With an exhausted sigh, Dirk Crozier unlocked the door to his business office at exactly 8:53 to begin another night of work. As he walked through the doorway, he threw his hat in the general direction of his coatrack. It missed, of course, but Crozier didn't bother to pick it up. He car...

I say a prayer. My fingers quickly find their place again and race to type my thoughts as they flood in. One sentence; two sentences; wait, no, not going to work. The passion of the idea seeps out of me as quickly as it arrived. Delete. "God, please help me out. What can I write about? What 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...

Shelley CrowleyEnglish 102January 30, 2001Shattered Dreams of HappinessIn "Eveline," James Joyce utilizes many literary devices to convey the difficult choice that has been presented to Eveline. The story is about a girl named Eveline, who feels it is time for her to start living her dreams. Her ...

Heroes... Do they even exist? What do we know about them? How are they made if so? I could keep going on with questions but I think that we all have a different definition of a hero; well what is the general definition of a superhero? In mythology and legend, a man, often of divine ancestry, who is...

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...

What is truth? I think, everyone has asked this question at least one in his life. It has been the main problem of many works of art. Well, "What is truth" can also be called the key problem of the novel "To kill a mockingbird" by Harper Lee. Here all the events in a small town i...

Love: Is it a Fairytale?"Love is...an all consuming emotion that encompasses your entire being.... love is pain and regret and contentment and overjoyment and friendship...love is the sweet and the sour.... love is the one thing that we as people all have the capacity to feel...love is the one pure ...

It's always said is good to make peace with your past. Well for me that's not the case. It's too hard to let go a painful past and all the things I went through. From the early 1930's through mid 1940's leaving in Germany were years that no one would ever forget. Through ...

Chapter 1 I awoke. There was a crash on the main deck. I heard a loud crack from above. I ran up the stairs and what I saw shocked me. The small wooden boat was completely in flames! "Help, help, somebody please!" I slowly moved toward the sound being careful not to get ...

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...

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 ...

Part I: The Tao Of Dani Time is an illusion because there is no real truth to it. It has never been proven to exist. It was made up by the Romans or the Babylonians thousands of years ago so farmers could meet on a hill top at 1 in the afternoon because one farmer's wife had a ...