: About Me

There's not much to say. I came to North Carolina from Puerto Rico when I was five years old and have lived here ever since.

My parents pastor a Hispanic church and raised me in the church. (That can be both bad and good).

I am studying to be a psychologist at Winston Salem State University.

I have a son that just turned one in February and his brother will be born in August. I hope to have one more.

I am married to a man that I am still in love with whom I admire greatly.

I have always loved to write and hope to one day have the courage and expertise to write a children's fairy tale.

My passion is ...

Christ

I know too much about ...

Nothing-I am ashamed to say

My parents always told me ...

To put God first

My childhood ambition ...

Everything, vase maker, marine biologist, missionary

My favorite memory ...

They are all starting to accumulate, my wedding, the birth of my first child, finally getting my associates degree

Why I write ...

I love it! I feel like it keeps the creative juices flowing

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

I am in the middle of a historical romance novel (love them) but right now I am watching my son learn to walk

My first job ...

Mcdonalds "would you like fries with that?"

My best moment ...

Has not come yet

My inspiration ...

My goood friend Tamika, single mom and finishing her Masters

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Beauty

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Beauty Once upon a darkened time there lived a beautiful young woman with luminous olive skin and raven dark hair that flowed like silk down her slender back. Her eyes were green and shone like summer's morning grass kissed by beads of dew and illuminated by those first clean sun rays. Her mouth was full and red that smiled a smile that beckoned every eye to her command. There was nothing that was not exceptional about Beauty. Her nose, her cheekbones, her chin all seemed sculpted to perfection by the Greek marble masters of old. But still there was something, something that seemed to be m...

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