Awesomeness from Narrative Essays

1. We were laughing and carrying on, playing music and telling jokes, and trying to write a song.

2. I feel like the bad guy for putting pointed questions in there, like "Is everything alright?" and then signing with a big "I love you, Sebastian" or maybe with a cute nickname that I can't even write right now because it pisses me off.

3. Being new, he drifted around the lunch tables, not knowing where to sit.

4. He towered above me. His thick black combat boots, tan military pants and matching shirt supported his life thesis: To put his work before his family in order to become a higher ranking Navy officer than his father.

5. Racquel had always been a bad influence on me, from the time she convinced me to take all the chocolates out of my advent calendar on the first day of December to the time she forced me to climb the oak tree when she knew I wouldn't be able to get down.

6. Picture this, two eight-year-old girls in flannel nightgowns standing too close to a stove with a flame that is probably turned up too high.

7. I want to walk through Central Park in the snow, wearing boots, a trench coat, leather gloves, a fuzzy scarf and a warm hat over my leotard and tights.

8. I remember feeling invincible, like the hottest chick on Earth; I was Brittney Spears walking the red carpet while all the paparazzi attempted to get their million dollar shot of me. Girls wanted to be me — guys wanted to have me.

9. All I wanted was to run away, to scamper off stage, to no longer see the glaring red lights signaling the recording of hundreds of video cameras in the theater.

10. My father has always colored my life with the strangeness of his words.

11. Right before I reached the bathroom I saw her: Kate Mazzera. Five foot nine, blond, and as beautiful as a sunset on the horizon of an ocean.

12. He was almost like an older brother to me. In fact, that day I was wearing my treasured pink vans that were once his.

13. But the candy was right there on the counter, open to the public, and I didn't mean any harm; our intentions were precocious, mischievous at most, but not criminal.

14. I came from behind him and whispered, "I'll help you."

15. Pillars of multicolored balloons hung off every meter, mailbox, and street lamp.

16. What I was really apologizing for was that I had caused controversy, and my apologies were an attempt to blend back into the woodwork.

17. I failed to notice the slimy red liquid dribbling down my face, spreading onto my fuzzy footed onesie, and pooling on the floor.

18. Six boys and one more gathered in the musk of the Middle School boys' bathroom, the six lathering their serums of peer pressure upon the odd member of the group.

19. Awesome sentence NYT.

20. Awesome example essay.