She flys down the court
Basket in sight
Dribbling madly
She stops at the 3 point line
Time seems to slow
Seconds creep by
Feet set
Arms up and ready
Knees bent as she springs of the floor
The ball soars through the air
It licks the rim
As it cascades through the net
The buzzer screeches the sound of the end of the game
They’d won by one point
It ended in fame

Tantalizing smell of the ocean calling me
Heavenly coasts that go on for miles
Everlasting joy as we reales balloons with glow sticks into the warm dark air

Beloved friends racing the waves
Eccentric gazes as me watch seagulls glide by our condo windows
Ablaze were our hearts as we sat in the shallow water
Classy restaurants to dine at
Hackneyed (worn-out) children finally wrangled in to the car good bye beach good bye summer

I’m large couches and Coca-Cola and Kleenex tissues

I’m from a redbrick paradise I call home

I’m from the smell of fresh baked cookies wafting through the house when I come home from school.

I’m from the white gardenias that grow in the backyard

I’m from the big oak tree in the front yard who’s long limbs I remember climbing on till the sun went down.

I’m from grandpa’s home on Thanksgiving

I’m blue eyes

I’m from Christine and Trey

I’m from watching Christmas vacation every year

I’m from sitting by the fire when its cold

I’m from Friday night football games that we go to just for half time

I’m from being being being tall and always finding the humor and things
and Jesus loves me

I am from the girls beach trip in the summer.

I’m from Austin and I am I am a Texan through and through

I’m from chocolate pie and potato soup

From Christine passing out after getting bit by her gerbil and hitting her head on the bathtub .

I’m from long forgotten pictures of faraway times in untouched dusty photo albums sitting lifelessly in closed cabinets.

By Elizabeth Jackson

Every Halloween is a big deal for my family we have a very crowded and crazy neighborhood on Halloween. We put up and down ourdecorations all in one day. Our decorations are very kid friendly and not gory.Are decorations are still meticulous and elaborate and take a lot of effort to put together because we use sound and have light. And things flying through the air on gears. normally we have a 12 x 10 foot screen but this year we just had a small one in our yard even though that was smaller we still spent the entire afternoon setting up for our production of Halloween after we finished setting up me and my friend Stephanie that I was going trick or treating with left to trick or treat and when we came back we had run out of our 500 pieces of candy that shows how many people we had that here even know we had a a lot more people last year. Even though we had much less people it still amazes me at how many people showed up.

Me and my dad recently went to ACL for a fun dad daughter trip and because my dad was a crew chief because he is the boss of j Squared the company that provides all the energy for ACL that means him and me both got in free even know neither of us actually had to work the entire weekend. The best part was having a crew badge which let me go anywhere I wanted including The VIP section even though we could go to the VIP section my favorite was still the media area where all the people from the radio stations and other media went . That was my favorite place to hang out because there were many giant shade tree to sit under and they had giant buckets of a really good sweet iced tea. The other great things about that weekend were the obvious that we got to see many great bands ranging from my favorite fun. To Muse and things like to depche mode which my dad knew from the 80s. Even though we did not get to go on Sunday I still had tons of fun.And I can’t wait to go next year.

The thing that stares back creeps out it’s hiding spot in the darkness
It’s eyes dares me to move but I’m frozen in shock
This couldn’t be happening
Your whole reality unraveling
It’s speaks to you now in a rasping voice “leave now”
The wood paneling creaks as you run bear feet down the hall
Not second thought you run and run and run not stoping

You here a slight shuffle under the bed
Ohh it just the cat you think in your head
The light flickers on
All your calmness gone
Your turn your head slowly to face the wall
You shiver under your think blankets in the cold of fall
You never fall back to sleep
Laying there in a frightened heap
When morning finally comes
Your heart is beating louder than a drum
Soon comes night
You lay there in fright
You decide to face your fears
You race off your bed
You stare under your bed into pitch blackness there seems to be nothing there but dust bunnies but wait right there a pair of yellow eyes stare back at you.

They sit atop your head in on going dissary

They match every outfit

Each and every day

They are effortlessly chic

There comfortable in every way

Whether brushed or not

They never require hair spray

This is why I will always love my messy buns !

On top of the couch
Below the sunshine
Around the food bowl
By the laser pointer
Within the shrubs
Underneath the bed
Atop my feet
Among the grass
Cats
By Elizabeth Jackson & Kira Casey

I have been learning how to play bass clarinet in band I’ve been playing for about 3 or 4 months now.Its been hard adjusting to the bass clarinet after playing the regular clarinet for a year now. Most people don’t know what a bass clarinet is it is basically a giant black and silver saxophone with keys like a clarinet. It also plays extremely low notes that resonate out of the bell. Some bass clarinets have keys all the way down to low d flat sadly mine only goes down to e flat.