Novel Lessons
April 24, 2018
Ever since I was young I've had a dream — a dream that I tried countless times to accomplish but never did. That dream was to write a novel. Sixty-two thousand, three hundred and fifty-five words later, it became reality. My characters have become real to me, the long hours that I stared at my comp...
Paperclips
April 11, 2018
Paperclips are binding me at the hips, I look up to you and see your lips Quivering at the very sight of me. My heart was pounding as if my body was Boundless. You, Were paperless, you never hurt Anybody. While I hurt Everybody. I was just trying to help But I can’t help but leave...
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April 10, 2018
I was in love with the way you looked at me. But now the only thing you do is talk at me. Why was it so hard to just @ me? I felt like a secret but at least I was one worth keeping. The pain is creeping out. The tears are coming down like the rain outside. I look at the empty driveway Hoping ...
The Truth About Loneliness
April 9, 2018
What causes the feeling of loneliness? Is it the lack of people around? Is it the way that you’re treated? Is it an absence of care or love? Everyone gets this feeling at one point, all for varying reasons. Reasons that make sense. Valid, recognizable reasons. So tell me, why is it I’m gettin...
A Red Wind, Part II
March 21, 2018
In all of my life, I’d never cared as little as I did now. The shackles that bound my wrists and ankles were cold, but I couldn’t feel a thing. The conversations that surrounded me were a dull hum to my ears. I had traveled over three million miles through space without saying a single word to the...
Loudly and Proudly: Julia Clark Describes her Missions Trip to Africa
March 8, 2018
The sun began to rise at 6:25 in the morning, painting the sky in hues of lavender and rose. A crisp air nipped at my shoulders, the smell of dirt and grass carried in the wind. The beauty of Africa was overwhelming. On Feb. 10, my amazing missions team and I were planning to visit a school in Amur...
We Move On
February 28, 2018
We walk down the hallways every day with other kids who once hurt our feelings and we scroll through Instagram liking posts of boys or girls who broke our hearts. Their words and actions are carried on our shoulders. And with every tear we promised to never let them back into our lives, but when we do,...
I of the Ruin
February 22, 2018
She did not dare to look at the mess she’d made. She couldn’t bear to. Washed out, strewn across the floor, piles and piles of splinters and pieces of things torn apart, shattered, snapped. These were the remnants of the promises he’d made and the fury she’d unleashed when he broke them. These w...
Of Sonnets and Such Poetic Nonsense and Other Poems
February 9, 2018
Of Sonnets and Such Poetic Nonsense (Gold Key, 2018 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards) the lit homework is to write a sonnet for the person sitting next to you but I don’t know what to write about the only thing that comes to mind is ‘oozing volcanoes of acne’ and ‘vei...
New Venus
February 7, 2018
The darkness enveloped the small pocket of light that surrounded him as he ran down the narrow tunnel. The shadows encroached on his bubble of life, pursuing closely behind, always staying just barely out of reach, but never leaving. The shadows never left you here. Even in the capital, New Venus,...
Blackberry High Tide: Lessons from My Grandma
January 12, 2018
I was five years old the first time I stepped into my mother’s hometown, where my grandma raised her. To my wide eyes and innocent smile, Coos Bay was something straight out of a daydream. For years, there was nothing I looked forward to more than the 15-hour drive to my grandmother’s open heart a...
Home at 5:57
December 19, 2017
The scented candle’s aroma filled the room. Ellis Lark set down a book and grabbed the brown coat that had slept the night on the coat hanger. It was two sizes too large, but a great bargain nonetheless. His feet ached from the shoes that pinched, and the cold watch on his arm was like the icy weather...
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