Project Rainbow

For school, we had an assignment to write an alternate fairytale. So I wrote mine about Cinderella, enjoy! Alternate Cinderella Cinderella was so bored. She had PTSD from her stepmother poisoning her dad… she just knew it, and her stepsisters are just too annoying. They’d steal her Zoloft and it was really over the top. Anyways I was at my house. I hated doing chores. They would make me do everything. I was really good at sewing. My dad and I would make pillows every Saturday. He didn’t care about “masculinity”, He was so soft and kind, and when my stepmother married him for the money I was so upset. She was the nurse at the hospital and heard he had a terminal illness. She knew that he had inherited a lot of money from our flower farm. We grew roses. Organically of course. So she swooped in and pretended to know all about roses, and stole his heart. I was astonished, but he was sick and needed someone to lean on. She slowly used our flower food to poison him and speed up h

Late January took my virginity A vignette!  Late January took my Virginity Twinkling lights poked out from the gauze of the night. Perhaps little people like us poked their fingers to form the holes big enough to create stardust. I traced the big dipper with my finger, or perhaps it was the little. The trapezoid and tail was a shape I had grown to love. I turned to her. “Your freckles form the big dipper ya know. “ A sigh escaped the thin lips of my first love. Later I would trace her face, call her my star, and stare at her like an astronomer, attempting to find meaning in an inconsistent pattern. The smell of pine drifted down to our cold, red, dripping noses. A stick poked up into my back. There was no real destination of perfection, but at that moment I had flown through the night sky holding the girl who liked me (really liked me) in my fingers that enveloped hers. I giggled, she shushed me. She had been raised in a house only a few steps away. Taken me to the place whe

Digital collages are really fun. I have enjoyed them very much because I like twisting and cutting and all of that jazz. I have also been making magazine collages. Here is some recent art! In class, we are doing something called a burning house memoir. I really enjoyed this assignment. I made a collage of all of the things that I would take with me if there was a fire. Not counting my family of course! I like the design aspect of this project.  I also made a collage of me as a muppet with various outfits. This was for my senior project, but I also love how funny this is.  I also made a collage of a banana