Performed by Val Cole

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*1. What is your short story about? *

A biomythography of a childhood experience: a difficult, traumatic memory,
and a healing that took many years. I describe the experience of growing up
with a mother who had mental health disorders, raising fiv...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Across three generations, one house refuses to be forgotten.In The Hollowing, documentarian Eva Maren enters the abandoned Blackthorn House to capture its secrets - only to discover the mansion records human sorrow like a living archive. ...

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BUY th...

Performed by Val Cole

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1) What is the theme of your poem?
Sticks and Stones explores memory, guilt, and the way childhood experiences
shape how we understand ourselves. It's also about how coping is varied and
deeply individual — how different minds, different bodies, and ...

Performed by Val Cole

Mindy and Tracey have to find a way to pay tribute to both their father's in a way that feels appropriate to them.

Performed by Val Cole

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Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

POEM:

Loving in a Constellation

The realization came at the end of high school,
the time you or I begin to question our beliefs,
or at least start trying.

Her romantic love and energy
could extend to more than one person,
within and past state borders, across time zones...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

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1. What is your short story about?

My short story is about a white, evangelical man who thinks he's entitled to everything--especially women.

2. What genres would you say this story is in?

I would say this falls under d...

Title: Manipulative Ways

Author: Cheryl Smith

Type: Feature-length Film

Logline: When a young woman unexpectedly takes possession of a winning
lottery ticket, she finds herself ensnared in a web of deception and
escalating violence as she struggles to keep it.

Summary:

The story begi...

Performed by Val Cole

Peformed by Val Cole

POEM:
Gray is my favorite color,
So unbelievably pristine,
So much emotion behind its blank facade,
A limbo between white and black,
Between love and pain,
Between joy and sadness.

Gray is balance.
The color so often seen as plain or boring,
That some people call the color ...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val Cole

THE PLANET THAT DOESN'T EXIST, 8min., Israel
Directed by Nadav Embon
Professor Star l'Etoile set at her desk, her notes, were packed into spiral leather bound notebooks, stacked one atop of the other.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOizUIxjJX_/?igsh=MTVtbW40YTU5NDFmaQ==

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