Enchanted

McAuliffe Creative Writing Club

Literary Magazine 2017-2018

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

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

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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Have you already collected them all? Well then, grab your poke

ball, because a fifth generation of Pokémon creatures comes your

way from Nintendo!