.... be home again. The next day I was able to enroll in the same grade as my friends and I couldn't wait to hang out with them once again. I went to my class and the teacher set me down with an old friend of mine. She didn't even want to look at me. I tried to explain who I was but she stubbornly turned around and whispered something to the person next to her. "What is going on here?" I asked my self, I knew I wasn't welcomed back. With a child's mind that I had, I still had hope of being welcomed by my best friend. I was going to see her after school at the same bench that we all use to sit a .....

.... dodged, body swayed, as he danced on his toes, shooting lefts and rights at an imaginary opponent. His scarred face looked troubled for a moment. "Coulda been the Champ. Didn' get a chance. Said I don' got the killer instinct. I know I got it. Jus' need a chance." His audience nodded appreciatively and exchanged understanding glances. Billy shuffled to a stop and shook his big head as a huge grin split his battered face. "No use cryin' over spilt milk. That was a long time ago. Yeah man, a long time ago. He extended a large paw and shook each person's hand solemnly. "Jus' call me Black Billy .....

.... was remarkably pleasant, although his eyes looked as if they belonged to a forty year old man and not a seventeen year old boy. His tan skin and wide smile seemed out of place when one took in Amir's mohawk and torn black t-shirt. "It's a handicap spot." "Exactly," Amir said with a smirk. "I got you in my car, and you're a retard." "Fuck you," Aaron said, "I'll blast you Sylvester Stallone style." Amir burst into hysterical laughter. "You watch too much television." Aaron shrugged and slowly exhaled through his nose, decorated with a silver hoop ring through his septum (also sel .....

.... We sat there and watched it and when it was done I was in awe. All I could say was “that is the best movie in history!” In my mind, the movie was perfect. It was full of everything that I like in a movie. It had mystery, suspense, and most of all it was a thriller. I got to try to figure out who the killer was and as it turned out, there was actually two killers which made it even better. Another thing that was good about it was that you never knew what was going to happen. There were so many different parts in the movie where I had no clue what was going to happen or who was hidin .....

.... to sleep but you’re in my way grunt”. So Dawn scooted over and Billy lay down with his hind legs out to the side, his nose on her lap, and fell asleep. Dawn wondered why she had agreed to visit her mother and her mother’ s family in Iraq? Dawn’s mother had returned to her native homeland of Iraq when Dawn was seven years old. She has kept in touch by writing, but it’s not the same as seeing her mother’s loving smile and feeling her warm presence. In her mother’s last letter, she asked Dawn to come to her home in Mosul. Dawn didn’t know her mother’s family but knew .....

.... hands. A very faint metallic odour met him as he bent down, but he did not notice it as his nose had long become insensitive. The Elder shook his hands dry and glanced up at the position of the sun. It was high overhead, indicating noontime. He sighed, knowing that in a couple of hours his son would bring his family from Toronto to visit him. He did not like his son very much, but he put up with the annual visits for the sake of the grandchildren: he was their only link to their heritage. For one month a year he would show them how their ancestors lived. How he lives. H .....

.... our team had no current national players. In the dressing room, I found all of my teammates already preparing for the game. The room was small and poorly lit. The captain was taking us through all kinds of stretching exercises. Everyone else was quiet, their faces reflecting concentration on the game ahead. Suddenly the coach started to announce the starting eleven. My name was announced first. The silence was punctuated by applause. I was watching to see if anyone showed concern; I did not detect any. The applause continued for every member of the starting team. The room was getting ho .....

.... the small shaded streets of Prince Rupert. "Billy, Billy!" Henry yelled. Snapping out of his dream world Billy relied "What?" "Go down town and pick up some eggs would ya?" "Yeah sure Dad." As he walked down the street Billy pondered if he was really doing the right thing. He had convinced himself that since Christmas was the time for giving and he was just getting a little extra cash so he could give some more to his girlfriend; he was doing the right thing. As he looked around the normal hang out spots like the barber shop, he noticed the grim look on all the ol .....

.... for tourists with luxuries architectural buildings and beautiful surroundings. Also, it possesses many, many natural and agricultural resources which can be of great use. At present, India is destroying both of these great features. We WANT INDIA to acknowledge the harm they have done to, and indeed, take proper responsibility! They have damaged property which they have not even yet claimed. They have killed hundreds of men and women. They are destroying both our and their society, and we want them to STOP! This, ladies and gentlemen, is absorb. We, The Republic of Pakistan, on the oth .....

.... first chance to show my friends and family that I was good at karate was in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in a public school. I was so nervous about this tournament I felt sick. Well it was my time to shine, and shine I did. In the peewee division for my first event I had to display my form. I did every step of my form so precisely and well, that I beat everyone in my group and won first place. The next event was fighting. I was a little scared, but, looking at my father's face, I couldn't let him down. I beat my first three opponents with no problem. It all came down to the fight .....