Scary Stories

I am writing these poems from inside of a zombie and I can see out here. So please excuse the handwriting which may not be clear. But when I was with my mother and we were in the cemetery we heard something and it was coming from the ground and it grabbed me and my…

From “Mesopotamian Monster”

Imagine running barefoot across the muddy land of Mesopotamia in 12,000 BC. A monster made up of salty water is chasing you. You run away, and in front of you is the monster’s twin brother. They’ve trapped you. There’s nowhere to run. There’s nowhere to hide. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers have flooded your crops…

Pumpkin Pie (a story in two parts)

by Victoria (7th grade) BEST As my grandma places my sister’s pumpkin pie on the table, you can see everybody drift towards it as though it were calling their names. It looks like it’s from a bakery because the top of the pie is so flat and smooth, it looks like a piece of orange…

i make no promise of better days…

i make no promise of better days… i can’t, i know a woman has just hung up her phone.. after speaking to the love of her life’s love of his life. wondering if she’s gunna say a word to him. why make a promise for better days when in every city i go to i…

Going to Chinatown

  The poem, Derek, clapped his hands twice to get to Chinatown in Manhattan. He wanted to go to a dumpling store. He saw an ice cream shop and said, “I want to get ice cream, first.” So Derek went to the shop and bought chocolate ice cream. While he was walking down the street…