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	This week's ReEntry editor is an emerging writer trying to find topics to write about aside from demon posession. She is currently planning to move on her own to either San Francisco or New Orleans, and is one step away from begging for a place to live. Rawrrr, baybee. Samantha Marcelo Bowing Down to My Addiction

One thing that draws me into a journal is its descriptive writing style. For me, if a journaler can capture a moment in words, and do it well, then I will be loyal to that journal for a very long time. These journals are indicative of my favourite writing style, and these entries in particular are written in such a way that it seems I am right next to them at their respective moments.

So I Guess This Must Be Shove
The Best Imitation Of Myself

"waking up to the sun. birds outside my window. they hop like little old men. six a.m. snow everywhere. snowball fights abound. the world went in and out with each breath. lying on my bed feeling like myself, my blanket, my walkman, my cabin themselves all went in and out."

Laura has always had a beautiful way with words, but this entry has to be one of my favourites. All of your senses are employed while reading this entry; you can feel the peaceful drowsiness of waking up, hear the snowball fights, see the birds hopping along, smell the wood of the cabin, and practically taste the entire moment.

The entire entry is like this. Laura is a very introspective and perceptive person by nature, and this entry quantifies a lot of that. She is at a turning point in her life here and she knows it. She reflects upon it briefly, but in those few paragraphs I can feel that she has come a long way in her life. While reading this entry, I am reminded of just how confident we both are that she will turn out perfectly fine.

Utopian Descension
Obsidian In Amber

"a quiet life. a house with white picket fences in upper-middle-class suburbia. milk delivered to the doorstep every morning along with the morning edition of the day's papers."

Agent 102 is another with a captivating writing style. Or as my personal OIA motto says: "If people could bleed words..." OIA is exactly that. It is the portrayal of a life in the most honest terms.

This entry is effective because it paints the picture of "a quiet life" first. This allows for the image to be fresh in our minds as we read on. Agent 102 in this entry is expressing a concern about the stresses in his life. He does this through the image of the quintessential suburban life. According to him, "in the midst of stress and tension ... we do wish for such an utopian society."

This is one of my favourite OIA entries because it is brilliant. Plain and simple.

Schmalentine
RadiationBlue Journal

"standing in that brief glimpse of the new season made me feel more at home than anything, anywhere had for a long time. for a moment i was seven years old again, frank and i were climbing trees again, i was naive again."

This is such a beautifully written entry. It's actually the one that pushed RadiaBlue over to the other side of my occasional/daily read journal line. It starts off with a few musings about the upcoming Valentine's Day, and then goes to a scene at his school. He's just leaving the library when he sees "the orange sun kissing the campus."

I won't say any more on it, but this is one of the entries that I read when I'm feeling anything less than peaceful.

With this entry and with RadiaBlue in general, I always get the feeling that I'm following Steve around; like I'm "in his bubble," so to speak. That's a good feeling to have.

Illusions Never Turn Into Reality
Puce

"i felt like i was losing my mind. i stood, in the middle of the park, on the fountain. it wasn't turned on yet. and the circular thing around it that is usually covered with sunbathers and random freaks from the city was completely empty"

This entry has a slight "Catcher In The Rye" feel to it. Which could be a reason why it's so hauntingly excellent. Sarah takes this Holden Caulfield tone and makes it hers. From the first paragraph I'm already drawn in.

Again, I can't say too much in the way of why I like this without recanting the whole thing here, but reading this entry for the first time I couldn't help but sit there and nod at my computer screen after every point she makes. Every time I read it afterwards, that feeling of empathy is still there. It's pretty much my life! The best part, however, would be the scene in which the above quote is taken from. Surreal, movielike.

I think that this entry has got to be one of the best examples of pure, honest emotion that I've seen from Sarah.

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