(so this isn't exactly in line with the promt, but I wanted practice for a sort of narrative essay style because I'm working on my college essays and I don't really know what I'm doing.)

Time capsules are a unique form of preservation. Most forms, whether fossils, or pictures, or diaries, are focused. They capture one shape, or moment, or thought process. A time capsule, however, allows for many ...

When I was young, people always told me I would be a heartbreaker.

It's a common thing, really, to say to a royal. That they'll break many hearts. That they're dashing, swoon-worthy, charming. That they'll surely have a perfect Ever After. So it was never something I registered as any importance.

My teen years, my young adult years, found me wooing and flirting, yes. They found me known for my fo...

I've been drawing the same face since I was a child. A raven-haired woman too tall to guess. She often crowds the paper, bent over like she didn't quite anticipate her inability to fit. And she's always crying. Never the same way. crying, sobbing, weeping, wimpering. Some sad, some angry, some filled with relief. But she's always crying.

She changed as I did. When I broke my arm falling off the sw...

When aliens first came into contact with humans, it went much more civilly than any sci-fy writers or diplomats had expected. To be fair, their predictions were based purely on the human responce, and aliens are anything but.

when they came to earth- or rather, when we first hailed them from the ISS voyager shuttle- they were in awe of us. We were so fragile to them, and they were suprised we were...