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• Fiction > Romance
  Stricken

  

  By eehearn2011, Lake Wales, FL

  I was stricken by your smile, by the first sight of you. So stricken by your laugh, I didn't know such a euphoric sound could possibly escape someone who was equally as beautiful. I was so stricken it stopped me in my tracks. Stricken by the warmth of your imposing hands, comforted by your secu...
• Nonfiction > All Nonfiction
  Meaning of Community Service

  

  By eehearn2011, Lake Wales, FL

  The service one provides for other individuals is futile if it does not improve the volunteer's life as well as the recipient's life. The underlying concept of community service is not designed for one to simply improve an impoverished life or augment the quality of deteriorated circumstan...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Look Twice

  

  By eehearn2011, Lake Wales, FL

  I knew that look I have seen it before You looked at me once But I had to look twice I knew that look in your eyes You were knowledgeable, yet naive open, yet scared You wanted to know me, to hold me, to see me and talk to me But no matter what we said We knew it would not work. You ...
• Poetry > Sonnet
  Missed

  

  By eehearn2011, Lake Wales, FL

  You were the best wish ever granted, Our goodbye was so unplanned. I didn't know there would be a day without your face, At the time there was no way to be braced for a moment Without your presence, Without your smile. The Last Days spent together were so worthwhile. You offered your hand...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Reinforcing Words, Answered Questions

  

  By eehearn2011, Lake Wales, FL

  Homework, senior portraits, football games, going to haunted houses with friends, college visits, and application deadlines-this is what I expected from my October. I did not expect the phone call that would change everything. The call that brought me to my knees, the call that robbed me of my breat...