A Heartbroken Memory


Nicole Brito, who is completing her junior year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School, is known as the artist among her friends. She paints and sketches in her free time and then writes out stories to match her paintings. This painting is one of her most vivid pieces and was made using acrylic paint and magazine cutouts.


Published by theatala

the atala is designed, curated, & edited by the Pines Charter Chapter of the National English Honor Society. It showcases original student poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, literary criticism, and art. Like its namesake — the small, bright butterfly that grew from near extinction to rising numbers in our part of the world — this little literary journal aims to grow our love of writing and expand our community’s appreciation for the literary arts.

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