QUALITIES

Luscious

Luscious is a five foot two Latina with more spice and attitude than her best friend Meretricious. She's great at math but enjoys social studies more. She loves to sing despite the fact that she's no good at it. She grew up in the barrio with her abuela, Empathy and younger brother Ancillary.

During the weekdays she spends her time caring for her brother and making empanadillas to sell at church while abuela works three jobs to support her nietos. On Saturdays, her only free day, Luscious spends her time out on the streets of the barrio. Falling in lust and selling love to different men who don't respect her or see her as more than a coin on the curb. They'd use her body for what it offered. Contrary ti popular belief, Luscious was not a stupid girl... she'd just been used to being treated this way by men, nothing but an accessory or tool for their pleasure.


 Magic

Mr. Magic is scientific. He lives alone on hundreds of Acres or land, and looks at life on earth as phase.

Magic was my third grade teacher, he taught us that if you believe in yourself nothing could stop or hold you back from succeeding. He would bring specimens to class in old glass jars for us all to pass around and observe. We all stared at them completely amazed.

He spoke passionately and quickly, but not to quickly that you couldn't understand… Like spoken word poetry.  When he taught, he preformed as if he were on stage acting out Shakespeare. His feet kicked and shuffled, his hands danced along to the tone in his voice, resembling a signer for the deaf.

Mr. Magic painted galaxy’s on the board so we could see there was so much more complexity to life other than ourselves. He’d throw atoms and atrophic gases into the air creating neon cosmos.  All the third graders would “ ouh” and “ah”

And at the end of each day packed  with astonishment, Magic would hand out lollipops  They weren't just any lollipops though. These were large and spherical, resembling planets. We would always joke that he would stab planets and serve them to us. With one lick you could taste the stars.

Heroin

Heroins real name is a secret. He lives in the most unexpected and expected places all at once. Heroin wears his money on his sleeve. He takes things and people away from life. He is volatile, a sinister being. Him and his brothers, Coke, Meth, and ecstasy all share a middle name, Addiction.  The only woman that knows his real first name is the same woman that, despite everything he does to hurt himself promises that she will always love him. For a while he kept her, locked in the chains of his deepest darkest insecurities. Stuck in a room full of broken dreams shattered into pieces like smashed porcelain  The lock on the door is i love you, I'm going to change, I promise.  Heroin breaks promises, he tells lies. The only escape from this Lucifer comes from within.Yet every time she think about leaving him, her heart plummets back to zero like a carnival game of ring the bell. She repeats the words " I can save him!" She can't. He's  lost in the world of his own fantasies. 

LAUGHTER 

Laughter is so light, when she runs she floats on memories. Laughter doesn't always have the best manners but she sincerely makes an effort to. Laughter is an unexpected visitor,s he comes to weddings, schools, performances, and even sometimes interrupts conversations. Laughter never attends funerals. She is loved by all. 

Written by: Grace Keller