New Fish #PlanetOrPlastic

This is a poem I wrote for the #PlanetOrPlastic contest on Wattpad and National Geographic.

I want new fish to fish today
I’m sitting by the bay.
The clouds are gray and far away
My task is underway.

I wish for carp to come on out
Or even speckled trout
I quickly see there are no fish
But soon I spot a different dish

The jellyfish I wanted
Made me slightly daunted.
I thought they’d many stingers
Not four legs tied together.
Still, it freely swims the salty sea
With not a wish to flee.

The next I caught was also not
Exactly what I thought.

I didn’t know that sea snakes
Could make themselves so straight.
Lines of green run in-between
I wonder what they mean.
I think they last ate long ago
Their figures are so hollow.

I start to feel a little scared
I’m very unprepared.

Then came the mighty turtle
That went through many hurdles.
Its shell contained a rounded gap
That’s covered with a cap.

I found no fish to fish today
I don’t think I will stay.
For what I found weren’t fish or prey
But human disarray.

There Are No Stars

I just made this really depressing poem and I just wanted to share this depression with y’all 😉


There Are No Stars
by Claire

I strain my eyes against the smoke
I struggle against a woeful croak
Factories and cars are immense cigars
and that is why today there are no stars

Generations before spoke of a sparkling sky
But now the constellations are not nigh
The gift of Artemis has been blotted out by our faults
Only under the dim gray moon we can waltz

Soon there will be no moon

As you can see, I’d have a heart attack if you rip a clean sheet of paper in front of me. So don’t do that unless you want to be responsible for my seizure.

The Phantom Killer (My Story)

I am 19 years old and I was with my boyfriend Louis Tomlinson, who is 21 years old. We were just sitting on a bench like normal people. It was 10:00 at night. It was really dark. There weren’t any street lights. So you had to stare really hard to know something’s there. Our car was 3 metres in front of us. Then we heard footsteps. We didn’t think much of it. Then we heard a rapping by the car. We froze. Louis whispered, “What was that?” I replied that I didn’t know. We decided to stay there. Because walking away would make noise. We would run if it’s needed. Then I heard a man talking, “C’mon get out. I’m waitin’ ” It must have been a man. He thought we were inside. Then he broke the window and I made the biggest mistake of my life. I screamed. The killer, whipped his head around and me and Louis ran. Faster than we ever had. We could hear his yelling at us and telling us to stop. I looked back and saw something flash in the moonlight. A knife. I thought killers used guns these days. Oh well. Good thing though. So we ran toward the library and banged on the door. When that didn’t work Louis broke the window and we jumped inside. I was bleeding from the shards but I didn’t care. I so wish I wasn’t wearing shorts and a T-Shirt. See, we’ve been in the library millions of times because I just love books. So we knew our way in the dark. We ran as quietly as we could up the stairs and kept running to the 3rd floor. We got to a long hallway. I told Louis to help me close as many doors as we can and hide in one room. He got the message. We went around slamming random doors and got inside another right when the killer came. Inside was a work desk with hundreds of papers on it, a sofa, a coffee table, a bookshelf, and a bathroom. Louis told me to hide under the sofa because the first place the killer would look was the bathroom. He used the telephone to call the police. We could hear someone running around opening doors, switching on lights, and slamming the doors again. All Louis said was “Please help, there’s a k—” before the killer burst into the room, knife in hand. I got a good look at him. He was about 6 feet tall. He was dressed in dark colours and had a white sack over his head with holes for the eyes and the mouth. Must be stinky in there. He turned on the light and was stabbed Louis in the upper arm. He screamed like a girl and fell down. Then I pulled the Sack Head’s leg from under the table. He fell down but quickly got back up. He completely didn’t realize that there was probably someone near him to make him fall down. He thought that Louis had somehow done that. Stupid. Or maybe not. He looked under the sofa as I tried to crawl out. He grabbed my leg and sliced it making blood pour everywhere. Incredibly disgusting. Then I heard something and realized something, we weren’t alone. I saw the door get flung open and some lady started yelling at us that the library’s closed and that we’re destroying property and it’s vandalism and we’re going to get arrested and that we are really bad kids and that we are in big big trouble. We tried to warn her but she wouldn’t listen. She was all, “No excuses, the library closes at 9:00, that was an HOUR ago!!! That was an expensive window you broke, you even broke the hinges on the door, AND the light switch. Save your words for the trial.” Then she finally seemed to notice the knife Sack Head was holding. I wonder why he didn’t strike yet, maybe he got confused, I guess that conversation wasn’t part of his to-do list. Lady, was it that hard to notice that we’re seriously hurt? Come ON!!! She screamed and ran out. The police FINALLY CAME. Then Sack Head threw the knife at Louis in frustration but missed. He started to punch me. Then the police came in and I blacked out.

I woke up in the hospital. I was in a bed next to Louis. The nurse told me that I had 3 broken ribs and had a broken jaw. Louis would survive and that he would be out of the hospital in 2 days. I could go tomorrow. I noticed that a lot of cameras and reporters were here. They all gave me space and they were taking millions of pictures. They didn’t ask questions they kept talking to each other about us and something like…the Phantom? What was that about? Maybe they weren’t here for me. When I was released. The reporters asked me a bunch of questions like, “What happened? Were you scared? What were you doing before it happened? Did you know that librarian? Do you know who the killer is? Do you know anything about the Phantom?” I tried to answer them all, but I didn’t know anything about the Phantom. They explained that in Texarkana there was a serial killer who killed a lot of people. They said my and Louis were the 4th and 5th survivors. Sack Head/Phantom confessed that he killer the others and he was sent to jail for life. Never to bother us again 🙂

So yeah this is the story I wrote for the iBooks Author project. My book is called You Don’t Want to Be a Victim of the Phantom! Before the librarian woman got hurt but I deleted that because it’s kind of scary and creepy. To me anyway.

Summer 6/20/2013

Today I went to Smokey Joe’s for the first time. I went to Costco and I bought soft baked chocolate cookies and my brother bought a Lego Book. Like an ideas book and stuff. And my mum order too much stuff at Smokey J’s so she drive to KHS to give them to my Guitar teacher. KHS is the music class place. my mum buys food for my guitar and drum teachers a lot. like every week. my guitar teacher is like 3~4 times a week. She buys food. And the violin teacha there is jealous and she ask me if i wanna lern vio cuz she want free food. i say no. and she disappointed. HAHA. My mom givs food to drum and guitar mostly at Saturday because that’s when I have class. And Guitar teacher lives very close so on other days she can drive to his house and give him the food. Like the food-we-don’t-wanna-eat-but-they-still-taste-good-but-I-don’t-think-so-but-my-mom-thinks-so-but-she-don’t-wanna-get-fat food. And the drum teacher live more far awat. And you know he is gonna help take care of my hamsters when I am at NASA and my mom and brother is in Canada. I SOOOO WANNA GO TO CANADA!!! SHE SAID SHE’S GO THERE TO MOVE THE BEDS TO THE BASEMENT OR SOMETHING BUT I DONT SEE HOW THAT WILL WORK SINCE THERE’S BARELY ANY ROOM IN THE BASEMENT CUZ OF THE JAPANESE ROOM BECUZ THERE’S A SMALL TABLE IN THE MIDDLE AND THE HUGE POOL BALL TABLE AND THE HUGE FOOSBALL TABLE WITH THE TOY KITCHEN BEHIND IT. MY BRO CAN GO TO GYMNASTICS AND I CAN’T!!! I <3 THERE!!! MOSTLY BECAUSE YOU CAN CLIMB THE ROPE AND I CLIMB THE HIGHEST THAN ANYBODY AT GYMNASTICS. EXCEPT NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT I THINK I’M TOO OLD TO JOIN AND I HAVE TO JOIN THE OLDER GROUP AND I DON’T WANT THAT. BECAUSE THEY CAN PROBABLY CLIMB THE ROPE EASILT AND I CAN’T REALLY IMPRESS PEOPLE. 🙁 I went 2 swimming 2day and my mom wanted me to buy new swim suit but i liked mine and i don’t want. When we go to swimming it’s usually lunch or something. we usually eat McDonalds. But this time we ate something like rice and some fish. BOO-RRINNGGGG. And we had water and som weird Taiwanese places DON’T HAV WATER AND SOME DON’T HAV ANY DRINKS. MOSTLY TEA OR SOMETHING. AND IM DYING OF THIRST HERE!!! we have water in car. that’s good. but i finished it too fast and then im thirsty again so my mum went to 7-11 to buy water YAY!!! I guess if we’re lost in the desert I’ll be the first to die cuz i get thirsty easily and i HATE being in hot places. I actually prefer COLD pizza thanHOT pizza.