Somewhere between here and there I rolled down my manual car window on the driver’s side, and let the swift wind flow like a course river into my little Chevy Cobalt. I speed along passing the Oak trees on the side of some lonely freeway. My foot slowly falls against the gas pedal throttling [...]
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Go Get Lost
“We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” Pico Iyer I dragged my large suitcase off of the airport’s [...]
The 95
I jogged out of the newsroom with my briefcase at my side and didn’t look back. I was knee deep in the biggest story I have ever been involved in, and I still couldn’t even get the nod of approval from my editor. Money that was stolen and became tied up in the local government’s [...]
The Real Trouble With Parking On Campus
“As of 2013, there were a total of 8,640 student parking spaces on campus…Enrollment for the fall 2013 semester was 38,325,” according to information gathered by The Daily Titan. After looking at the numbers one sees that there clearly is an issue. The campus is aware that The Daily Titan has covered the topic of [...]
Shock Wave: Part 25- The End
Catch up before you continue on with the story. “That’s it,” Cindy said looking out at the tall Oregon trees stretching out in front of us along the road. “Wait what?” “That’s the story.” “You must be joking,” I said. “Did they at least get away?” “They did.” “How, what happened?” “That’s what we’re going [...]
A Long Week
There were meetings scheduled throughout the course of Monday and Tuesday that had filled up my days like the flood of liquid spilling out from the over watered decorative pot with the dead plant in my mother’s kitchen. It was clear that the dried brown leaves falling out of formation that were once all tied [...]
Shock Wave: Part 19- I Listened
Catch up before you continue on with the story. Cindy and I woke up the next morning and left the small motel in the town of Tracy behind after fueling up the gas tank and our bodies at what seemed like the town’s only gas station. We had roughly six hours left, of driving through [...]
Shock Wave: Part 16- Big Sky Country
Catch up before you continue on with the story. “Tell me a little about yourself,” I asked the hitchhiker lying in the motel bed next to mine. I had met Cindy that morning and traveled with her for that entire day but I didn’t really know anything about her. “I suppose I could give you [...]
Shock Wave: Part 13- Remember Who To Trust
Catch up before you continue on with the story. The plan was incredibly simple. Slip outside the house while her husband was sleeping and sneak into Dr. Aislinn’s office in town to look for some answers to her past and possible help restore her memory completely. The problem, however, was her ability to actually pull [...]
Shock Wave: Part 12- The Old Chevy Pickup
Catch up before you continue on with the story. An attractive woman with short blonde hair wearing jeans and a white button up t-shirt that was two sizes too big sat before Sarah in a car. “Ready?” The woman said to Sarah as she threw the old blue Chevy pickup truck into gear. “Yes,” Sarah [...]
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