Sasha Martinez

Ateneo de Manila University, Harrell Horne Integrated School

Poet-whore, moonlighting as Delusionist

'Ideas of Heaven' by Joan Silber, 'Come to Me' by Amy Bloom, 'Ann Beattie's 'Secrets and Surprises', 'Burning House' and 'Where You'll Find Me', Roland Barthes' 'A Lover's Discourse', Wilfrido Nolledo's 'But for the Lovers', Alice Hoffman's 'The Ice Queen' and 'Practical Magic' and 'White Horses' and 'Illumination Night' and basically everything she's written, 'Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold, 'Fall on Your Knees' by Ann-Marie Macdonald, 'White Oleander' by Janet Fitch, Lakambini Sitoy's 'Jungle Planet and Other Stories' and 'Mens Rea and Other Stories', 'The Virgin Suicides' and 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides, 'White Turtle' by Merlinda Bobis, 'The Giant's House' by Elizabeth McCracken, 'The Liar's Club' by Mary Karr, Isabel Allendes' 'The Stories of Eva Luna', Carol Shields' 'Dressing Up for the Carnival' and 'Unless'.

Kung Fu Panda, Leon, The Fifth Element, Enchanted, Juno, The Little Prince, Fight Club, Idiocracy, The Simpsons, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Almost Famous, Cars, Without A Paddle, A Very Long Engagement, Rent, Pirates of the Carribean 1-2-3, Million-Dollar Baby, Edward Scissorhands, White Chicks, The Notebook, Il Postino, Amelie, A Walk to Remember, Finding Nemo, Moulin Rouge.

Carla Bruni, The Moldy Peaches, Yael Naim, Paramore, My Chemical Romance, Feist, Urbandub, Dashboard Confessional, Maroon 5, The Killers

The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Loop, Kelsey Grammer's The Sketch Show (?), American Dad, Bones, Supernatural, House, Grey's Anatomy, My Name is Earl, That 70s Show, WWE: Smackdown, WWE: Raw, CSI, One Tree Hill, Friends, My Wife and Kids, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Lost, Charmed.

Virgo

Nineteen, from La-La Land (where everything is a metaphor and the citizens wear purple crowns.) Bailey's slugger, cherry stem tongue twister. Student of Creative Writing. A moving cliche. She ♥s Moosebert and very little else.

Tries to write. Reads too much for her own good. Spelunks for books by never-heard writers. Never makes sense of the world. Looks underneath her bed to see if her imaginary friend has left yet. Creates music videos in her head while she waits for trains. Holds fictional interviews to the other voices in her head. Constantly waits for the other shoe to drop. Drinks Dutch Mill while she thinks with lethal Mentoses. Has conversations with detachable showerheads. Has fond memories of the Mark Strand - Billy Collins tandem. Forever trying to figure out why the heaving hell her hair likes to be breeding ground for bougainvilleas. Likes to spell 'bougainvilleas'. Explores the intricacies of the word 'four'.

One-half of a moving cliche, loving it. Leads a life of sin and deception -- La Vie Boheme style. She's happy and she knows it; she claps her hands.

And here's more brainfart than you ever needed to have about me, from me: CLICKIE! Go get 'em tiger.

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