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  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  "It's Not Funny" by "Amy" is heartfelt, beautiful, and completely correct. I agree completely with the authors plea to think before you say things. This article is the story of a girl who was raped at a young age. She is telling us, as people, not t to say, in a joking man...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hello, you look familiar

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  Hello, you look familiar. Really? Because I've never seen you. I've never heard you slink through the hallway, taking pictures of the atrocities of middle school. Oh, you want my name? You're featuring my article? In what, The New York Times? Oh. You are. I wake up, drenc...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Mama's Love

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  The wind whirled and turned like a person giving birth Like mama giving birth. Like mama dying, Dad says i have her gray eyes, her windswept chestnut hair. I have his structure though. A tall, lean angular body. During the night, When i clutch my arms close to my body, searching for cover a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  "Summer Dreaming"

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  I reach up to answer, Then catch my hand, just in the nick of time. I could have answered, let free the pounding words in my head, but i stopped. What if I was wrong? My math teacher drones on about transversals, and i try to submerge myself in the thought of summer....
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  Heartbeats by: Olivia Cucinotta

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  Heartbeats by Olivia C is touching. Beginning in a doctors office, feeling out of place, ending in a school bathroom, feeling the same way. This article has phrases that make it original, with a stark beauty all its own, like a beating heart. One of my favorite is "Your heart is "Your he...
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  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  I could connect with Sarah Anderson's piece :Our Best Memories. Ina this moving fiction work, she tells the story of a best friend who falls in love, but is to scared to tell the other. The character believes that it is safer to remain friends then to risk it for one kiss I really sympathize, ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Chicken

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  Pop. Chickens dying. Jumping feet. Don't fall. You'll kill the chicken. You'll pluck its puckered scar. Ouch. Its you. Your turning the chicken into this. This creature. It'll laugh, and adjust to the puppet strings. Rotate its head, and wait for the shadows to envelop me...
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  Bring It On: The Broadway Play

  

  By MariannaPasta, New York, NY

  Boom, light glitters in you eyes, shiny blonde hair sparkles in the spotlight, and the voice of Cambell (Taylor Louderman) fills your senses. You are glued to your seat as Bring it On, a hit Broadway show, brings the halls of Truman High to life. In the beginning of Bring It On, we meet Cambell,...