YM Shorts Magazine Issue #5 | Page 24

Wild Frontier has content with f Cellophane Glasses His name is Scotty Meiser. His life is hard to categorize, so here are some bullet-points: • He is a pastor’s son. • He has been a Christian camp counselor for five years. • He was born long and thin, and has more or less stayed that way. • He sings songs. • He acts. • He has edited Wikipedia. • He and his friend wrote a mariachi song about Canada. • As a child, he ate so many carrots his skin turned orange. • He hates Seventeen Magazine. • He’s a freshman at Cairn University in Langhorne, PA. • He has no idea where his life is headed • It is from this view, through is cellophane glasses, that Scotty shares his world. Thiscrazywriter Abigail is an imaginative girl who offers random pieces of fourteen-year old insight and poetry. Never expect anything normal to come forth from this young writer! Settle in for the (abbreviated) story of this life. “Children skip home from school, kicking off their shoes and heading straight for the sun-warmed fields. Bees buzz and fly in every which way, and a mild breeze tousles the leaves on the trees. This is late spring–the time of my birth. Perhaps the bursting life in this season symbolizes the imagination given to me. “My childhood was happy and carefree, for the most part. Most children my age preferred to play with plastic toys, but I spent much of my time basking in the noonday sun…and eating Vienna sausages. As I progressed into later elementary and middle school, I dealt with bullying, low self-esteem, and various other issues. Today, I am confident in myself as a person and hope to help end bullying and inspire others through my writing. “Take a stroll through my blog–see what you find in the garden of this girl’s strange mind!”