... into the sky above, I could feel the dampness from a second teardrop as it came to a rest in the palm of my hand. You see, I was not returning home to visit for the holidays, but in fact I was heading home for good. I would be returning to my hometown of Portland, a place where I had for so long ... Teresa, as well as to see what life in the big city really was like. I fell in love. So approximately three months after our chance encounter the night of my birthday, I found myself saying goodbye to my friends and family and boarding a plane to the east coast. Before leaving though, I had e...

• Word Count: 1426
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... sounded as if it were coming from outside, so I ran as fast as my soft smoke covered slippers would carry me. Down the long steep stairs and outside I went onto the cold, dew covered front lawn. I found the rest of my family standing along with my neighbors and friends ... He had no answer, just a bewildered non-knowing look on his face like people get when they cannot remember someone's name they had met two days before. Our family was in a great state of shock and had no back up plan in case an emergency like this happened. We sat and ... hungry lion, so we decided to stop at McDonald...

• Word Count: 1595
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

... black in an all-white village. It begins with a sense of an extreme journey, like Charles Darwin's in the Galápagos or Tété-Michel Kpomassie's in Greenland. But then it opens out into other concerns and into a different voice, swivelling to look at the American racial situation in the nineteen ... all bemused. He is angry and prophetic, writing with a hard clarity and carried along by a precipitous eloquence. I took a room at the Hotel Mercure Bristol the night I arrived. I opened the windows to a dark view, but I knew that in the darkness loomed the Daubenhorn mountain. I ran a hot ...

• Word Count: 1342
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School