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  Capacious Mind

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  You are sitting on the hot concrete of a place that will be considered sacred to you in the near future. You look up from what you are doing, and you notice this completely eerie, yet beautiful, silence. Your peers playing—civilized. A moment to cherish. Something so celestial, it takes up a capac...
• Fiction > Romance
  Steal From Me

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  I look at the pictures on the walls, reaching up to touch them, my fingers just barely brushing the pure gold frames. This is what I see as I tour this mansion that I once knew so well. This is what I see, captured memories. Moments in time to be cherished forever. The first picture is of a woman....
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  Please, Make Me Breathe

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  He makes my heart beat. And I don't mean faster, I mean, he's what makes my heart pump blood. I mean that without him, I do not pump, I do not live, I do not breathe. My heart hurts near him, though. It hurts so badly... And I just noticed it. I noticed that when I'...
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  Safe to Burn

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  How lovely, to have the capacity to feel pain. To be able to save your own life because of that pain. To feel fire. Because fire is Power, and that which is Power simply cannot be ignored. But how to vanquish it? How to kill it? Fire to fire. Burn to burn. Because it is a pleasure to...
• Reviews > Book Reviews
  Just Listen by Sarah Dessen

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  In Just Listen, Sarah Dessen discusses what it means to listen, and more importantly, to be heard by somebody--anybody--who may be listening. The protagonist, Ashley Greene, has enough of her own problems. She has a modeling job she wants to quit, she's an outcast in her school and on the s...
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  Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  Speak. Speak because you have a voice. Speak because you have the right to. Speak because if you don't, then who will? There are so many problems nowadays--most of them involving teens. It is so sad how children cannot grow up CLEAN. Instead, we grow up with things on our minds that should no...
• Fiction > Romance
  Mental

  

  By RozaB, Milpitas, CA

  It is an awful place... War. It is an awful sense of being lost. It is a way to take away lives. It is an excuse for violence. War. It is dead. There is no life. You do not live. Madness—that is what it is. And they say I am mad. Because he is gone. They say I am mental. Because he is gone...