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  For Newtown

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  Sentimus sed non intellegimus. We feel, but we do not understand. Haec dies animo haeret. This day sticks in our soul. Haereat. Let it stick. Requiescant. Let them rest....
• Nonfiction > Academic
  The Election of 1796: Abigail Adams’ Sacrifice

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  Abigail Adams, a Massachusetts housewife and intellectual, received a letter in January 1796 from her husband, John Adams, the first Vice President of the United States (Parks 1). “In perfect Secrecy between You and me,” he wrote, “I must tell you that I now believe the P. will retire” (Adam...
• Opinion > School / College
  Standardized Tests Don't Predict Academic Ability

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  No major standardized test currently reflects the academic abilities of American high school students accurately. In theory, a standardized test can give every person an equal chance to prove himself, but specific issues prevent this ideal situation from occurring. To illustrate these some of these ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  A Halo

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  An old woman stands in a black and white photograph, emanating light against the dark background, clothed in nothing but gray mist and a white sheet. The shimmering cloth, almost by untouched by shadow, outlines her elbows and hands as she holds it. She has let the sheet slip and bared the top of he...
• Fiction > Scripts & Plays
  Does Santa Run a Ponzi Scheme?

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  (It is Christmas Eve, 2011. While bells ring and carolers sing in the distance, Reese, 16, whispers on her cellphone inside her room. Her room is covered with makeup containers and magazines, and Reese herself is wearing lipstick and heavy eye makeup. Her sister Leslie, a precocious 6-year-old i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Beautiful Thing

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  I wrote a beautiful thing about you. Would you see it? No. You would see ugly and snatch back your tattered cloak (a fur coat?) and hide yourself away. Truth is safest about other people....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nisret, a Kolkata Street-girl

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  Nisret had no parents and no food. She had a sunshine-yellow pencil a right eye a name They attacked from the left and took her pencil. She fell, but there was no one to see or hear. The tears stained her eye red and blotted it out. (“Nisret” means “victory”)....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  In the Mirror

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  The girl clamps the stray hairs down. A wall of platinum blond surrounds her head, with only the roots black. They’re all so happy. They’ll be happy with her, too. She tries to smile at the mirror. Her skin is so pale, a few more sunless days and it will be almost colorless, white....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Joking

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  You, in sunshine yellow bow-tie, bounced in constant laughter through the night. The conversation was about bridge-jumping and someone asked just as a joke who really would and your hand jerked up Just as a joke. You blinked your shining eyes and stared, And then you lowered it. The smi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Graffiti

  

  By LatinNerd, San Jose, CA

  “I don't believe it,” he assured us. He writes “The Boss” and “The Best,” and his name. Face blank, he writes his name, locking long white fingers to the markers. It's scrawled in deep purple, and in other colors, the ink gliding over his brother's signature and into the entire...