Delta Winds: A Magazine of Student
Essays A Publication of San Joaquin Delta
College
2006
Pull Quotes
The Dead "Do you see any snakes yet?"
Rebekah, my oldest sister called down. I looked around.
A True Story of National Security Another guard was referencing security
tapes--watching how I had walked through the metal detectors--and
pointing out inconsistencies in my facial expression and walking
speed.
Lemons, Loss, and Lemonade Those patterns, securities, and stabilities
are the foundations of our lives. When and if this way of life
is changed, it throws off and disrupts everything we have grown
to believe and trust in.
Last Hour His skin looked weathered, and wrinkles
plotted their twisting course down his soft cheeks.
The Designer Player The main opponents against the use of
steroids are those that say using is an attack on baseball's
integrity. . . . My answer is simply to wake up.
The Poker Nation Unlike a majority of the biggest sports
in the world, poker requires no physical exertion. Basically
if you can breathe and sit for a long time in one place you can
play.
Our Wardrobes Our own personal style and dress are important
and, whether we like it or not, they play a vital role in the
way we perceive ourselves and in the way others perceive us.
Divorce Minutes later he was holding me by the
neck, glaring at me with eyes that seemed to burn with fire,
and said, "First I am going to kill you, and then I am going
to kill him!"
Who Was That Guy? So the soldiers were flying all over the
plane while the rest of us held white-knuckled onto the benches.
Gardenia Apparently, my cologne's scent was so
intense that you would not notice a skunk if it waddled right
in front of you.
Sylvia Plath Her poetry speaks with a vibrancy and
clarity that is at once thoroughly modern and ancient, and its
beauty is what she should be remembered for.