Scrapbook: Prose A collection of short pieces of prose.

Love, Cassidee It's Christmas Eve, and Cassidee Newland is in search of the perfect gift for her mother. Her sister warns her she's wasting her time, but Cassidee is desperate for her mother's approval and will wait forever for it if she has to.

1 Nine Ways of Looking at a Notebook Nine little poems arranged conveniently on one page. Inspired by Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird"

City Lights Sestina The story of a girl who runs away from the complications of life instead of facing it, because the conflicting opinions and influences are too much to handle. In the form a sestina.

Irony It's when your friends know who you really are, and love you anyway. When you're considered the normal one. When your favorite song just sounds so much better on the radio. Now that, Alanis, is ironic.

1 Night Sky My world is black and white, the quiet darkness of night, with black velvet skies and silver pinprick stars. But the world outside is more complex, a violent explosion of color, far more brutally intricate than the simplicity of my dark and lonely sky.

2 Ducks Humans are just big ducks in disguise. It's a universal necessity, the need to be in a familiar place. That place has always been, and will always be, our home.