Her tears first started after she bit an apple. The instructions were to not eat from the Tree of Knowledge. She was deceived by a lurker in the grass and flipped the Earth on its head. As she left the beautiful green garden, her tears sunk into the grasses giving it and everything else life. Her tears poured out like a tsunami when her son murdered his brother over envy. Her ears and eyes cried when she heard the screams of her daughters bearing new life. No one cared about her tears as s

When baby girl first bloomed, her hair was slicked down on all sides of her little head. No products were used on her hair quite yet and she was as naturally beautiful as the Her hair was as delicate as her baby skin but that didn’t stop it from becoming a nest of smooth curls. She was a happy and vibrant baby but her hair grew at a fast rate. Her mother often used a small brush to make her baby’s curls look “neater” as if baby girl cared. A pink, yellow, or red bow would be placed in the m

Normally I don’t dress up for Halloween but this year will be different. I plan on going to a Trunk or Treat on Saturday and I know that people usually wear costumes to those. One of my friends that’s going is going to be a fairy and she suggested that I get a fairy costume so we could match. If I couldn’t find a fairy costume, I planned to be a witch, a cat, or wear an animal onesie. There was a costume store in the old Sears building called Spirit Halloween so I planned to start my search ther

One of my favorite quotes is, “The realest people don’t have a lot of friends,” by Tupac Shakur. When I read that quote for the first time, I instantly related it to myself. When I got to high school I had lots of friends, but as time went on I realized a lot of them had faded away. I was confident that the few people that I did have around me genuinely cared about me and wanted what was best for me. Furthermore, those people were the ones who were meant to be in my life versus the ones who I’d

Community service can be defined as voluntary work intended to help people in a particular area. Generally, community service is unpaid and this can deter a lot of people from doing this unless it’s actually required. To Port Wentworth resident, Mrs. Sheila Durdley, the pay is not important. Mrs. Durdley is a native of Dunn, North Carolina. She earned a Certificate as a Child Care Specialist and she also has a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology as well as a minor in Christian Counseling. For the p

Mass shootings are a tragic and unfortunately common occurrence here in the United States. Oftentimes when mass shootings occur, the name of the shooter is not immediately released. In the wake of the mass shootings that occurred recently, this urged local filmmaker, Kewaan Drayton, to make a short film with mass shootings as the focus. Drayton is the Co-Owner/Executive Producer at Red Eye Film Productions, a small independent production company based here in Savannah, GA. Drayton started the f