// ARTS UNLEASHED // SPRING 2010 // VOLUME 1

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// WELCOME to the Spring 2010 edition of ARTS UNLEASHED, Oviedo High School’s Literary Magazine. The magazine represents the finest ART and LITERATURE on the campus.

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ARTS UNLEASHED // SPRING 2010 // VOLUME 1 // OVIEDO HIGH SCHOOL

SPECIALthanks

Editors-In-ChiefCarson Bailey Julia Thorncroft

EDITORIALboard

Kristen Adkinson Erin BrunkalaCarolyn Cook Bryce FaganMerrick Ghali Timothy GoodeDellis Kassik Heath KerrFrank Lopez Michael MenaIvanna Miller Amanda NacinZachary O’Hanlon Tripp PionesAustin Rodriguez Kimberly Thevenin

Staff

AdvisorDeborah Jepson

Editorial Policy

Mr. Lunquist and Mr. Register: Nothing is possible without the support of the administration. We appreciate your continued support for the arts.

GFWC Oviedo Women’s Club: Thank you to President Nancy Garlanger, PR Chairman Angela Iversen,Chairman Regina Bereswill, and all the club members for awarding us a $500 Philanthropic School Grant.

Ms. Pope: Many thanks to Alicia Pope who insisted that we could do this and for her belief in the importance of art in our lives.

Ms. Letzo, Mr. LaWarre: Without your help, we could not have put out this magazine. Thank you.

Joe Alcorn: We owe a huge thank you to Mr. Alcorn for his $500 donation to the literary magazine.

Arts Unleashed Literary Magazine is produced by the Multimedia Technologies class. Students of Oviedo High School submited art and literature displayed in Arts Unleashed. Submissions are carefully considered by the editors and advisor based on creativity and quality. The cost is $5.00.

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COVERDesign by: Carson BaileyThe colors chosen for FUSE are cyan, magenta. yellow.

and black. Commonly known as CMYK, these four basic colors used in printing combine or “fuse” together to form all the other colors, just as our writers and artists have joined together to bring you ARTS UNLEASHED 2010

Dear Readers, The process of developing ARTS UNLEASHED began over the summer when Mrs. Jepson suggested that we bring back an OHS tradition and publish a literary magazine to highlight the very best of art and literature on the campus.

When the school year began, our first period class, Multimedia Technologies, brainstormed ideas for a name and theme.

After several hours of discussion, the class took a final vote and the theme FUSE emerged. “To FUSE” is defined as putting something together but “a FUSE” is a wick to light something combustible.

Our intent is to unite the campus through artistic expression and at the same time to cause an explosion of creativity to spill forth.

So off we went, determined to gather the best OHS had to offer, traveling to different art rooms, browsing through photographs and paintings, looking at sculpture. English teachers helped us discover wonderful poems, short stories, essays, and songs.

And here it is-ARTS UNLEASHED, unleashed yet fused together. Enjoy!

Miranda Harmon - Digital Photography

// Carson Bailey and Julia Thorncroft

EDITORS...a note from the

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A Hole in the WallAmanda Juliano

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What Hate Means to MeMirysa Robillard

A Poor MarriageRachel Bray

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DeceivingSadie Torres

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13SurvivalTriger Lopez

Winter SolsticeKrysal Secor

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Last DanceTaylor Schwarz

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A Veil of TearsCarlos Perez

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CONTENTS

How do I know?Payton Norman

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A World Lost in TimeGabrielle Van Ravenswaay

The Outside is the Only Definition

Janie Williams

The White WallDavid Stevens

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The Simple LifeConnor BaileySadie Yanckello

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Haiku OffTruman Flanders, Chelsea Mastrocola, and Bibi Kahn

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The SidelineJake Smith

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Sculpture

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Dreadful Sorrow

Anne’s Beneath the Willow Tree

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Tiffany Ray

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Carlos Perez35

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Cassandra Tolentino38

AwakeBria Boykin

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little kids.”June always went to bed far easier than he did. She rolled

to her side and snuggled her pillow frequently. “Nothing is coming through the walls, Quinn,” she had murmured. “Stop asking the neighbors if someone died here.”

“The Goblins steal kids,” he continued. “They might come through those walls and snatch ours.”

When Doreen was born, the comment was more centered: “Doreen will get stolen by the walls, June.”

There seemed to be, to Quinton, a pressing need to fix the hole after he caught his daughter trying to climb through it. His despondent tendencies, while plenty, weren’t strong enough to deter him from protecting their child from goblins of some sort. He knew what to do from his brother, who was in some sort of house renovation business or some kind–something rather. He bought the drywall, he bought the plaster, he already owned the tools. He measured, he cut, he spackled, sanded it down, waited a day, took a hammer and then smashed the hole in again.

This became the new pattern. It was much more satisfying than the Pringle dilemma or other obsessions.

There was something wrong every time Quinton attempted to fix June’s blow. Something terribly off. He sanded it down as smooth as he could but perfection was unobtainable, and he

continually smashed the hole in again. Doreen learned to sleep with the sound of her father working. Her affections were not wasted by his new project, but rather magnified later on when he began smashing in other parts of the house for practice. A sort of Goblin whack-a-mole, Quinton took his hammer and whammed the walls randomly with “take that,” and “hah,” and “fifty points you dirty trolls,” “steal my wife, why don’t you?” The kind letters from daughter to mother that Doreen had been writing in third period, or the

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// STORY Amanda Juliano

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Quinton had been avoiding the walls even before June’s death. He himself had torn many holes before June had torn her last.

S omething had to be done about the gash in the wall. That much was obvious. It was, Quinton knew, throughly improper to keep it framed and treasured as

the last remaining mold of June Olhouser’s head. He’d agree to listing that as an issue if it were actually the case. But as it stood, “treasuring”, he maintained, was “quite untrue.”

Quinton had much earlier accepted the responsibility of fixing the hole that his wife’s death had made in the drywall of their daughter’s nursery, but between the funeral planning, the cutting off ties with family, with friends, the worried phone calls, the subsequent avoidance and sometimes unplugging of the phone; the degeneration of the kitchen, personal hygiene, social life, energy, etc. From the unique ticks of becoming more or less obsessed with the futility of the Pringle shape, to the rest of the more typical isolation rituals that came with grief, Quinton just hadn’t found the time in the last five years or so to fix the June Hole that haunted his daughter’s room. It became a permanent fixture of the third door to the right, and the most solid proof that Quinton and his little Doreen had that June had actually been there.

As a matter of fact, the irregularly shaped hole was, for some time, the only consistent element of Doreen’s short though ongoing life sentence. While her father jumped from quirk to quirk, she spent a large portion of her time imagining her mother with a fun, lopsided head that fit the break perfectly. Still protected from the concept of mortality so long as she was under five, Doreen had a love affair with her only real parent: the hole. Her father MIA, she tried to identify with its shape as best she could, and was quite disappointed when her head didn’t exactly fit like a puzzle piece into the wall. In her youngest years, she could grasp the morbidity of her actions almost as well as she could

grasp June throughout her entire life. Her mother always remained elusive and fuzzy; a vacuum, or a vague sensation of absence. Doreen possessed the odd honor of a feeling of loss with no real familiarity; she could only hold onto more material things: her mother’s possessions, and a great big hole in the wall. She liked to imagine, sometimes, that if her mother could say something about the hole, it might be:

“Death? Heart attack? Goodness no. I made a hole when I fell, Dorey. Why in the world would I make a hole without any intention of going through it? I’m just on the other side.”

At six years old, Doreen was devastated to find that not only could she not reach the hole but there was also no way she, nor June, her father stated, could ever have fit through it. The charm of Doreen’s portal fantasy was lost on Quinton. He thought very little of her affection towards the hollow, and passed her room daily to not notice her staring at the hole in the wall where her mother should be. Instead, he thought that when June left you high and dry she really left you high and dry. He also thought: “It wouldn’t be hard to plaster that by myself,” and continued to think that very thought several times before he actually did it.

Quinton had, of course, been avoiding the walls even before June’s death. They had unnerved him when they bought the house; they unnerved him now. Physically, they were always structurally poor; he himself had torn many holes before June had torn her last. But there was something, he felt, eerily supernatural about the fragile walls.

“Trolls maybe,” he had told June while laying in bed one night. “Little Orphan Annie. The Goblins will get’cha if you don’t watch out.” He lolled his head back and forth a little and looked at her. “They’ll come through those walls. Snatch

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crafts that she had been making in pottery got gently tucked into Quinton’s warpath. Doreen vented and her mind and creativity to her mother, and when her father wasn’t home she’d steal from June’s old jewelry box and tuck her things into the walls as well. She was unsure of her father’s intentions but he would not be removing her mother from these walls, nor this house.

A large, gray cloud of dust seemed to obscure every clock and timepiece from view. Every birthday and holiday passed with a throaty wheeze from the house, and casual coughing fits from the inhabitants. Quinton tore holes in the structure, and Doreen kept the hole in her room perfect and irregular. In high school, Doreen walked with a little cloud at her feet when her shoes stamped hard and sent plaster dust curling into the air. Her hair was a bit grayer, and her skin a bit paler than the other students. If you bumped into her, she’d crumble a little, and leave a white, chalky mark where you touched her.

“Dad works at a cement factory,” she’d lie. “I go sometimes. It’s dusty there.”

“I’ll bet,” a boy would say, glancing at her dirty skirt, and ashy skin. “Hey, where do you live?”

And she wanted to describe her house as the one that looks like it’s imploding on the days when we open the windows and a breeze blows through.

But the house never imploded. It never fell down or collapsed as it looked like it should. It merely hacked out clouds of dust into the sky and made alarming sounds to the neighbors as Quinton smashed another hole in the wall and screamed “Don’t eat that!” at June. It appeared to him in his descent that he should have moved Doreen and himself out of the house so much earlier, but that the goblins had already snatched them both by down. His daughter looked pretty old to him, and he looked pretty old to himself, and he was quite certain that in his death he would not leave a hole. Rather, he would leave nothing but broken plaster, drywall, and dust.

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HATEwhat means to meApprehensive is the one of the lunch counter,Arms spread wide as if the Berlin Wall was in our way.I can’t place my finger on what’s wrong about her All I wanted was to get lunch today.

Almost cheerful are the sounds of the clamoring dishes,Grand is the sound of the food I hear.I feel as that of an Amish, for I have simple wishes,Perhaps a sandwich and, if I’m lucky, a beer.

This relates to the stories of the Greensboro Four,Or the boycott marches with their picket signs.Such a rebellion has not seen the light of day before.The way they look down upon us, they must feel divine

As if they were in the clouds of heaven,And we were the curses of Pandora’s boxAll I wanted was lunch today.Why must this wall stand in the way?

// POEM Mirysa Robillard

Carly McCarthy - Digital Photography

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Love is painful, Yet we bear through it.Love is blind,

Yet we let what we see dictate our attraction.Love is harsh,

Yet we keep on going.Love.Pain teaches us, So why don’t we strive for stupidity?Pain is blind, It attacks us all.Pain is harsh,

Why do we not help everyone then?Pain.Intertwined, intermeshed, like a bad marriage unable to Be dissolved-Pain and love, Are stuck with each other.Unfortunately, Fate is nothing but a b**** who is a poor matchmaker.Pain and love, Forever intertwined.

// POEM Rachel Bray

Carly McCarthy - Digital Photography

Let’s Hold Hands - Julia Thorncroft - B&W Photo

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When the rest of the worldIs sitting, waiting for life to go on,I am here.When no one wants to hear about your day,I’ll be polite and ask you how it went.I’ll listen to every word you sayAnd help you with problems you may have encountered.I will be there.When the world turns up side downAnd you can’t bare the headaches ofBeing backwards,

// POEM Sadie Torres

DECEIVINGI will be there to turn it right side up.When every one is cheering for you at theBiggest performance of you life,I’ll try to be there and helpMake the crowed louder,When you need someone to help you withMultiplication and division problemsCall me and I might answer.When the skies suddenly turn darkAnd rain starts to fall,Come knock on my door andI might be home.When you want to send me a picture of

How your vacation was then send me an e-mailOf how it went,But I probably won’t reply.When you want me to be at your funeralPreaching about howMuch of a hero you’ve become to me,I will, I will preach about howI was not able to make it.When you’re floating above, your body wonderingWhy I didn’t go, why I failed youIt’s because I was never thereIn the first place.

Nick Caruthers - Mixed Medium

I’m so lostI can’t find my wayAll I can hear is buggles play

As I crawl through the fieldsMy heart pounds with fearAs the enemy grows near

Through the trenches we have all treadWe’ve come so farBut now most are dead

I try to still stand tallFor 1 and allBut my courage is slowly fading way

I long for the dayWhen we can all be freeTo live our lives so peacefully

As I fight for my lifeI keep this mindI’m doing it for all of mankind

For some death comes quickFor others the wound never healsFor me I feel were all heroes

“The Greatest sacrifice is the one we never hear about”

SURVIVAL// POEM Triger Lopez

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WINTERsolstice You can sense dread in the trees as winter approaches.With its freezing temperatures and robbing of the sunlight.With its chilling winds and blinding storms.And yet when I look to winter all I see is the beautiful new fallen snow,

and crystals hanging off the sleeping trees.When I think of winter I see new beginnings, and life put on hold so we can enjoy what we can of this wonderful season.I long for the passion that is winter.

// POEM Krystal Secor

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Step forward, step backward, then ball-change, turn,Slow the tempo, adagio, and let the room burn.The violins tremble, their speech becomes slurred,No chastising, please, I will not listen to trivial words.Breathe it in now, the resign mingles with the clinging smoke,The flames sting, tears they bring, as you sweetly choke.No resisting, no regrets here, let yourself become consumed,Resist, regret, but you will not forget and inevitably seal your doom.Relax and let go, this dance is too slow to belligerently rush,And we stop now to take a quick bow as the room take on a hush.Cherubs tug at the frayed age of the tapestry we weave,And much to spite our luminous night, it is time to leave.And both of us know it is time to let go, but do so with regret,But we will complete the metamorphosis into independent patrons yet.No turning back time, there is no rewind in the moments that waltz by,But soon they will be gone and the peace will dawn before there is time to cry.So in the meantime…Step forward, step backward, then ball-change, turn,Slow the tempo, adagio, and let the room burn.

// POEM Taylor Schwarz

Abby Wakas - Photo Manipulation

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My king, my tender lamb, how radiant is heLike a little pearl in my hands, somehow…He’s holding me.

My eyes veiled by tears, knowing what the future liesThe Day when the Sun hides, life prostrates, when my King dies.

He counts all the stars on my veil, the souls He will save.For love alone, He was made

Oh! How my soul will die when He’s laid on the treeInstead of saving Him, I cry…”My Son…save me!”

a veil of // POEM Carlos Perez

Carlos Perez- Mixed Medium

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Ben Carroll - Sculpture

How could you do thisWhy would you put me through thisI can’t believe itSo unexpectedI cared for youI was there for youNo sympathyFor what you did to me

ChorusI tried so hard to win youIt could have been just us twoFor a whole year I wished you were mineBut you left me on the sideline

// LYRICS Jake Smith I just wanted to feel your skin Without you pushing me away againYou want me to be there for you But that’s just something I can’t do Because…

Chorus I tried so hard to win youIt could have been just us twoFor a whole year I wished you were mineBut you left me on the sidelineYou left me on the sidelineYou left me on the sideline

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How do I know?It’s the way my eyes were locked,And the way yours drifted off,By an unseen image yours were blocked,So now I know the truth.

KNOW?how do IBackside 180 - Ryan McGuire - Digital Photography

// POEM Payton Norman

How do I know?It’s the way your words floated high,Lonely and sad,Along with your lie,So now I know the truth.

How do I know?These burdens in your eyes are present,With secrets that nobody knows.Allow them please to descend,‘Cause now I know the truth.

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To be a kid againWith nothing but time.My world is small,But it is my own,And I know It’s like the back of my hand.The swing set is my throne,And the playground is my kingdom.I look to the sky-It does not seem so big,How could its clear blue armsHold the troublesSaid to be in the world?Impossible, I say,There is nothing elseOnly this swing set,Only this playground,Only this carefree world of mine,If only I still had the time,If only my world wasn’t so immense,I wish I had my throne.I wish I had my kingdom.I wish the sky didn’t seem so big,I wish I had my freedomWithout the restrictions of society.I want my carefree world back.

// POEM Gabrielle Van Ravenswaay

Liz Carroll - Sculpture

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A blank stare from the white woman--She draws a line between black and whiteJust as the photograph shows the evidence.

Questions arose between her morals and justice.

The face of sadness opens the white woman’s arms,But the sadness in their eyes brings hatred,

Not an open embrace she would have for a weeping friend,Like the belt around the white woman’s waist.

The people standing feel their rights being squeezed away.They all wear the same clothes, the same color of clothes,

But they are not judged on the reversible colors,But the only color that is unchanging.

All that the women and the men want is justice,And all that the woman standing alone wants

Is to remain unchangedThe same building, the same food,

Same material put onto the counter…

But the only thing that matters Is the black and white

Found on the Outside

Of the same people.

// POEM Janie Williams *Response to a photo of the Greenville Four.

Tova Kranz - Digital Photography

OUTSIDEthe is the only definition

As if they were in clouds of heaven,And we were the curses of Pandora’s Box—

All I wanted was lunch today.Why must this wall stand this way?

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Apprehensive is the one lunch counter,Arms spread wide as if the Berlin wall was in our way.I can’t place my finger on what’s wrong about her—

All I wanted was to get lunch today.

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Almost cheerful are the sounds of the clamoring dishes,Grand is the sound of the food I hear.

I feel as that of an Amish, for I have simple wishes,Perhaps a sandwich and, if I’m lucky a beer.

This relates to the stories of the Greensboro Four,Or the boycott marches with their picket signs.

Such a rebellion has not seen the light of day before.The way they look down upon us, they must feel divine

As if they were in clouds of heaven,And we were the curses of Pandora’s Box—

All I wanted was lunch today.Why must this wall stand this way?

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If I woke up tomorrow with no technology, the world as I know it would be over. No way to communicate with my friends in other neighborhoods, no way of getting to school or even no electricity to see myself in the dark. The modern day world is so accustomed to the advantages that we have, that we are dependent on them. If there was no technology, people would assume the world was over. When in reality if you look around, the world has everything you need to survive. The sun gives us a sense of time, the trees in the rainforest give us shelter, and the stars in the sky give us a sense of direction. Everything we need and even more is on this planet; we just need to open our eyes to the foundation of it.

// ESSAY EXCERPT Connor Bailey

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Perchance one day we can all fill that aching hole in our souls through the beauty of simplicity. May we all find one day that we don’t really need a BlackBerry, an iTouch, or a laptop to be happy. Many people are happy with all these things, but they also know, just like Thoreau did, that keeping it basic leads to a happier life: simplicity, simplicity, simplicity…

// ESSAY EXCERPT Sadie Yanckelllo

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I’m in love with herShe is my light in the darkYou’ve stolen my heart

// POEM Truman Flanders

Far away from hereIn the arms of the angelsMay you find peace, Mom

// POEM Chelsea Mastrocola

We were meant to beThrough laughter and tearsWe’ll conquer our fears

// POEM Bibi Kahn

Going into the Abyss - Casey Hayes - Mixed Medium

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Miranda Harmon - Mixed Medium

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Miranda Harmon - Mixed Medium

Cayman Wood - Painting

Elizabeth Baker - Mixed MediumMiranda Ghali - Huichol

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Madie Howeller - Digital Photography

Emmalie Mitchell - Photo Manipulation Bicycle - Miranda Harmon - Digital Photography

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Madie Howeller - Digital Photography

Cora Campbell - Digital Photography Erika Manning - Photo Manipulation

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Jordan Reeve- Sculpture

Ryan Ridenbaugh - SculptureEdward Squire - Sculpture

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Colin Baker - Sculpture

Emily Blair- Sculpture Lilliana Rivera-Penaloza - Sculpture

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Joe Potchen - B&W Photo

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Beach in Cozumel - Ryan Maxon - B&W Photo

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// SHORT STORY Jessica Flachner

train and I accompanied him until he boarded. He held me in his arms and promised to be back as soon as he could. I told him there was no need to hurry; his mother had just passed and he needed time with his mourning family. He smiled and thanked me, then kissed me goodbye, not wanting to let go of my hand as he stepped up onto the massive train.

As the train darted out of the station, I strolled down the corridors of the building and was heading out to my car when I suddenly felt the earth shake and heard the rumbling of what turned out to be an awful collision. I held my breath as I rushed back to the dis-patch, but couldn’t see or hear any news of what had occurred. All I could hear were sirens blaring in my ears, and when I attempted to ask a police officer for information, all he did was yell over the deafening noise and ordered me to step back, away from the tracks. The sirens didn’t die down, but my ears became used to the clamor and I could finally faintly hear the din of conversation. What I overheard made me want to curl up in a ball on the hard ground beneath me and weep, to be left alone and stay there in solitude as the world spun around me, never to bothered again. The train had crashed and overturned while departing from the station. The tracks it had been traveling on had been rickety and unstable, and enormous machine was

not able to steer safely.My love had been on that train. I began to sob and

attempted once more to receive information from a police officer, but he pushed me away and told me to stand back as he took care of the situation as best as he could. At that moment, I had no idea whether he was dead or alive, but I was to find out soon that the only man I have ever come to truly love was gone, never to return as he promised.

If there’s anyone to blame for my dreadful sorrow, it’s no one but myself. I let him go, as if I led him to his certain death. I could’ve kept him from go-ing; I could’ve prevented the painful breaking of my

heart alongside him, having the chance to be with him outside of this world, in a place where misfortune ceases to exist. Yet I am here, looking upon his body that was retrieved from

the site of the disaster and saying my last good byes.The unfortunate calamity occurred so abrupt and

so sudden, that sometimes it feels as I’m in a dream and I’ll soon wake up to see him lying next to me once again. But I know that everything was real and noth-ing I do or say can bring him back. And nothing I do or say, not one action I display or one word I speak, will revive the love that was so quickly lost that one icy afternoon.

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If there’s anyone to blame for my dreadful sorrow, it’s no one but myself. I let him go...

I t’s been two days. Two days since I felt the warm touch of his hand, the sweet smell of his skin. It’s been too many days since I tasted the lips that kept

my heart beating and looked into the eyes that cap-tured every moment. The body I now gaze upon, so lonely, so cold, is only the shell of the man I fell in love with. I try to search for the eyes that used to fall upon me, so soft and beautiful, but all I see are two white marbles, glassy and round. I reach for his hand but cannot hold on very long, for it’s freezing to touch. The wood surrounding him makes everything seem even more distant, and I try to hold back my inevitable tears as one delicately lands on his pale cheek. As the man above me begins to speak, I realize I soon have to let go, never to taste, touch, or feel everything I have come to love so deeply, so purely. I want so badly to blame my dreadful loss on someone, to hate for my sorrow, but I know that if there’s anyone to blame, it’s no one but myself.

That one icy winter afternoon, when everything was perfect and it seemed as if nothing could break what held us so tightly together, we said goodbye. He received a tragic phone call of his mother’s death, his expression dismal at the sound of his father’s voice. He asked his son to travel down the river to his home, the weeping making it unbearable to refuse his request. I begged to come along and help comfort the sweet old man, but he kindly shook his head, stating that he needed time alone with his grieving father. The quick-est route down the frozen Saint Peter’s river was by

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WILLOWthe tree// LYRICS Tiffany Ray

Anne’s beneath the willow tree, White lilies in her hair. William’s with his sweetheart,His palms on cheeks too fair.

Anne’s beneath the willow tree. Come home, come home, he bade. Lie here in the grass with me. Her white dress a slipping shade.

Sweet Anne, will you marry me?Crying, crying eyes of rain. Here is our resting place; I promise you our sun won’t wane.

William’s under the willow tree.Sun sets darken Anne’s face. You cannot love me. Your love is for this place.

Crying, crying eyes of rain. William’s planted to this place.

Anne lies sleeping. William knows he cannot stay. William calls, marry me, marry me,But the weeds cling to the grave.

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O how blood flows like rivers through the earthAnd walls dividing us into a web of ignorance.

Consider the human race as nothing but the latticesIn the niches of a lamp,Through which one light shines.

Or as an intoxicating rose gardenOf which the Nightingale loves all equally.

Do not mourn on The Day of ReckoningFor surely love is the power of creationAnd love inspired the Creator to shape usOf sounded clay. Is love not forgiving?

// POEM Carlos Perez

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I t’s when you’re driving together at 2:05 in the morning and you’re listening to your song.A song that is not only yours and no one else’s and then

she reaches her head over to kiss you and nothing can go wrong, but instead of kissing your lips she kisses your cheek and you can’t help but take your eyes off the road and kiss her on the nose.It’s when she despises her feet, but you play with her toes anyways. It’s when you can remember the first time you kissed walking down her drive holding hands February 2, 2009. It’s when you always talk about making a secret way to say I love you to each other and the way you look at each other becomes that sign.And you’re comfortable enough with one another where you pee with her in the room.And you both constantly talk about your future plans when you’re bride and groom.It’s when you kiss till you’re gasping for a breath and then you breathe just enough to kiss her more.When you tickle her and she tickles you until somehow you both fit on the backseat floor. When after only a couple of days of knowing yourself how you feel about her and you tell her by asking her to marry you.And almost a year later you’re discussing baby names and just to talk about her you ask her questions about herself with answers you already knew. When you’re in a friend’s bathroom together and she splashes water on your chest so you mess up her amazing hair by pouring water on her head.When you go to her window in the middle of the night to wake her up and she left the light on so you see her sleeping so you let her sleep because you know how much she loves her bed.It’s how you do crazy spontaneous things for each other, like make a three-disc mix CD all about her, or make an endless

// POEM Aaron Rodriguez

Caitlyn Braswell - Photo Manipulation

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list of reasons you love her. When she can forgive you so undeservingly and look at you as what you are becoming now what you were.When you realize that you would die for her, but more importantly you would live for her when she bites your bottom lip and you want to cry because it’s so darn cute when she says grrr.When you have never had an argument except for all the disputes about who loves whom more.It’s when your checking out her spine and you’re finally a hundred percent sure that she really is a dinosaur when she adorably whispers rawr. When you lay in a hammock cuddling for three hours straight, and you call her your girlfriend and she calls you her boyfriend yet you’ve never been on a date.When you notice the slightest habits of hers like how she fidgets with her hands and she loves to touch your face.It’s the feeling you get after you have spent the entire night with her and after three seconds of leaving her arms you choke up and turn around, and beg her for therapeutic embrace. It’s when she makes you want to be a better person, a better man, and it slits you like a rusty razor to think of her sad.When you can tell her how you really feel about your mom and she can talk to you about her tenderness from the loss of her dad.When she’s the only determining factor of your physical, mental, and emotional health.When you still vividly envision the way her every inch was shaped, the way she tasted, and oh my goodness her scent.And you know it’s wrong but your feelings for her are unconditional and your romance was over flowing as far as attachment went.When your relationship is founded on your conversations not

your intimacy with one another.It’s when you don’t jump from nothing to a secret lover but fall for her because your closeness as a brother.It’s when you don’t even contemplate a life without her as the one with whom you’ll grow old with.When just to warm her up you pretend that you’re cold.When her needs come before your own.A devotion so intense, so passionate, it’s the happiest state you’ve ever known. It’s when you want to know every little thing about her and you want her to know everything about you.It’s knowing she will always be there with you and for you no matter what stupid thing you do.When your eyes are opened and you begin to look down on everyone who doesn’t feel what you feel. It’s when you talk to everyone about her and find a way to bring her into any conversation and tell your friends and family that she’s the one and youre planning to kneel when you pass each other secret notes only you each can read and you tell her she’s more beautiful without makeup on.It’s when your chest gets weak and your eyes get shaky

because you realize how much you’re going miss her tomorrow when she’s gone.It’s accepting all her faults and having an incomprehensible mix of pain and elation.What the Encyclopedia Britannica defines as too complicated to define as a euphoric sensation.

When she reminds you of things you’ve forgotten about yourself and she’s got you figured out.It’s when you want all to know that she’s yours and you can’t believe you’re so fortunate to have her, but you have not a single doubt.It’s the butterflies you get when someone mentions her name.

It’ something you can only authentically feel once after that it’s never the same.It’s when you cry for no reason and you’re really happy.When you get to that point when everything you say to her may seem to everyone else is sappy.But no one can break your limitless bond and nothing can keep you apart.It should originate in but not only come from your heart.How you blow raspberries in her belly and give her wedgies just to get that side part of her eyes to wrinkle.It’s patient, it’s kind, and it’s the way even in her silhouette her eyes twinkle.It’s how her presence makes you cry, but her absence makes you wail.It’s the word that frees us all from the weight and pain of life, and it’s been known to make its users forget to exhale.It’s when you have that serenity where you just can’t stop smiling and it can affect any ageIt’s when you sometimes disappoint each other, but never respond with rage.When she only talks face to face, but gives you that up and lets you call her once and you end up playing that game trying not to be the first to say bye.It’s that unexplainable rush of not envy, just jealousy you get when she’s even near another guy.It’s how everything and anything gives you another chance to think about her, like how she loves the stars and you think clouds are way better, or when you’re walking through the grass and an ant bites your foot and all you can think is how she’s allergic to ants.When you see someone leaving Publix and it’s raining and they whip out an umbrella and instantly you think how she adores the rain and how much she hates umbrellas.It’s that you saved her shoe and she’s a crazy flirtatious cutie who created.And then you dread that one thought without her what would you do.It’s something special and it’s because of you.

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It’s when she makes you want to be a better person, a better man, and it slits you like a razor to think of her sad.

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Day after day, a young village boy abandoned his chores to visit the forest. Sunlight kissing only the canopy, the forest was dark grey but green as ever with the many leaves. A tree spirit watched him, spoke to him, answered the child’s questions. Over time, they had become friends. One day, late winter, the boy ventured into the forest only to find a stump. Glum, he returned home late and was scolded by his father. “My child, do not give up your chores!” He com-manded. “Now, help me out with the firewood. We have a whole tree to disassemble.” The boy took an axe, but stopped. He remembered the tree, and in death, it remembered him.

// POEM Cassandra Tolentino

Organic on organic - Kevin Eubanks - Mixed Medium

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By no means have I ever felt more alive.Jersey.Just the word so entrancing,Like a mere man casting his final hook in me.

The sound of buzzing cars passing you like dragonflies,Racing to the finest nectar in town.How no matter what time of year, the weather is always just right.Liveliness is a state law; every moment.Is the new most amazing time of your life.Walking into my grandfather’s house, the smellOf home cooked meals giving me high-fives.Nothing unusual, but I know I’ll never adore food in the way I do his.

// POEM Bria Boykin

Ryan McGuire - Digital Photography

AWAKEHouseholds with basements and furniture from the 60’s,Like you see in the movies, and as if time were never ending.A sense of home placed within my heart,That appears only when I’m here.The sensation of security caressingMy arms as if I were a ripe apple being strokedRight before the first bite.

The parks full of jubilant ankle biters,Only grasping the here and now,The light-post lit streets in the night bustling with party-goers,The grey yet heavenly spring afternoons,The belief I receive that doubtDoesn’t exist and nothing will go wrong.‘Cause this is it, everlastingly, the safest of havens.Jersey.

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INDEX

POEMSBoykin, Bria - 39Bray, Rachel - 11Flanders, Truman - 23Kahn, Bibi - 23Lopez, Triger - 13Mastrocola, Chelsea - 23Norman, Payton - 18Perez, Carlos - 16, 35Robillard, Mirysa - 10Rodriguez, Aaron - 36 - 37Schwarz, Taylor -15Secor, Krystal - 14Stevens, David - 21Tolentino, Cassandra - 38Torres, Sadie - 12Van Ravenswaay, Gabrielle - 19Williams, Janie - 20

SCULPTURE

PAINTINGSCasavant, Morgan - 24Hayes, Casey - 11Laschance, Brittany - 24Wood, Cayman - 25

PHOTOGRAPHYBogan, Alex - 30Braswell, Caitlyn - 36, 32Brown, Emily - 21Carey, Angiee - 31Compbell, Cora - 27Crowthers, Desiree - 34Eubanks, Kevin - 35Greene, Aaron - 31Harmon, Miranda - 5, 26

ESSAYSBailey, Connor- 22Yanckello, Sadie - 22

AUTHORS

ARTISTSMIXED MEDIUMBaker, Elizabeth- 25Caruthers, Nick - 12Eubanks, Kevin - 38Ghali, Miranda - 25Harmon, Miranda - 24 Hayes, Casey - 22Lawn, Callisa - 9, 16Nungesser, Haley - 15Perez, Carlos - 16

Baker, Colin - 29Blair, Emily - 29Carroll, Ben - 17Carroll, Liz - 19Reeve, Jordan - 28Ridenbaugh, Ryan - 28Rivera-Penaloza, Lilliana - 29Squire, Edward - 28

COLOPHONArts Unleashed: FUSE Literary

Magazine 2010 was produced on Apple Macintosh G5 computers.

All spreads were designed using Adobe Indesign CS3. Adobe Photoshop CS3 was used to edit all art work.

Titles are set in Helevetica Neue Condensed Black and Helevetica Neue UltraLight size 68 and size 55 respectively. All body text is set in Baskerville, size 11. Art credits are set in Helevetica Neue size 9 font.

FUSE was printed by Lawton Printers of Orlando, Florida. The cover is 80# gloss cover and the inside pages are 80# gloss text.

LYRICSSmith, Jake - 17Ray, Tiffany - 34

Howeller, Madie - 26James, Simone - 30Kranz, Tova - 20 Manning, Erika - 27Maxon, Ryan - 31McCarthy, Carly - 10McGuire, Ryan - 18, 39McGloin, Shannon - 13Mitchell, Emmalie - 26Potchen, Joe - 30Wakas, Abby - 14

SHORT STORIESFlachner, Jessica - 32Juliano, Amanda - 8

COPYRIGHT 2010 by Arts Unleashed, a publication of Oviedo High School. The views expressed in Arts Unleashed do not necessarily reflect those of the Arts Unleashed staff at Oviedo High School. After first publication, all rights revert to the author/artist.

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