Once, there lived two neighbors, Sam and Jim, who lived right next door to each other.  Neither knew much about the other, so they just kept to their own business–at least before the Petsmart down the street had a sale on puppies.  Sam lived alone, and he decided that he should get a puppy.  What [...]

Cameron sat down hard on the bed, his head buried in his hands. Nothing was going as he had planned. First the loss of his job, and in these hard economic times, he desperately needed one. He had gone through interview after interview, all of them saying they would call if he was accepted. It [...]

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By Inna  Kuzmich In an exquiste land far, far away called Santosiana, there lived a king with a large jaw, a queen with beauty, and prince with a lot of beaus. He was handsome 16 year old  and loved by all. His name was Prince David and he was the most kind, thoughtful, loyal, and [...]

  Author’s note: This story is a short composition about love and commitment and taking the step from a mere relationship to engagement. Sweat leaked down the young man’s forehead. Brent Steele had never been so nervous about a specific event. He stood a mere three feet in front of  his fully restored 1970 Ford [...]

“I can’t believe it happened again!” David wailed, flipping through neat stacks of papers. His tousled, sand-colored hair and tear-stained face revealed how frantic he was. He is a serious, straight-A student and was really worried about losing his essay. “I looked all over my desk and in the drawers for my essay that’s due [...]

Perfection – It’s what everyone strives for.  Each and every individual of this world does everything in their power to reach the level of life we call perfection, even if they don’t know it. But we try in vain. Everyone knows that our hunger for it cannot be satisfied. If it could than we would not be [...]

I was dizzy with overflowing excitement. The clamor of the city went completely unnoticed by me. All I heard was the rhythmic thumping of my beating heart and the stomping of my flying feet on the cold, hard pavement. A wad of discarded chewing gum stuck to the bottom of my worn out sneaker. Every [...]

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Chapter One “Gabriel!” she screamed as she ran down the grassy path after her friend. She was running out of air but she had to catch him before it was too late. She could hear her heart beating in time with the pounding of her sneakers. Her arm grazed a tree branch and she felt [...]

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Sploosh. I look down at the puddle around my feet and three little words go through my mind.O.My.God. Followed by two words that come out of my mouth, “It broke,” my mother looks at me in confusion. “What broke?” she asks and then her eyes go wide. I nod my head. “My water mom….I think [...]

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Flipping through a magazine while waiting for my hairdresser, I came across an advertisement portraying a beautiful woman with flawless skin, high cheekbones and long, thick eyelashes. At the top of the page was a message stating “The new face of beauty”. Beside the goddess-like face was a container of eyeshadow and blush, and underneath [...]