Nephartitti Gray, 16, said that she thinks journalism is alright.
She has been writing poems and short stories since she was 9 or 10 years old.
She writes poems about random things, and there are reasons why.
Writing poems and stories help her to " release a lot of stress."
It helps Gray to express her feelings without hurting other people's feelings.
Gray writes poems about family and draws pictures, she said.She colors her pictures, too.The drawings tie into the poems and the stories that she writes.
In one of her stories, she wrote about why things happen in life, she said.
She wrote a poem for a competition at her school, and that the poem was based on one her short stories.
Gray said that she won second place for a poem that she had written, and the reward was that her poem was published in the school newspaper.
Only one person has read her poems and stories, and that person really liked them, she said. That person was her sister Aaliyah Gray, who is 13. Nephartitti said that her sister is the only whom she can trust with her personal business. She said that she is shy because she doesn't want everybody to know her business.
Gray goes to Northside High School in Roanoke, Va. Journalism might be a interest to her,but the career that she really wants to do is to be an anesthesiologist.
