"The Short Life of Caitlin Lucasta" Sample

By the time I got down to the kitchen to get a bite to eat, my mother, her new husband Ryan, and their bouncing baby boy, Carter, were all already occupying the kitchen.

“You’ve got to eat one more bite! Come on, one more!” My mother said, raising a spoonful of some baby mush in Carter’s direction. Was this how she was with me? When I was just a baby and no one had any idea how messed up I was?

“Good morning,” I said. My mother remained with her back turned to me, but Ryan gave me a slight nod, acknowledging my presence in the room. “Um, I have a meeting with the principal today,” I said. I grabbed a red apple off the kitchen table and began twisting and poking at its stem out of nervousness

Semester Two Thoughts

This semester in Creative Writing, I am excited to put all my hard efforts that I made in semester one and out them to use. The bar is raised in the second semester, and I can not wait to dive head-first into it. The bring-back of the “Creative Reading” is one that exhilarates me most, as I am a very avid reader and cannot wait to be able to read diverse and various works of poetry, fiction, and more during class. Screenplay writing is something that I have been interested in my entire life, so being able to do it in a class is something special to me. I’ve always loved movies and I genuinely cannot wait to take a stab at writing a screenplay. Semester two will be full of risk-taking and originality from me and feel so excited to start.