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  Complicated Beauties

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  What is beautiful? Color. Emotion. Expression. Peace, wonder, excitement, love. Feeling. The first days of summer, that one perfect sunset, the design a flock of geese make in the sky. Discovery. Honesty. Purity. A full moon. Laughter, music, dance. Finding the Big Dipper on a starry night, since...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Ballerina Astronaut

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  When I was 4 years old, I wanted to be an astronaut ballerina. My parents would laugh as I ran around the house in a pink tutu, making blast-off noises through my lips with my fist stuck in the air like Superman’s. I must have been quite a sight, but at the time I certainly didn’t think it w...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Something Powerful

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  I’ve always wanted to write something powerful. You could spend months and years searching for that moment…that perfect moment when you realize that new and original idea that no one else has come up with. The eighth color in the spectrum, the Andy Warhol of the writing world. A piece no one ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Why I Read

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  So many people don’t understand why I sometimes would prefer staying home with a book than go to the mall or out with my friends. They don’t get the draw to reading, or to fictional stories. They ask, “Why do you bother with reading? Just see the movie.” Movies can’t always capture wha...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  My Happy Camper

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  She was a beautiful girl. Shoulder-length, sandy colored hair and large brown eyes filled with a knowledge rare in most nine year olds. She had the most adorable little gap between her two front teeth. When she smiled, she lit up the room around her in a way that made you smile too. She was the most...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  World Peace

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  Imagine Written by John Lennon “Imagine there's no heaven It's easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people Living for today. “Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too ...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  Age Defined

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  As teenagers, we all have had experiences. Some good, some bad. Our generation is shown to the world as the "Troublemakers." We see stories on the news about teens going on shooting sprees, stealing thousands of dollars worth of objects from stores, doing drugs and drinking from even the e...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  I know.

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL

  I know his favorite color. I know what size jeans he wears. I've pet-sit his black lab since he got it from the animal shelter 12 years ago. I know about the penny he's had in his pocket since second grade for good luck. I know that his hero is his Uncle Peter and that he joined the Navy f...
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  Floridian Sunset

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL
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  Waiting

  

  By JillianNora, Forest Park, IL