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Memoirs of a Vegetable “So, do you really love him?” My friend Tracey Craigs asks me at lunch at Ian’s Diner in Trenton. We haven’t seen each other in a long time, me and Tracey. It is partly my fault, I suppose, for having my treatment stopped, therefore losing even more of my memory. Tracey - to think I’ve just recently remembered her. And we used to be best friends. She doesn’t know what I have become over the four and a half years we have been apart. I...

 Dear Susanna,         A Broken Fairy is an uncompleted 62,261 word contemporary fiction novel set in Lake Falls, a fictonal town in Wisconsin. This novel is targeted mainly toward yound adults.       With absent parents and seperated-though-foster-care siblings, the life of Rogue Elle Orfanelli has never been easy. Given the name of a broken and abused fairy, Rogue has always felt she carried the name a little to...

Introduction: New York University N.Y.U. College Application Essay Number One: Rogue Elle Orfanelli Who I Am Who am I? It is the only question I have never been able to answer on my own. I am my sister’s twin. I am my mother’s and father’s daughter. I am somebody’s worst enemy. I am another’s best friend. I am a teacher’s student and a probation officer’s juvenile delinquent. I am someone’s greatest mistake. I am my own worst enemy. I am my boy...

Introduction: New York University N.Y.U. College Application Essay Number One: Rogue Elle Orfanelli Who I Am Who am I? It is the only question I have never been able to answer on my own. I am my sister’s twin. I am my mother’s and father’s daughter. I am somebody’s worst enemy. I am another’s best friend. I am a teacher’s student and a probation officer’s juvenile delinquent. I am someone’s greatest mistake. I am my own worst enemy. I am my boy...

Vinnie My baby sister, Claire Bear, called me today. I was at the airport, not to be yet again deployed to Iraq, but to meet a friend and fellow soldier named Buddy Henshee, on his way home from war. Buddy was only nineteen, but he didn’t have any family to come home to. His old man, an army captain, had been a killed due to being the victim of hate crime in his own home fifteen years ago, when Buddy was only three , and his mother had died of heart failure a few years before that, when Budd...