In Dartmouth one night, back in ’25,A dorm room with laughter was fully alive.Ted was the host, just twenty-one,With gin in hand, the mischief begun. Now booze was banned in all the states,But rules, to Ted, were tempting fates.He knew…
One chilly night in London town,In two-thousand-nine as sun went down,A man named Chris, just twenty-three,Went out for food and company. He brought a date to end the night,McDonald’s glowed with yellow light.It wasn’t grand, nor fancy fare,But it was…
In Utah’s cold on a January day,A man named Gary was led the way.To an old food plant, long left to rust,Where silence reigned, and hopes were dust. With guards around on every side,No place to run, nowhere to hide.But…
On an autumn morn in Wichita town,A Russian pilot came around.Sergey Galitzky, aged fifty-four,Walked through a flight simulator’s door. With translator close, he sought that day,To train on a Cessna and earn his pay.Inside the building, vast and wide,Where mock…
At four o’clock on Saturday, the sky was calm and bright,The backyard buzzed with joy and love, hearts glowing with delight.In Knoxville, Iowa, a family stood with cheer,To celebrate a baby soon to grace their lives so near. Pamela, aged…
In fifty-six, September’s end,Young Nyarri walked with childlike friends.Through Maralinga’s desert heat,They stalked the roos in dry retreat. Three brothers from the Martu clan,With spear and boomerang in hand.They hunted not for sport or fame,But for the kin from which…
On April the twenty-second day,In Cumbria’s land, not far away,A father of three, brave Carlo Keefe,Embarked on a journey beyond belief. Adventurous, bold, and full of cheer,He loved to climb and crawl with no fear.This cave he’d known just once…
On the evening of October 27th, 2014, 17-year-old Jesus Maness found himself at Kinloch Park in Miami, Florida, immersed in a fast-paced basketball game with a group of friends. The sun was beginning to set, and the court buzzed with…
On the night of August 20, 2012, two best friends, 19-year-old Rosem and Elizabeth Nass, decided to spend their final evening together before parting ways for college. It had been a golden summer, and with both heading to different states…
On the evening of May 21, 2015, in a quiet neighborhood in Hong Kong, a 16-year-old girl named Lily walked into her home gym expecting an empty space to complete a workout. Instead, she found her father, Dr. Kakim’s Son,…