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Enchanted
McAuliffe Creative Writing Club
Literary Magazine 2017-2018
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Table of Contents
Writing: Enchanted by Nuzhat Maliha
In the Graveyard by Virginia Iadanza
Aqua by Michelle Kagranian
Lilac by Petrina D’Antonio
Black by Joseph Cruz
The Color Black by Olivia Smith
The Legend of Mau by Nuzhat Maliha
The Untold Story of Night by Virginia Iadanza
Green Grass and Grey Stones by Nichole Pastore
Sun and Moon by Colleen Nagy
Creative Writing Club Members: Arianna Griesi, Nichole Pastore, Michelle Kagramian, Gianna Iadanza, Virginia
Iadanza, Nuzhat Maliha, Olivia Smith, Alex Lourenco, Genesis Acevedo, Dani
Casper, Emma Murphy, Sallyann Russo, Colleen Nagy, Christian Lampfert,
Rebecca Matick, Olivia Santiago, Ava DeIanni, Joseph Cruz, Tiffany Chan,
Petrina D’Antonio, Kaitlynn Smith
Artwork and Photography: Cover Photo- Gianna Iadanza
Mermaid, Cards, Sunset- Gianna Iadanza
Harry Potter- Virginia Iadanza
Disney Castle-Dani Casper
Shenandoah National Park, Martha’s Vineyard-Ms. Doherty
Italy-Mrs. Cascio
Characters- Colleen Nagy
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Enchanted
By Nuzhat Maliha
The softness of the grass
The pitter patter of the rain
Make the world strong again
The magic flies all around
So quietly it doesn't make a sound
The blue fairies fly all around
Looking like a blue light
On the ground
If you look closer
On the trees
You will see
A little family
The squirrels and birds play
Anywhere
But without you
There will be there without care
The sun shines bright in the morning
While the moon gleams in the night
The wolves howl on the hill
While the stars glow at the sight!
You start to close your eyes and everything turns dark
Though the place was a dream, it was in your heart.
Crown Nichole Pastore
The Crown of a King
A sign of power
More wanted than a meteor shower
The Crown of a King
The Crown of a King
More tempting than sirens
A thing to see on the horizon
The Crown of a King
The Crown of a King
Something filled with dreams
Always hiding some schemes
The Crown of a King
The Crown of a King
A prediction of corruption
A prediction of disruption
The Crown of a King
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The Untold Story Of Night Virginia Iadanza
This story about my good friend Night should be read in the dark or at, well night.
Night, like Death, was very dark and mysterious. Night always hated ruling only
half of the day, sharing it with Morning, Afternoon, and Evening. Night and Evening
always despised Morning and Afternoon, because they ruled what Night and Evening
feared. Light. Evening was Night’s son who was taught to be just like his father, but
Evening has a totally different story than Night, so we’ll say goodbye to his story for now.
Now, to the good stuff.
Night, in his black cloak, has come to a meeting where his future will change. It is
the first time he might get an extra hour of night, a time of year when Morning and
Afternoon will feel his wrath of power. Night stepped into the half lit and half dark room
that their meeting would be hosted. Morning, Afternoon, and Evening walked into the
meeting room. Morning and Afternoon took their seats on the light side. Night and
Evening took their places on the dark side.
As the meeting came to a close, it was clear. Night had a time of year that he
got one more hour to rule his time. The other half of the year, Morning would rule her
time for one more hour, and Night would lose the hour he gained in the first half. This
time would later become known as “Daylight Savings”. But Night was still mad. He
wanted to rule all of the day. Make light into a swirling hole of darkness. Night learned a
few days after the meeting that there has to be a balance between light and dark.
Now, there is a perfect balance between light and dark, morning and night.
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The Legend of Mau Nuzhat Maliha
Have you ever wished that something happened to you? Like, something amazing, adventurous,
something that flows and rushes in your blood that gives excitement? Well turns out, that what I felt, until
today.
It was a snowy morning. Frost was on my window, and gentle yet calming snowflakes fell on my
porch. I lived in Redwood. On the corner of Maline and Mante street. It was cold. But unfortunately it was
my chore, Mail Day. Well to be honest, it was better than my brother Mark’s chore, Trash Pickup Day. My
brother was younger than me but we loved adventures. As I grabbed the mail he came out of the back
door. I saw a banana peel on his shoe. I laughed.
“Not funny Jenna” he said to me as he was carefully picking up the banana peel with a tissue,
throwing it out in the trash. I still laughed because I didn’t care. Then I noticed something unusual in the
mail, like a ticket maybe? I ran in my room. Of course my brother was obviously interested so he raced after
me. I looked at it closely while I was sitting on the bed. My brother yelled out “Its 3 tickets to Asia!”.
I said “Be quiet idiot! Mom can’t know about this. Also its not Asia! Its Japan”. I gave him a stern
look. He put his hands up meaning he understands and he's sorry. “Maybe we should tell mom about this
and bring Uncle Cole” I said. My brother thought about it and agreed. We rushed downstairs.
“MOM!!!!!!” Mark said. “What is it Mark?” Mom said. I explained what came in the mail and how we
can go to Uncle Cole’s house which is three blocks away to go to this place. She thought about it for a
while. Mark and I waited patiently until she said “Alright, as long as there is an adult with you. Me and Mark
cheered and we rushed upstairs packing the things we might need. I packed a flashlight, clothes, a tent,
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lighter for a campfire, and water. My brother packed clothes, a map, a compass, a sleeping bag, and
water.
Mom had called Uncle Cole to pick us up. When he came he had a HUGE suitcase. He had an
arrogant look. Me and Mark looked at him in amazement. We had taken hours to pack but he just finished
it like 5 minutes! Besides the arrogant look we rushed to him and hugged him. “Hi Uncle Cole!”
“Hey there scamps!” he said as he brushed me and Mark’s hair. We laughed. We hugged mom
and left. “Uncle Cole, I love your new car!” I said. Uncle Cole said “Thanks Jenna, I have been saving’ this
beaut for a special reason, and today is the day!” I smiled. Then when we were leaving I saw my best
friends, Mikayla,Jessica, and Tessa. They wondered where I was going. I told them and then they had a
frown. I said “Don’t worry! I won’t die or anything.” We all laughed and hugged each other.
We were there at the airport. I was so excited that my face hurt when I smiled. We had a very long
trip while on the airport. My brother barfed. I started laughing while he said “Not funny Jenna” . I said “Well
it’s funny to me.”. Soon we were at Japan. I didn’t really know the reason why we were there. Until my
brother said there was a place on the map that said the Temple of Mau. He said “Uncle Cole, Jenna! Let’s
go to the Temple of Mau!” Uncle Cole looked at the map. I did too. We both looked at each other and
shrugged. But we agreed.
It was a very long walk. Since we were lost and hungry we saw a little town up across the hill. We
walked until we smelled delicious Japanese onion soup. I followed the aroma scent to the restaurant. I was
right. There was a restaurant with Japanese name and a translated English name that said Jackson Peter’s
Soup! I figured that the men or women who worked there was also English. So we went in and asked for the
onion soup that was on the board in English. The woman smiled kindly. She ordered onion soup loudly into
the kitchen. The man was jolly and was flipping eggs, but then he went right to the soup and started
preparing it. The woman offered us a story. My brother would like a story after a long trip. So he jumped up
and down saying “Yes please!”.
The woman sat down with us when we were drinking/eating our onion soup. She started saying
English, because she obviously figured we were from America when we ordered the soup in English. She
said “This is a story about a young girl. She was very brave. Nothing stood in her way. But she wasn't exactly
a nice girl. She was very stubborn. One day when her parents said no, she went into a lost forbidden
temple. One second she came in she stepped on a block that went down, down, down. She screamed for
help until she fell to the ground bleeding and injured. But she got back up and decided there was no going
back until she walked on another block which shot darts from the sides! She had managed to escape the
darts. But she wasn’t out of the temple. Then she saw a great treasure. The owner of the temple’s crown.
Queen June. The crown was dusty, but before she touched it she saw ancient writing on the pillar’s. The
pillars were in Japanese, but she didn’t care and touched it. A huge boulder ran straight down her! Blood
splattering everywhere! But the crown remained. Not a single piece crumbled from the crown. Now the
temple is still here, but nobody dares to go in it… But it is said that if somebody does go down there the
way she did, he or she would land on the boulder that hit the girl. Past that,... you would see her dead
body with blood on the walls! Of course, also the crown.”.
The woman had left us with our food. My brother munched/drank the soup, and so did my uncle,
while I was thinking about the legend. Had the lady lied to us about it? Or was it actually true. I told my
uncle, “Uncle Cole! Maybe we should go to the legend of the lost forbidden temple!”! All the people in the
store was looking at us so we left the money on the table and walked out of the store. I could hear people
murmuring about us. I wanted to hide. I felt embarrassed, but my uncle and brother walked out with pride.
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My uncle took Mark’s map from him. He looked at it and found a symbol on the map that said
DANGER DO NOT ENTER with a skull with bones coming out of it. He said let's go to that! That symbol must
be the temple! Of course I had to say “ARE YOU CRAZY!?!”. Again my brother and uncle were alike, they
loved challenges, so they both nodded. I shaked my head in disbelief that they were actually gonna go
there, turns out they did.
I had to walk in yucky swamp water while my brother and my uncle swimmed in it. I gagged. They
smelled like sewage water with seaweeds on their heads. I said “Gross!”. My brother and uncle looked at
each other and laughed. Soon we were there. I looked at the scary temple. I saw spiderwebs everywhere! I
even saw a scary painting of a Queen. I remembered the story of what the lady had said, she had said a
queen, named Queen June was the owner of the temple. I figured the scary lady painting must be her.
When we barely stepped inside we saw a certain square blocks out of order. My uncle stopped us and
threw a rock at one of the blocks. Nothing happened. We had stepped on the block! We were safe! My
brother and uncle did the same thing all the way to the end!
We had made it to the end! Then I saw cannon-like shapes on the walls. My brother had been
watching Action-Kids for a long time and said “Those must shoot darts! We have to be careful! Ollie died
from the Action-Kids from darts. Too bad, he was my favorite character.” My uncle shrugged. So we had to
duck and eventually we made it! “Wow. I can’t believe we made it this far.” I said. Just then I could see a
hole. The shape was a circle. I looked inside and screamed. My uncle and brother rushed over to the hole
and said “Cool!”. I gagged. There was blood everywhere! On the boulder. On the walls, everything!
“This must be where the girl in the story died let’s go down!” my brother said. My uncle agreed
while I thought to myself maybe this wasn’t such a good idea. We slid through perfectly somehow. I was
scared the boulder might move and crush us. While my brother and uncle just walked happily. Soon we
saw blood on pillars, with Japanese written on them. Just like the lady back at the restaurant had said! We
looked at the pillars and examined them. My uncle got out a translator and switched Japanese to English,
took a picture of the pillars and it had translated “Beware! The crown of Queen June must be held carefully
with gloves! No person should ever touch it without any kind of gloves. Fingerprints will trigger a boulder
coming right at you! The ancient crown must be carefully held and not dropped! Beware and heed this
message from the scroll of Queen June! This is a special crown. Hold it carefully with gloves, and the crown
is yours!”. My uncle had gloves from the suitcase. He grabbed it held the crown with the gloves, and we
weren’t crushed!
I looked at it in awe. We hurried out with the scarves we had around our necks, made a rope,
climbed it back up and made it out the temple! Considering that the traps were already unleashed. The
crown had glowed when we made it out. Then a spirit popped out of nowhere! The spirit said she was
Queen June, and thanked us for freeing her from her tomb. We showed to the leader of Japan! The leader
had made a huge ceremony for us! We were known as the brave people who went inside the temple and
got the crown of Queen June! It was all over the news of the world! Everyone had saw it!
When we came home everyone at my home hugged me with Uncle Cole, my best friends, my
parents, and even my other classmates! They had a lot of questions but all I wanted to do was sleep. When
we went to sleep the Crown of Queen June was carefully placed in a glass box with lasers and more in a
Museum in Japan. We were so proud of ourselves, and to think I doubted myself for thinking this wasn’t
such a good idea.
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Aqua
Michelle Kagramian
Aqua is beautiful
Aqua is amazing
Aqua is wonderful
Aqua tastes like salt waves of the ocean
Aqua smells like sweet summer candy
Aqua sounds like soft music that hits you with a bang
Aqua feels like a cold winter breeze
Aqua looks like the beautiful sea
Aqua is powerful
Lilac
Petrina D’Antonio
Lilac tastes like frosting on a cupcake
Lilac smells like a warm spring day
Lilac sounds like butterflies fluttering
And birds tweeting
Lilac feels like happiness
Lilac is subtle
Lilac is loud.
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Black
Joseph Cruz
Black is empty
Black is nothing
Black is a void
Black is endless
Black tastes like charred coal
Black smells like gasoline
Black sounds like white noise
Black feels like colorless space
Black looks like darkness
Black makes me think about the importance of life and
death
Black is emo
The Color Black Olivia Smith
Black is the color of a dark, rainy night.
Black is the color of a thick smoke cloud.
Black is the color of emptiness.
Black is a gloomy color.
Black tastes like charcoal bits.
Black smells like the fresh, cool air at two in the morning.
Black sounds like nothing.
Black feels like a cold, solid rock underneath you.
Black looks like an empty, dark, lonely house.
Black makes me feel blissful.
Black is my favorite color,
The color of my soul.
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Green Grass and Grey Stones Nichole Pastore
Green grass and grey stones
Baby blue skies and oceans
Pink flowers and beautiful trees
Burning weather, yet still so wonderful
Green grass and grey stones
Clouded skies and colder oceans
Leaves falling from those once green trees
Chilly weather, yet still so wonderful
Green grass and grey stones
Hidden sun and freezing oceans
Snowflakes fall and cover the trees
Breath can be seen, yet still so wonderful
Green grass and grey stones
Light blue skies and cold oceans
Blooming flowers and leaves growing on trees
Warm weather, yet still so wonderful
Green grass and grey stones
The things that do not change unlike oceans
The things that stay the same unlike trees
The cycle repeats, forgetting grass and stones, yet still so wonderful
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Sun and Moon
Colleen Nagy
Now, just to explain to you about Story Arc, Story Arc is about a
specific time frame in which time travel is in progress. As we start the
story, we see two young Pokémon enthusiasts who are thrown into
the Pokémon Universe and begin their journey through the Aloha
region and go through the different regions to find and collect
Pokémon, collect badges, and gather Pokémon data for their
professor: Professor Kukui. These two friends, both entrusted with a
pokedex, head off on their separate journeys only to meet up at the
first gym.
Hoenn is a region in the Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, and ORAS
within the game. Hoenn is based on the island of Kyusu in Japan and
lies to the south-west of Kanto and Johto in the Pokémon world. It is
the only sea region so far. A sea region is a region with a lot of routes
you travel by surfing.
Now, according to the Pokémon legend, the Hoenn region was
formed by the Legendary Land Pokémon Groudon raising the land
and the Legendary Ocean Pokémon, Kyogre, expanding the sea.
The Hoenn region contains its own Pokémon League called the
Hoenn League, and its own Elite Four, unlike Johto and Kanto which
share their Elite Four in the video games. Routes in Hoenn are
numbered from 101 to 134, and do not follow sequentially from
routes in Kanto-Johto, which are numbered 1 to 48, by the way these
numbers are routes in the game.
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Have you already collected them all? Well then, grab your poke
ball, because a fifth generation of Pokémon creatures comes your
way from Nintendo!