My entry for the Romance~ contest.

Based on my life experience with someone I love more than life itself.

A poem about a loved one.

A girl and her friend were working in a gas station when they meet someone who will lead them to their deathbeds.

Based on the book The Things The Carried, this is a poem telling of the physical and emotional baggage I will carry if I were drafted today.

Scarlet Eldridge discovers a abandoned pirate ship while working with her father at Kullens Lighthouse in Sweden. The ship was dreadful, very dreadful, but for a pirates ship that had washed ashore there was no sign of violence or foul play. Scarlet notices that there were supper plates half eaten on the crews table, and extra food in the pots on the icy-cold stovetop. She also notices a symbol carved into the deck, it was a very strange symbol, never used in Sweden. It was the Devils Mark.

When Rena Brendan is pushed out of the only place she knew, she finds what really happened to the island, and the world below. But as she uncovers one secret there are only more to uncover the truth. Can Rena stop the mysterious overlord and find out the truth about the inderlands before it's too late ?

I wrote this story in my creative writing class. The teacher gave us three sheets of paper to write a plot, setting, and characters. Then we mixed them up in bags and chose one setting and plot, and our three main characters