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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “snapshot” was first used in 1808 by an English sportsman named Sir Andrew Hawker. He noted in his diary that almost every bird he shot that day was taken by snapshot. Meaning a hurried shot, taken without deliberate aim. “Snapshot” then, was originally a hunting term.

I was in the kitchen fixing ( Read more... )

I was sitting in Astronomy class when I started getting that peculiar feeling again. It feels like a sudden broader sense of awareness. Not just self awareness, total awareness. We were all sitting there listening to this professor try to explain to us the immense rhythms of the universe. He had the audacity to scribble out equations to quantify it ( Read more... )

It’s funny how I can be around so many people for hours and sometimes hardly say a word. It’s funny to barely know anyone again. It’s even funnier that I couldn’t care less.

I won’t pretend I don’t notice. People can be very concerned about their looks and what emblems they choose to wear to communicate nonverbally. There are an awful lot of pretty ( Read more... )

The flag vendor was an old Scotsman. When I asked him if he had the version of the American flag with the circle of 13 stars he didn’t even blink. Oh the Betsy Ross? That’s 12 dollars, he said in a terrific Scottish accent. He certainly knew his product. I took it home and pondered over my new purchase. I sat with it in my lap, Betsy Ross style.

I ( Read more... )

TheFlFTHDENTlST (12:24:11 AM): im reading it now...its not all that good
TheFlFTHDENTlST (12:24:18 AM): its wishy washy
TheFlFTHDENTlST (12:24:30 AM): its a fucking school paper
skareoo (12:25:45 AM): its not even a big deal
skareoo (12:26:25 AM): if you feel the need you can always re write some of it for personal benefit..or just never look at it ( Read more... )

There is a girl named Alexandra in three of my classes. In every class it’s a different Alexandra. There is also another Alexandra who recently joined the poetry club at MCC. In all my life I’ve never known a single Alexandra. Now I know 4. They all have this same sort of stoic toughness that seems very beautiful to me. Well I had to take note of ( Read more... )

Think of your writing as the barrel of the gun. Think of your message as the bullet. The longer the writing(barrel) is, the more accurate the message(bullet). But the longer it takes the message to leave the barrel, the more friction it causes and the slower the message will travel.

A bullet(message) fired from a short barrel(writing) will be less ( Read more... )

>In Comes Chance
        I remember my mother when she was dying. She was all withered and gray. I asked her if she was afraid. She just shook her head.

I was afraid to touch the death I saw in her. I couldn't find anything beautiful or uplifting about her going back to god. People talk about immortality. I havn't seen it.

I wondered what it ( Read more... )

Each time i write part of this story i write it as though it is it's own story...therefore every short piece is it's own beginning middle and end.

TRex

uCpl. Chris Felix

I hated it over there. I thought maybe it would be better than working in some nine- to -five- shit-hole- for -8 -dollars- an -hour. I thought maybe if I went over there I would count ( Read more... )