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Mel's Planet
When the astronomers first spotted it in the sky, thousands of lightyears away, they thought that it was some sort of asteroid. No one really knows how or why it suddenly appeared, only that one day there was an empty patch of black space within the view of the Hubble telescope, and the next there was a mysterious celestial body emitting a piercing blue light. It didn’t take long for the scientists to determine that it was racing toward Earth, so they nicknamed it Mel’s Comet, after the researcher who saw it first.
By Sarah Wernher5 years ago in Psyche
Empty Lives
Everywhere I look I see models. In shop windows, ads online, and as I’m scrolling through Instagram. I see their tan, airbrushed skin, the way their hair falls so perfect, framing their unmarked face. My reflection stares back through the glass and I see the scars from years of acne, a random freckle here and there, the scar in my eyebrow, a dimple that dents my cheek when I smile. I don’t have the bronze, flawless complexion of a model. My skin could be compared to a vampire during the winter and turns flaming red in the summer sun. They don’t have scars or freckles to show that they have done anything but exist in front of a camera.
By Sydney Weaver5 years ago in Psyche
Ships in Bottles
Abby never gave much thought to how her life would end. She was, afterall, only 16...she only knew that she would not mind if it ended sooner rather later. 16 years would not seem like the time to think of death, not to most people anyway. But Abby already lived a lifetime. A lifetime of pain and abandoment. Her best years, her ONLY good years, were those spent with Papa Mac.
By Patti Marrs Magill5 years ago in Psyche
Music That Saved Me
It was my first day of high school, I was in a boarding school in Salem, Oregon. Anyways, I was with my older siblings while I was out there, my mother didn't want me to be out of their sight but they basically ditched me when they got their schedules and I was on my own. Before that though we had to be in the cafeteria to get our schedules, I was standing with my siblings to be able to find our last name initial. Once we heard W, we went to the staff that had our schedules and once we got them. we head to the hallways and that was when they left. I was standing in the hallway lost because the very first class I had to go to was Full Circle. I didn't know what that meant so I was walking around trying to ask anyone around me but I was shy I felt very quiet. Until I saw a staff and asked them where that class was and that was when they told me that it was in an old music room, I didn't know where that was since I was a Freshman. Before the bell rung, I had to ask another staff and that was when she told me that she was heading to the same class and she told me to follow her.
By Tyanna Willie5 years ago in Psyche
Regretting Regretting. Top Story - April 2021.
My biggest regret is spending so much time regretting. Oh sure I can list oh so many cringeworthy moments. Mishaps with bodily functions. Bra straps showing. Green food in teeth. Colossal errors in people’s names, especially when in front of fifty people I’ve mixed up Mr. Chiang with Mr. Lee, or Ms. Gomez with Ms. Fuentes. All the times I didn’t listen – I thought he was joking when he said the price tag was showing on my hat that I went on to wear for months. All the times I was unintentionally cruel. Or cruel out of my own indecisiveness. All the times I was careless or lazy – why did I wreck that guy’s performance by not learning the words and harmony to the song we were singing together? All the times I laughed too loud and kept repeating the same lame remark. Or did I? Was I just carefree and fun? Oh, the rumination.
By Ida Verity5 years ago in Psyche
Life...am I Right?
Life is interesting and mysterious. Often times I find myself questioning the reality of it. Is this really how things are happening? Am I really here? Is this nothing but a very vivid dream? Think about what we know about dreams. Not very often do we have control over our dreams. Unsure of what is about to happen. The ending never really known. Life is quite similar in that respect. Sometimes in our everyday lives things happen that seem impossible, miraculous, or unreal. Again, quite similar to dreams. So how are we truly able to know, if the life we are living; our current present. Is something we are actually experiencing?
By Paige Lauscher5 years ago in Psyche
Garden Therapy
After having not really taken any notice of our gardens front, side, or back, over the past ten years of living within Bournemouth, it came as a disturbing shock to note that, over the time we had been in our home, it was beginning to resemble the forest that this area used to be much akin to looking many hundreds of years earlier in time. Nature indeed did seem to be chucking out a great big 'Hi there, I'm still here, are you, what about coming to see me at some point, you know, if you are not too busy huh?'
By Jonathan Townend5 years ago in Psyche
Young People and Alcohol Alcohol Treatment Centers in Pune
Adolescents who begin drinking alcohol before age 14 have a nearly 50% risk of becoming alcohol dependent in adulthood. A study published July, 2006, early drinking as a predictor of alcohol dependence in adulthood.
By Satish Patil5 years ago in Psyche
