It’s 5:30pm. It’s dark outside despite the slowly approaching spring and you’re still there? You ask. Yes, I’m still at school. It’s parents evening tonight and mine decided to book appointments from 6:30. Bearing in mind it can take an hour to get home and an hour back (including minor delays but not accounting for big ones) it would have been pointless to go home because I’d only have a little while before I had to grab the bus back (Yes, I have to be here too. Who else will point ...
She drew her chair closer to mine, and opened the album... the first page had a picture in the center of the page, a family photo... how many people it? four... She didn't look up, softly said pointing to the people in the picture, "My mom, my dad, my younger sister and that's me... They all looked happy... smiling faces. "I Love my family... I miss them..." I didn't know what to say or how to respond, i couldn't understand... where was her family! What ...
Am I the first person to get an infraction on lit net? Perhaps. If you check my profile you'll see I got a 10 point infraction. For what you may ask? For standing up to someone who was belittling other nation's literature. Well, there are worst things in life. Perhaps I'm no longer welcomed here at lit net.
This morning I woke up and donned the ironed black shirt and pants and sqeezed my feet into the loathsome heels to carry out the formality of burying someone who no longer inhabits their body. My boyfriend drove us to my mother's house where we rode with her, my stepfather, and my brother to the funeral home. What do you say to the guy who's mom died a week ago and is now driving to a viewing he doesn't want to be at? He had been avoiding having to see her lifeless body for so long, ...
I was waiting for her to return, meanwhile I sat in my chair and looked around the living room, beautifully done, a shade of peach and the orange lights gave it the effect of a sunset… the scanty but bright furniture and the maroon carpet on the floor made the room look redder. The small round dining table with just four chairs around it was where I was sitting… the white china cups were simple but looked expensive. I looked out of the big glass window-wall the only but sufficient source of natural ...
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