Timely Action_HAGS_Henry's Room_Saving Stars
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Timely Action
Fall, 1988It was a beautiful fall day. The crowd was huddled up in their warm coats and looking forward to the promise of hot apple cider and apple pie after the ceremony. The mayor went up on stage to a round of applause. “Fifty years ago, this town placed a time capsule in the middle of Town Square to celebrate Bloomsburg’s 100th anniversary. Today, we celebrate our fine town with a beautiful fall festival, parade, and fireworks. Welcome to Bloomsburg’s 150th anniversary!” The crowd all clapped and cheered. “Now, it is time to open the time capsule. Walter, if you please.” Walter and anothe...
HAGS
Facebook was useful; it showed me exactly what I did not want to know. I followed everyone from my past, but only to avoid truly actually interacting with them.Mentally I knew that the reunion was coming up. Doing the math was easy, For I knew how long ago I graduated high school. That by no means meant that I was excited. I was not one of those that dreamed of reliving the glory days, if any one peaked in high school they had failed at life. How sad would it be to hit your best at eighteen. You are giving up on life before it fully begins.I believed in looking ahead, finding now ways to succe...
Henry's Room
Henry had waited all afternoon for his aunt to take the children away. Now she had, but the hour was late and his mind remained on the clock as he hurried upstairs. Behind him, from down in the dining room, his grandmother called for him to bring down two more tablecloths from the linen closet. "Can you just wait a minute?" he grumbled. After a full day of scrubbing floors and washing windows, following one order after another, he just wanted to be clear of it all and to do the one last job that remained, and then to sit on his bed alone for a few minutes. The house would be full soon, and hot...
Saving Stars
The night sky, littered with stars, never felt so vast and never appeared to shine so beautifully as it did tonight. Each star glistening against the endlessly dark backdrop. Not to mention, the moon was the brightest it has been in what seems like months. The sight as a whole was, for lack of better word, astronomically breathtaking.“The sky is so beautiful to watch tonight, but why do I feel so small?” asked the young woman laying down on the soft red and white picnic blanket next to him. “Makeswww.onedoor.cc me think of how small we are in this universe….Do you ever think about how insignificant we are?...