Even though at first I hated everything about Georgia, my attitude coincided with that fact and caused me to have problems with the "Locals". ... After some time had gone by I realized it wasn't so much the fact that I hated Georgia or the people in it, but rather that I missed where I previously had lived and all of the many things that went with it. ... I replied with one of my usually arrogant remarks. ... I felt as if I needed closure with my friends from where I previously lived. ... Two years passed like dust in the wind of a desert. ...

• Word Count: 942
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

This is a rhythm and blues song with a jazzy flavor; a Billy Holiday-like delivery. ... The tempo of the song is slow to mid tempo with an eerie, skipping beat. ... The song deals with emotions that almost everyone can relate to. ... We focus our energies on negative people and negative experiences and wind up missing great opportunities that were intended for us. ... When the wounds are finally exposed, the perpetrator is gone. ...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

It was the time of the Icing, and the snow and razor-winds blew across the lands and before and behind them came the war and the war went across the lands worse than the ice, like a plague, and there were those who took in the plague and died by it, or were wounded deeply by it, and I was one of the wounded, and at first I wished I was one of the dead. ... The job with the children. ... In the bed beside me in the crumbling, bomb-shook hospital, was an old man with his arm blown off at the elbow and his face splotched with the familiar frost-bite of a front-line man. ... Now I am a useless ...

• Word Count: 1820
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

As the chilly autumn wind swept us along the path towards her house, lightly kicking through the heaps of orange and brown fallen leaves, Sarah and I were conversing about the Morals and Ethics seminar that we had just had at school. ... Edwards," I calmly saluted, shaking his right hand with a firm grasp. ... Sarah questioned me with her child-like voice. ... Do you see that girl over there, the one with the red dress on? ... She keeps asking me to hook her up with you. ...

• Word Count: 2465
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School