Vampire Vocab

People say: “Change makes the world go round”. Actually, gravity does. People say: “Change you can believe in”. Well, I believe it happens. People ask: “Do you have any spare change?” If I do, I give it to them, assuming they mean coins. Because “change” doesn’t just lie around, it changes things. Duh. People say: [...]

A few months back, My language arts teacher announced our poetry unit, where we would have to write ten poems on a variety of mandatory and optional subjects. As an overachiever, I decided “Why don’t I start now?” because, as an awful poet, I expected to make a lot of revisions. We never got around [...]

Last night I had an interesting dream that, for once, wasn’t scary, or confusing, or creepy. It was actually kind of nice. So here goes: I sat in history class, listening to Mr. L drone on about something I don’t care about, while Ms. D smiles and nods like he’s saying something profound. I connect [...]

I look out my window, and pull it open. Hear the squeal as it slides along its track. It doesn’t matter. Because finally, finally, there is a smell in the air. And it’s warm. People equate spring with flowers, but the smell is nothing so heinously stereotyped. The smell of spring is the smell of [...]

We were doing Round Robin, a game where we create a story as an ensemble, in my theater class at Piven. One story we told stuck out to me so, as I am prone to do, I am going to post it. I didn’t name the characters, by the way. Otherwise, the main characters name [...]

Last night I had a dream that was really weird dream. I dreamed that the vampire Constantine and I were in Paris and…well, let’s start from the beginning.   I went to theater class, mentally reviewing what I might be doing that day. When I stepped into the class room, I knew something was wrong, [...]

Alice-Marie knows a little bit about her story now. She says it might be about an unpopular girl, an outcast, but past that she lost. So, this edition of “My Friend Alice-Marie” will be dedicated to…reasons to be an outcast! Most people are outcast because they are what society refers to as “weird”. There are [...]

Have you ever had a really weird dream that you totally don’t understand? They’re great short story fodder! If I ever have a weird dream, I might post it under the title Odd Dreams, so look out, because it’s about to get really freaky. I’ll start with last nights dream.   i wandered through the [...]

I’m so proud of Alice-marie. She’s writing a book! So I’m just taking this space to do “writing prompts” like you get when your teacher wants you to write about something specific. Sometimes, to find a really good idea, something has to really strike you, like true love. Does anybody believe in love at first [...]

Jane finished her grocery shopping, cradling Sarah to her chest with one arm, pushing the cart with the other. She puts her items on the belt, and as the cashier rings them up, she rummages around in her purse, looking for her wallet. She finds it, and, in triumphantly pulling it out, pulls her amulet [...]