A high school student leaving 2017 behind

Fervent; having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, enthusiasm, etc; ardent I still feel the winter from the previous year as the cool breeze hits my face. The second semester of my sophomore year begins. Ice caps finally melt and tulips flourish from beneath the rich soil. Birds, bumble bees, and butterflies…

Drowning on dry land

This is a short dystopian story emphasizing the real-life issue of human consummation on our earth’s natural resources for retail including the simpler technology that will be used to soon track us down in place of the cameras that will no longer be in use. Chopping, Breaking, Melting and Mending only destroying our nature for…

A Letter to My Future Self

Diffident: Lacking confidence in one’s own ability, worth, or fitness; timid; shy Dear Future Self, I will never fail to remember the fact that everything that you have came across of, said and done has led you to this moment. Your mind and attitude is shaped the way it is from your experiences. Your brain…

Letter From A Child’s Perspective

Perchance it is easy for those who have never felt the shooting needles of domestic violence to say, “You’re okay.” But when you have seen brutal men manipulate your mothers and siblings on sight and threaten your brothers and sisters at stake; when you have seen despise filled abusers torment, threaten, and even hit your…

Viscous Wildfires

Sometimes, wildfires are vicious.   That is eventually the underlying period here, as people evacuate, civilians escape the fires in their homes, and the fallen remain unspecified in the debris that once was Northern, California.   Sometimes the fires burn and will not stop. Sometimes the fires spread and will not come to an end….

The race

I set my foot at the start line From this point on now it felt empty and nonviable From this point on now I couldn’t turn back Looking back would mean beginning a battle field in my mind Emerging doubt in myself, like previous times I couldn’t bear to even picture that scenario But it…