Teen Ink

Advanced Search Results

• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Plain Crazy

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Beth. Actually her name was Elizabeth but she was mostly referred to as plain Beth. Plain. That's the word, the perfect word to describe Beth. Plain Beth. I remember that she had black hair that was chopped short, kind of like a bowl cut. Since we were only in the first grade and she wasn...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Missing Archives.

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  “She's back there,” they said. They being the fifth-grade boys, she being a girl from our school who had gone missing, and there being the woods behind our elementary school. None of us present, even the ever-so-wise fifth-graders, had any real knowledge of who took her or where she was. Unf...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Jessica Ridgeway

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  I think about all those things All those things I’ve done Since I was ten Horrible things Like being sick all summer and missing out on fun Talking in front of the class and how terrible I felt then Losing teeth and losing love That fear entering high school and starting 9th grade Getti...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  In the Line of Duty

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Dying in the line of duty is considered something noble, Something selfless, Something to be proud of, Something to be remembered for, And it was something that you were willing to do. The only thing is that sets you apart for me, Is that you did not risk your life for a nation, Or a cultu...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Poster Was no Help

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  “So, what?” I ask the man sitting across from me, him being the only thing in the room of interest to stare at anyway. “You just want me to sit here and tell you all about what happened?” He nods at me and I raise an eyebrow at him. To me he seems a little too calm sitting there in his sui...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  She's About Average

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  She’s a normal thirteen year old Unless you’re talking about her hair The hair that is so blond it’s almost white That hair people pay go money to try to get That hair that I use to envy so much, and even though I hate to admit it I still kind of do Then again she sometimes wants to chan...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I thought I Hated You

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  I use to think that I hated you You were always so smart You didn’t even have to try I guess now that I look back that I didn’t hate you, Just envied you But now I think I may just really hate you Because you were always so smart You didn’t even have to try And I can’t believe the...
• Hot Topics > Bullying
  The All Knowing Poster

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  My school has began a new campagin aganist bullying, so there have been anti-bullying posters plastered all over the walls of the school like the ugly wall-paper on the walls of my garndma's livign room. Both are probally equallly effective in stoppign bulllying. The first thing the posters t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Ode to My Air Conditioner

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Oh blessed giver of cool air Let me count the ways I us thee You send a nice breeze through my hair And how tenderly you do caresses me If taken away the heat I then could not bare While others blister outside how happy we will be Some say I love you too much but I do not care Remember whe...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Beautiful

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  You show me a picture of a size 3 model And you tell me she is beautiful Next you show me a size 2 model Then you say she is more beautiful You show me so many things that are all the same And you tell me they are beautiful Now I see a ten year old dead, but she weighed 47 pounds So go on a...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  An Annoying School Poster

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Every day I sit in the back at my call room, And stare at a poster with much gloom On it defines creativity as seeing things others don’t, And stop annoying me this saying won’t Go ahead and call me a cynic But when I started seeing things others can’t, they started calling me a schizoph...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Come over here baby, yeah I like that

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  I am not your honey, your baby or your sweetie My name is not sweet thing, or sexy or baby doll I do not want to be your little house wife, your baby mama, or your lover My ambitions do not include being your booty call, your girlfriend, or your anything else But I am a theologian, a philosophe...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  My crazy sexist feminist psychology teacher

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  It is a scientific fact that the male brain is larger than the female brain, but is also a scientific fact that the female brain works a lot more than the male brain. I think we can all agree upon that. Yet when my female teacher was giving us notes on the brain and pointed out these facts, she bec...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Smile

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Smile for me He says Just one smile for me But he knows He knows I just want to be mad To be mad at the world for a while But something about him makes me have to smile I try to fight Keep the corners of my mouth pointed down But he says to smile And I do try to fight The anger slips a...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Breath Away

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  You have a smile that takes my breath away You have a laugh that makes me want to come play And you got those eyes that make me want to stay And how I do want to stay How I do want to stay Because you have a smile that takes my breath away But you have that way of pushing my away You have...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  That Stupid Retard

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  He’s no idiot, he may not be the smartest person to ever walk through the bland hallways of our school, but he is no idiot. You, you who mock him and taunt him, you are the idiot. I almost feel sorry for you, because the only way you can seem to be able to obtain happiness is by torment those that...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Just another Jesus freak?

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  For the love of God, I do not carry around my bible so I can through it at you when I see you sinning. I am not going to go up to gay people and tell them they are going to go to Hell. I listen to more than just gospel music. I did go out trick or treating when I was younger. I do not hate you just ...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Just to Clarify

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  To whom it may concern, No he’s not an alcoholic. No his family does not own a casino. No his father does not abuse his family. No he does not hate all white people, just the ones who assume he’s an alcoholic casino owner with an abuse father. He has never nor will ever cut someone’s scalp...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Doing the Math

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  As I look around my classroom, ignoring the teacher babbling on about a mathematical process I learned years ago, my eyes do not know on whom to focus. At the desk directly to my right, three seats over to my left, the seat two seats behind me, diagonally in front of my, and in the corner seat in th...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  In the Mind of that One Weird Girl Walking Down the Hallway

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  How does my hair look? God, I shouldn’t of worn this, it’s making people look at me. They would of stared anyway, I’m so fat. Uh, my acne is never going to go away. My shoes are so ugly, but my feet were too big for any of the pretty shoes. I don’t want to stare at them, but then I’d have...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To B

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Dear B, I miss the way you use to smile And how that smile warmed me I wish you’d hung around a longer while Life without you isn’t so grand But instead it’s bleak and dreary Here without you holding my hand And the fact you’re gone is just so eerie Sometimes I still can’t belie...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Disney, Disney, Disney

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Some things I would of liked to been told about 1. Once upon a time rarely ever begins in a castle 2. Prince Charming is probably that charming with the step sisters when Cinderella turns her back 3. Sometimes the Beast is really just a beast 4. All you will get from kissing a frog is a war...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Now why would he do that?

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  You know what happened to me a couple of weeks ago, you know what happened to me? I got rapped. Yeah I did. By my boyfriend. And I didn’t mope around that girl from Speak. No I f***ing told! I did. Told my parents flat out. And here’s the kicker, no one believes me. Not a soul. Not mom or dad. N...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Couplet #2

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  You’re lucky if you’ve never been in love before Because then you’ve also never gone through the break up gore...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  MY Fear of being Average

  

  By MichelleAmanda, Miamisburg, OH

  Once I wished I was normal I never liked being abnormal Then I got older And my interest in normal got colder Normal became boring The thought of normal made me start snoring Normal was just so plan Normal was a creative drain Now I love being unusual And I don’t care if I have main st...