With suicide rates in the United States increasing rapidly by each year, I felt that it was necessary to raise awareness for the thousands of people suffering. "Two Hundred and Twenty Feet" explores more of the analytical side of suicide, focusing on the two thousand people who have jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge to further relate to the community in my area.

I wrote this piece in class when every patch of my academic competence had dried into dust. Sometimes I can my writing mind teetering into this other eccentric place. Usually, I ignore this side, re frame from any of its odd aspects, but on this special day: hot and estranged from my studies, it only felt right to follow its voice.

The Far Shore was a practice piece to develop descriptions of each of the five senses. The creative process involved researching Japanese and Chinese spiritual beliefs about life after death, taking particular inspiration from Buddhist ideology surrounding the salvation of all souls.

My piece titled “In Dreams” is about a young man named Harry. Harry has dreams of himself as a child in a house and is being haunted by a creature. Through therapy sessions with Dr. Elisa Shaul many of Harrys’ secrets are uncovered. My piece covers themes such as repressed memories of childhood trauma.

A Poem On Life And How It Should Be Led. Life Is Beautiful.

In this piece, I wanted to make a comparison of an angel to my life as a non-binary teenager in today’s oh, so confusing world. Acceptance of the fact that I was different from most of my friends and family was a fact that made me ashamed for years, but when I touched the gate, when I accepted my fluidness as a part of who I am, I felt at peace.

Look at the Flowers I Got You is a short fiction that shows but a small fraction of what grief can feel like when a loved one is gone. I find it intriguing when the same phrase is used at the beginning and end of a story with a different tone because it shows the impact that context has on a sentence.

TW: allusions to SA. This is a testament to my trauma and what I had gone through when I was a child and how I still persevered despite it and currently going through a long but difficult path to healing.

it is based mostly on a real story between me and a friend with name changes for confidential

Just wanted to give reasons as to why reading helps strengthen you're mind.

This is a story of how I was groomed online for years. It continues to affect me and I used this poem as a way to cope.

This piece started as a microfiction with required words and actions. My writing is generally dark and this is no exception however I selected this piece to revise and submit because I feel my writing style has changed and improved.

I decided to write this piece to show and spread awareness on how it feels to be a victim of sexual assault. It shows how agonizing and disgusting is really to be sexually assaulted.

My entry is about a girl struggling with insecurities and body dysmorphia. It represents hope in overcoming self hatred and discovering self confidence. It is about growing mentally as a person through life. This piece can be very relatable, especially to teenagers.

This first poem, "Different Voices" is very close to me. It is based on my own and my friends' experiences with self harm and outside pressures. How can you decide who to listen to when they all want the best for you? What do you do when your own voice tells you to do something that you don't want to do, but you don’t know how to stop?

A personal relationship with my debate partner

When I first started writing 'The Summer of 2014,' I didn't have much of an idea as to what I wanted to write about. The poem was originally made

This is an assignment I worked on in my English class during Freshman year. The purpose of this creative writing assignment was to research someone in our family (had to be blood related) who lived at least 100 years ago.

I wrote this one night when I was tired. The words came to me and I had to stop what I was doing and pull out my notes app. I remember thinking that it felt nice to have these words out on a page––bad because I was feeling like shit, but good because I knew how to express it.

It is a science fiction short story (it will become a full novel) about five young adults traveling to space to become the first crew to reach Jupiter and start a colony on its moon Europa. But evil lurks among them somewhere.