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EXPRESSIONS 2016 Would Like to Thank All of the Students Who Submitted Work for Consideration to EXPRESSIONS 2016 This Semester 2 Member of The Texas State University System™ Spring 2016 Volume XXX 3 Visit 2016 Online @ www.lamarpa.edu 1. Home Page 2. Quick Links 3. Campus Publications 4 Table of Contents Short Story Lugo, Pedro… ............................................................................................................. 11 1st Place Banda, Antonio .......................................................................................................... 14 2nd Place Wilmore, Vincent… .................................................................................................. 18 3rd Place Mercado, Silvia .......................................................................................................... 22 Honorable Mention Strickland, Danny… ................................................................................................. 25 Honorable Mention Essay Cao Jr., Peter………………………………………………………………………28 1st Place Ben-David, J. Amir ..................................................................................................... 31 2nd Place Jones, Timothy ............................................................................................................ 34 3rd Place James, Michael…………………………………………………………….……..36 Honorable Mention Holliday, Clifton T ..................................................................................................... 39 Honorable Mention Strickland, Danny… ................................................................................................. 41 Honorable Mention Tran, Tien .................................................................................................................... 44 Honorable Mention 5 Book Review Reynolds, Colton… .................................................................................................. 46 1st Place Davis, Arthur ............................................................................................................ 50 2nd Place Davis, Arthur ............................................................................................................ 53 3rd Place Blankenship, Thomas ................................................................................................ 57 Honorable Mention Brocks, Rayshaun ..................................................................................................... 60 Honorable Mention Literary Critique Grado, Karissa .......................................................................................................... 64 1st Place Fosdick, Laura .......................................................................................................... 68 2nd Place Jackson, Shelvin… ................................................................................................... 74 3rd Place Poetry Abshire, Stephanie… ............................................................................................... 76 1st Place Salinas, Michael… .................................................................................................. 78 3rd Place Jones, Timothy Allen ................................................................................................ 79 Honorable Mention Hughes, Clarence ..................................................................................................... 81 Honorable Mention Martin, Geoffrey… ................................................................................................. 82 Honorable Mention 6 Porras, Skyler ............................................................................................................ 85 Honorable Mention Barrientos, Paola ....................................................................................................... 88 Honorable Mention Lugo, Pedro… ........................................................................................................... 91 Honorable Mention Photography Day, Ashlan ............................................................................................................... 13 1st Place Segura, Kristi… ......................................................................................................... 24 2nd Place Washburn, Caitlin .................................................................................................... 30 3rd Place General Art Banda, Antonio… ..................................................................................................... 10 1st Place Porras, Skyler ............................................................................................................ 21 2nd Place Gomez, Hector X… .............................................................................................. 27 3rd Place Banda, Antonio… ..................................................................................................... 38 Honorable Mention Hussey, Christopher ................................................................................................... 43 Honorable Mention Cervantes, Anthony… ............................................................................................... 49 Honorable Mention Tran, Dustin .............................................................................................................. 56 7 Salinas, Michael… ............................................................................................................ 63 Honorable Mention Anderson, D’angelo… ............................................................................................... 73 Honorable Mention Cover Art Gomez, Hector X………………………………………………….…………..…….Front Page 1st Place Ortiz, Abigail… ........................................................................................................... 17 2nd Place Tran, Dustin ................................................................................................................. 33 3rd Place Porras, Skyler ............................................................................................................... 77 Honorable Mention Lugo, Pedro… .............................................................................................................. 80 Honorable Mention Sauceda, Javier ............................................................................................................ 84 Honorable Mention Ramirez, Ralando… .................................................................................................... 87 Honorable Mention Sauceda, Javier ............................................................................................................ 90 Honorable Mention Faculty Ellis, Donna………………………………..…….….94, 98, 100,101,103, 105 Belyeu, Chad ........................................................................................................... 95 Davis, Eursala ............................................................................................................. 97 Dickert, Gary….......................................................................................................... 99 Judice, Michelle ........................................................................................................ 104 Byrd, Sally………………………………………………………….106, 109 Lowe,Zebulon………………..………………………………...111, 113, 115 Peeler, Robert… ......................................................................................... 117—120 8 9 1st Place General Art Antonio Banda 10 1st Place Short Story The Shiny Little Cross Pedro Lugo Staring into his eyes, I could see the pain he was holding back in tears. Sitting there, motionless, I could not understand why this man I barely knew would share his horrific sto- ry with me. “I don’t even know why I asked for the keys ---, I didn’t even know how to drive,” he stared blankly into a memory. “Prepare for chow,” a prison guard yelled, bringing us both out of a reverie that held us bound. Later that day, sitting on the floor with my back against the wall outside the door of my cell, I wondered if I could ever be forgiven by the families of my victims. Hesitating to open my little worn out New Testament, I scanned the day-room, and there he was, sitting on a stainless steel table, looking up at a TV mounted on the wall. He wore a white muscle tee- shirt, exposing tattoos that could barely be seen due to his dark colored skin. That was when I noticed the cross on his arm that look all too familiar. I finally opened my pocket Testament and read a scripture where Jesus spoke of for- giveness. “I can’t Lord,” I whispered to God under my breath. “Yes you can,” He replied, “I forgave you.” Closing my eyes and leaning my head back, I relived the story I saw through the eyes of a killer. I saw them first invading some luckless woman’s home, making their way back into a parking-lot with her belongings, including the keys to her car. Not knowing how to drive a standard, his partner in crime could not get them out of first gear. Suddenly, a man in a white truck pulled up and cursed at them through the crack of the passenger window -- a “hero.” Getting out of the car, the killer fired off a buck-shot, bursting that window. Watch- ing intently, his other two crime partners stay in a get-away car parked nearby. Before the 11 smoke cleared from the barrel of the gun, both the “hero” and the killer’s two partners were gone, fleeing off into the night. “So there I was,” he said, “alone and running on foot with a shotgun and a purse when I encountered a couple carrying grocery bags they had just gotten out of their trunk. I point- ed the shotgun
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