one by one, and then into the sky, and then into countless stars falling from the sky. The sky was no longer so dark and quiet, and suddenly it was so lively and lively. I stood in the crowd, jumping and cheering. I was so excited and happy that I could not express myself in a...
memories of the cuts along my arms, legs, and back made with the knife my mother had been trying to find for weeks, a lonely walk home, a move I never wanted to make, and a box in a little girl's closet filled with presents for when her hero returns. ...
The two grunts dropped a Works Key, so I hightail it back to the Valley Windworks and let myself in. The two grunts inside aren't difficult, though Paprika uses the last of its Ember PP on the first one. Hmm... could make things tricky. It's not ...
with 6,300 feet of climbing (and descending) over three passes in New Hampshire’s White Mountains. Fortunately, by then I was able to flex my elbow, and my arm was getting slowly but steadily better. Overcoming
for these books is a subtle, and incredibly effective way of cranking up the tension, propelling the action forward, and pushing the reader to keep up with the pace of the book. I should’ve picked up on it withRubicon, and am a little annoyed with myself for taking this long to ...
“In August of 1994, I bought a 20-year-old ferrocement ketch on the coast of British Columbia. I did this in an effort to distract myself – at the time I was so absorbed in self-pity that my eyes were crossed.” So begins this tale of sailing back and forth across the Pacific ...
A few saw pale blue and brown, and many people (myself included) saw all three. What, then, was the gift? It was a new kind of elephant. It was a concrete example of a simple, yet often offensive truth of human existence: We do not all see the same things. If you want to ...
“I know my mum grew up in very significant domestic violence and as a teenager I was, my stepdad was perpetrating [violence] towards myself, and my best friend was going through [something] similar. But it was always kind of weird because it sucked, but I wasn’t like “Oh, this ...