He wiped off the slick sweat on the back of his neck, knowing it was his time to shine. Centennial Olympic Park surrounded him. The Bank of America Plaza towered to the East. He rubbed the back of his blood stained feet, shook off the blister pain, shoved his polished trainers on his feet, picked up his stick, and started for the other side of the field. He was in the big leagues now.
“ANSTON MARISSA JENKINS!!!” “Anston Marissa Jenkins,” Anston repeated quietly, “It’s always about Anston Marissa Jenkins.” Anston heard her name being called again. It was no one else but her twin brother Austin. “Come on Anston we’re going to be la..”
Surreptitiously and quietly, the posted sentries at the main entrance leading to the Dweller city of New Hope maintained their duties guarding it, keeping watch over any potential threats that may arise from beyond the entrance at any time. From the balcony that stood directly above the steel gates of the main entrance, the Dweller city guard had managed to place a small barrier of sandbags with an additional sentry gun turret, consisting of twin mounted MG42 machine guns. Even further behind the sandbags and sentry turret emplacement was a table, with two G43 semi-automatic rifles leaning on the table. Seated around the table, there were three Dwellers: two Dwellers who were part of New Hope’s city guard, and the Silent Orphan, the leader
They used to live together in the woods and they miss being a part of the family that breaks apart when they start to become human. The longing for family binds the wolf girls closer together, as in their minds they have nobody left except themselves to rely on after their parents abandon them. Mirabella refuses to become human as she clenches her hands with “her fists blue-white from strain” (Russell 241). Blue
whenever I talked to him. Whenever he came around, she’d cut her voltage way back and stayed quiet. She wanted me to go ahead and love” (Dunn 280). This is just part of the entangled life of conjoined twins that Katherine Dunn describes in her novel Geek Love. Conjoined twins live every second of their lives as one, which immediately provokes questions about not only intimacy, but more centrally, identity and personhood.
Racialization First off, I loved that the article “Race as Biology is Fiction…” addressed a really important issue right off the bat. It is crazy to me how so many people don’t know that race doesn’t exist. Despite the fact that race does and only exists as a social construct, it does not exist in an actual biological sense, which is something I believe everyone should know. I remember being in middle school when my French teacher told our class that in France they don’t ask a person’s race because it’s not right. My French teacher was the one that first brought it to my attention that there is no such thing as race, that the only race is the human race.
Why has He forsaken me so? I cannot handle it anymore. For the past few weeks Satan himself has eaten me alive from the inside. I have prayed to Him so much, and I thought He would free me of all of this internal combat between Satan and me, but this time Satan has prevailed over me.
Werewolves are creatures that are believed to have been made by a Lunar God of some sort. They begin as humans and have the power to transform themselves into wolves. They can also be identified as “Lycanthropes”(HistoricMystery). There are many different ways one can become a Werewolf. Some ways include being born into it, being cursed with it, or being bitten by a Werewolf.
Blood Brothers I could remember it as if I were to relive my life again. It’s just too bad that I couldn’t change anything that happened. Tree Top Piru Street was where I resided back when I was a high school teenager. The sun burnt my skin as I could see the skin peel as if I were a banana. The scent of carbon roams throughout the atmosphere as local vehicles of the neighborhood zoom past by to beat the rush hour.
“The Fall of the House of Usher,” a gothic fiction short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, is pervaded by multiple examples of post-structuralist philosopher Jacques Derrida’s philosophy of trace. A close examination of the narrative reveals a distinct trace between incestual conception and the current condition of the Usher siblings through the physical and mental hinders which oppress them; a relationship between the occupants of the Usher estate and the trace of themselves which they inflict on the outside of it; and the traces of the author’s personal life within the storyline through the motif of live entombment. Articulated by philosopher Jacques Derrida, the philosophy of trace identifies the relationship between the absent and the presence
When my mother was a wee child, she was adopted. So we don’t really know where this set of twins came from aka Christian and myself. Mom thought at first she grabbed the wrong kids at the hospital, and she might have. Right now I am looking for some answers maybe to tell me whether or not I will be cursed with a set of twins.
I accept the fact that being a twin does make me different and realize that society seems to always look at twins as one. Therefore, I have worked hard making sure people see me as a whole and not half a whole. One of the ways I thought I could accomplish this was for my sister and I to pledge different sororities. It was a scary concept.
Most people have mirrors in their house, the thing about mine is that it moves. Being a twin has shaped the majority of my life, there are a lot of good things about a twin but there are some disadvantages to being a twin. With the good and bad there are always lessons to be learned and chances to grow. Growing up with a best friend has been great, with always having someone there who likes the same things as I do. She has always been there to cause havoc with me, and to this day she is my best friend, we know everything about each other.
When people think of twins, they usually imagine two people looking exactly alike, dressing exactly alike, and completing each other’s sentences. Most imagine having a twin would be wonderful, after all, you could switch classes in school and read each other's mind, what’s not to like? However, most people are completely unaware and insensitive to the struggles of being a twin. Society generally views twins as two people wrapped in one rather than two independent individuals. As a twin myself, I have spent much of my life trying to establish my own identity.
In my opinion, there is only two things in child’s mind: play and eat. That’s what I am doing when I am young, but as I grow up, I realize that life is not only play and eat, there’s more things to do rather than them. In fact I learned not to waste time from what I had lose in my childhood, I don’t know what I had lose. Maybe time with my friends? Relationships with friends?
