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English Essays
Clear Lake
Clear Lake
Sabra
I looked ahead of myself, letting my feet do the work, for a moment. The trail seemed so distant and lengthy in front of me. The blue sky filled with scattered puffy, white like cotton clouds. The long gras...
River Journey In Brazil
River Journey in Brazil
Hassan Indo (AKA Indo_Bro'$$)
Dear Irene,
I would first like to thank you, for encouraging me to enter the competition and I could not believe that I won. As soon as they called out my name on the r...
The Assault: Part 1: Search For Victory
The Assault: Part 1: Search for Victory
ciamessage@hotmail.com
I am a normal kid, well sort of. Everyone has those different things about them, for example: I fly planes, fence, and can perform geometry in my head. I am als...
A Forgettable Trip
A Forgettable Trip
Tom Gillette
The words on the sign that hung outside the bar gleamed: “Black Jack’s Bar.” After I jumped off my five-speed mountain bicycle and took off my helmet, I confidently walked up to the radiant b...
Wounded
Wounded
Dani Elle
We hear about gruesome things all the time. We are sympathetic for the people they happen to but then we shrug it off and move on. No one ever stops to think that those gruesome things could one day happen...
Revenge At Its Sweetest
Revenge at it's Sweetest
Leon Ioannides
Only a few slow moving tumbleweeds occupied the desert terrain. The endless plain of dust and hot dry dirt seemed to have no occupants, it was as if the ground hadn't been walked over...
The Charge
The Charge
Mike West
Prologue
This short story is about the impressions of a soldier just before he is thrown into the hell of battle. The date of the battle is of no consequence. These thoughts have no doubt come down th...
Problems With My Neighbors
Problems With my Neighbors
Chuang-Sheng Yang
How are your neighbors with you? You are lucky if they treat you as a member of their family, but what about if it is the contrary? What about if they treat you as a thing not as...
Junk Mail And The Art Of Hype
Junk Mail and the Art of Hype
Bill Mason
The art of hype pervades advertising of all kinds. You can see it everywhere you go. It's characterized by its extensive use of exclamation points, big words, powerful colors, and gi...
Persuasive Essay: Gothams City Cemetery
Persuasive Essay: Gotham's City Cemetery
Margarita
Constructing a cemetery is very useful for many reasons. People in Gotham City should construct a cemetery instead of a monument because people will use it, people will vis...
D|inquent
D|inquent
D|inquent
When things go wrong,
When things don't go the way you wanted,
You know it's the right time
To call it quits.
He or she wouldn't know what you have in mind,
So quit.
No explanation required,
...
A Dream Deferred
A Dream Deferred
Unknown
What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it...
Dreams Of A Lifetime
Dreams of a Lifetime
Andrew
Some people only get to dream about what life might be like if they had accomplished their life goals. Some people dream about what it might not be like. Steven was one of these more fortunate pe...
Sunset
Sunset
D|inquent
Seriously, I only witnessed the sunset few times during my existence. Though explanation may take quite some time, but do allow me.
Singapore- a tiny piece of land lying at the tip of Malay Peninsular. Ha...
Dangerous Encounter
Dangerous Encounter
Anonymous
It was a dreadful afternoon, big droplets of rain fell directly on my face and clothes. I tasted the droplets that mixed with my tears, the tears I cried after the incident. The pain in my foot...