in the air. We were playing our district rivals and everyone was hype. We needed to win the game in order to go to the playoffs. Everyone looked like they were going to the Golden Globe Awards and the coaches thought it was ...

I was sixteen years old, ready to enter my sophomore year in high school. My parents were in the middle of what I call a nasty divorce. This was definitely a horrible summer. I was facing some hardships in life, and I had the worst summer a kid could have. That summer I went camping and met my f...

Most people around here worship Texas high school football like the ancient Greeks might have worshipped Zeus himself. For me football was just the precursor for what was yet to come; high school basketball. Giving my friends no choice but to attend every tournament and travel countless miles ...

Your pain is the breaking of the shell of your understanding." These are the great words of Kahlil Gibran, a famous philosopher from the 1800's. This is the story of great pain and horror. I broke something once. It wasn't a shell as I recall, it was more along the lines of bone, ...

Close Encounters Being fourteen is a magical time in one's adolescence, it is then when they are considered "teenagers" and start attending high school. Your mind is sponge absorbing fresh ideas and concepts. New opportunities and experiences are available to you, and the world is y...