"This Moment" By Eavan Boland

A school.
At morning.


Things have just begun
of entering
high school year.


Books and teachers.
And friends forming all around.


But not new.


Some kids are mean.
Some kids are sweet as pie.


A mother leans down to hug her child
who is hiding in her arms
this moment.


Bells ring.
Halls empty.
Minds explore in the class.

She Stole My Heart

She stole my heart, my soul. I couldn’t believe it was possible. This beautiful, mythical creature stole my heart. Growing up my sister and I used to swim in our pool and pretend to be mermaids but I did not know they were real. I met her in a mythical place and she stole my heart.

This mythical place was my dreams, every night. Every night I would be sound asleep where no one could wake me up.  The only way I could see her was if I was cuddling a mermaid’s favorite sea creature, a sea horse. This mythical place was only in my dreams until she made it real. One night in late July, she put me under a curse where I flew to her in real life. I woke up in Myrtle Beach, where I got my purple sea horse twelve years ago. She awakened me by a kiss and this is where she stole my heart. It was more magical then mythical.

She was real. I always wanted to be mermaid let alone to be kissed by one. She whispered in my ear that there was a way to become like her. My heart was beating so fast, it burst and the process started. She held me in her arms as I started to grow a magnificent mermaid tale and a shell bra with luscious breasts underneath. My hair grew as long as it could grow with purple highlights. Again she awakened me with a kiss when the process was complete and she was happy with my appearance. She whispered that I was the most beautiful creature in the world, even though she was truly the most beautiful.

We had to go because the sun was rising. With being mind-blown by this night, I wished that my sister could see this. She could read minds and she whispered “You are mine now; your heart belongs to me, and your soul with forever lives with mine.”        

The Goofiest and the Toughest

In Cartoontown, both worlds of real and imaginary are mashed together. Here in this town live all the cartoons you can imagine and special every day humans of the world. But Cartoontown is nowhere to be found on the map of Earth. It is hidden, to the “normals” of mankind; those who can’t imagine such a world will never experience Cartoontown. Rodger Rabbit was the goofiest of the goofy and Joe was the toughest firefighter in Cartoontown. One day their worlds of never knowing each other ended and unfortunately so did Rodger.

On this hot summer day in June, Roger was driving his new, beautiful red convertible around town. After having a merry morning with his wife Jessica, he was in a good mood and enjoying the breeze run over his ears.  While driving Rodger glanced over and saw his wife. Rodger did not think of anything as, she was laying down over railroad tracks. Rodger’s eye blew out of his in awe as they do every time he sees Jessica. Rodger got even more distracted as he paid more attention to his wife. Jessica was getting tied down to the railroad tracks by the evilest cop of Cartoontown. Rodger lost his mind and all common sense, as he abandoned his moving vehicle to save Jessica.

Since Rodger did not properly stop his car, the new red convertible was no longer that. His car crashed right into Joe’s new Sierra. Joe was furious. As Rodger was trying to save Jessica, he saw the crash and jumped into the air while his eyes popped out of his head again. Rodger ran over to Joe to try to apologize but Joe did not want to hear. Rodger started to give Joe the sweet and innocent face with his hands up to his checks to ask for forgiveness. Joe started to forgive and let Rodger shake his hand as they agreed on how to fix damages. Until, Joe’s entire truck started on fire in the middle of the hand shake. Joe continued to squeeze Rodger’s hand tighter and tighter and shook even harder and harder. Joe did this until Rodger’s eyes popped out of head one more time and this was the final time until there was no longer a Rodger Rabbit in Cartoontown.