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  Where I'm From

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  I come from a small town, which seems to get smaller and smaller with every passing moment. I'm from a house That never really felt like home. From a bedroom with "Home Town Hero" blue walls, covered in River Phoenix posters and stars hanging from the ceili...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Dear Life,

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  Thank you for stars and birthday candles, and their inability to make wishes come true. Thank you for disease and miracles, and hope for finding a cure. Thank you for scars, and the stories that come with them. Thank you for fireflies, and their ability to light the way, highlight summers of an All-...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Through the Eyes of a Stoic

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  What if 'JabbaWockeez' played a game of poker? They would all have the same pokerface. The game would be COMPLETELY determined on the cards. What if the game of life was played that way? Based on the cards you were dealt, rather than the facial expressions of those around you? What i...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  River Phoenix

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  Strong, courageous, smart, selfless, caring, hopeful, determined, and admirable. He was Funny, charming, wise, truthful, respectable, and modest. He was a true inspiration, someone you could turn to and depend on no matter what. Someone who always did the right things, regardless of popularity. Some...
• Nonfiction > Educator of the Year
  Oh, Gartner....

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  Wasted time, bad cafeteria food, bad attitudes. Dirty bathrooms, Kids with poor hygiene, and even poorer parents. Forests full of innocent trees that were murdered for the paper that is now sitting in front of me, covered with words and math equations that I will NEVER understand. Temptations of sex...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  A Message To Heaven

  

  By Gina_Marie., Redford, MI

  i sent you a message on a balloon, it was shaped just like a star. I hope it reaches you, wherever it is that you are. It was blue, and i wrote the message in orange paint. i wrote,"I Love You" and "i'll always remember that day." i also wrote the date that you left, and how i miss you ...