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Come Morning Come Death

I wrote "Ascentomaniatic" as a response to seeing people give their lives to religion and let it twist them into something evil, all for the promise of eternal salvation. I decided on writing it as a sonnet so that I could use the voltas to show the descent into darkness of the people so obsessed with ascending to heaven, hence the title.

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Two Poems

These are two poems I've written over the past couple months, I've wrote and changed these many times, changing words and scrapping fractions of them over and over. These poems attempt to share to subject of conversation, judging how it can be reduced to unnecessary sameness, or talking about anxiety around it.

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Goodbye Again

Goodbye Again is a microfiction piece that explores loss, grief, and change. It reflects on the challenges of having a friend whose illness controls them, and the small things that one can do to show they matter.

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wild

I originally wrote this poem for an English assignment called "I Am From." My class's job was to use imagery and creativity to describe our upbringings; why we are who we are today.

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Singing Beach

The submitted pieces are part of a year-long school assignment where I write a 60-page collection of creative nonfiction. The story is part of my ultimate goal to create a published chapbook.

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Make Believe

Prior to the creation of my piece, I detested micro-fiction. I couldn't comprehend why people enjoyed the overly condensed format and I was jealous of people who made strong works with such low word count.

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Once a Hero

My short fiction story is about a villain who was once a hero. When I started writing, I thought about books that I read. Inspired by morally grey characters’ complexity and that “life is not always black and white,” I decided to write a story embracing these characters since readers, including myself, usually question if these characters’ actions are “good” or “bad.”

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I Pledge Allegiance

My artwork is a collection of two poems that detail the experiences I and many others have had as an immigrant living in the United States of America. I've personally always felt that I didn't quite belong here in this country, a feeling that in the past years has only grown stronger as I and my people have been shunned and assaulted.

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