Author Archives: 18penzod

Imagine being pressured into doing something you don’t like or agree with. Something you despise and from which you take no advantage. Something that goes against your human instinct. For Paul, that something was to participate in a war. In … Continue reading →

He heard them. The voices were getting louder and louder, and his heartbeat increased with every step. His breath was almost as loud as his pulse. His glasses laid broken on a rock beside him. The absence of his glasses … Continue reading →

When I walked in, it was just a normal day. I was completely oblivious of what was to happen in the next few hours. Halley routinely grabbed a shopping cart and offered me a seat in it, as she always … Continue reading →

In a society where physical and alcohol abuse is the norm, one is immediately set up for failure from the moment of birth. Only the people with the thickest skin can survive. In the novel, Maggie: Girl of the Streets … Continue reading →

Throughout human history, we as people have been faced with moral conflicts and lack of ethics involving our choices and in society. Often we have blindly followed and obeyed the laws within a community or religion without taking any consideration … Continue reading →

When Dolphine woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, she found she changed in her bed into a monstrous parrot. She lay on her back with her claws tangled into the covers. As she tried turn to her side, her … Continue reading →

I spent the first ten years of my life as an only child, having only my mother. During this time, my mom was very young. She became pregnant as a teenager and took the responsibility of raising me on her … Continue reading →

During the 1920s lived the post World War I generation, also known as the Lost Generation which consists of the men and women who survived the Great War. This was an era that consisted of glamorous parties in a society … Continue reading →

After seventeen years of being pushed, whacked, slapped and kicked around like nothing, Paula found herself staring into the eyes of the person she’d become. She went from a strong woman, full of life, to a shrunken bruised soul barely … Continue reading →

  She was gone- vanished like a bug on a windshield. One minute we were all laughing in an empty parking lot, the next we sat silent, staring confused at the empty white hood. Gone. A few moments passed before … Continue reading →