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The Portfolio

This portfolio is divided into three sections: fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry.

The details contained next to each title are as follows: the first line of the work/a general description and the year in which it was created. If I can't remember the year it was written, I'll estimate. No questions asked. Seeing as this list runs in chronological order, I would start with the latest works, which are at the bottom of each category. But that's just me.

*IMPORTANT!* All of the following works are copyrighted to their respective owner, me, Melissa T. Every page that you access from the portfolio section will contain '© 2010 by MAT' at the bottom of the page (those are my initials). This is not public domain: this is my domain. I wrote and own every piece of writing you see here, and I am protected by copyright law in keeping these as my own.

Fiction

Watch | 'Sometimes, when she is not looking, he watches her.' 2005.
Apples, Melons, and Cherries | Not about fruit. 2006.
girl | Infatuation. 2006.
A Dream | Based on a blog entry and a dream. 2006.
A Dream, Two | Take two. 2006.
Piano Boy, or Perpetual Motion in Sixteenth Notes | Two boys take a language barrier and break it down with a piano. Written with the premise of writing exactly one sentence for fifty words. 2006.
A Well-Organized Soul | She is a well-organized soul, but the poor dear, how she does tire herself out. A woman, her boyfriend, and something discreet. 2006.
NaNo 2006 | Selected chapters only (XI and XII) from National Novel Writing Month 2006.
letter to lover saying once once once more | 'I really must stop myself now, or else I'll become crazy enough to really tap on your door and crush you, my delicate viola, in my arms once once once more.' 2006.
Variations on Violet | 'In a letter someone wrote to her once, Violetta counted sixteen variations on the common theme (Violetta).' 2006. 2007 Scholastic National Award Winner.
Wisps of Smoke | As fragile as memories. 2007. 2009 Scholastic Regional Award Winner.
Simple Wish | Flash-fiction. 'I want to be your everything.' 2007.
A Lady with Guns | Ma always said stick to your guns and you'll get yours. 2008. 2009 Scholastic Regional Award Winner.
The Short and Tall of Things | I am in the fifth percentile. The boy I love is six feet and two inches tall. Opposites attract? 2008.
With You I Climb Mountains | Together we climb mountains, and barriers, and countries. 2008. 2009 Scholastic National Award Winner.
How to Live your Life like it's a Music Video | The title says it all. 2009, excerpt only.
Dinosaurs | Flash-fiction. I have dinosaurs living in my stomach. 2010.
Rolling | Flash-fiction. Sisters in the city. 2010.


Creative Non-Fiction

Jet Plane Song Diary | A personal recollection, but not a good-bye. 2008.
Victim Here | This is an old story. 2008.


Poetry

Curtain | 'Nobody tells me I've got a / curtain in front of my face, / lady-lace to match the out-side world so I can see out...' 2003/4.
Long Distance Relationship | 'dial tone memories / untie phone cord / "good-by!"' 2005.
vintage rose | 'you were my / vintage rose / sweet musk that / filled my life...' 2005.
let me sing to you in high school | 'Let me sing to you in high school / In halls that know no boundaries, / In bathroom stalls that know no doors...' This is a published work. 2006.
Unrequited Correspondence | 'I shall write you letters full of grace / casual elegance looping my script / as I remark on the menial things / like the lover on your locker.' 2008.
The Post-PCS Diary | 'I have taken miles of road / and tried to shorten them: / laid my blush-flushed memories / down on pavement...' 2008.
let me tell you something you don't know | 'let me tell you something you don't know: this boy is beautiful.' 2009.
letters to future ex-boyfriends | Four of them. 2009.
Untitled | Your best friend falls in love. Here's my story. 2009.
the music | 'I am searching for the music.' 2010.
my name is not roanoke | And I am not a historical document of heartbreak. 2010.
to the boy who thought he could get lucky twice | I've got a few things to say to him. 2010.
cross my heart | Young at heart and growing older. 2010.