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Maami, by Phebe Emmanuel
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Aug 13, 20215 min read
How to Steal a Language, by Olga Musial
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Aug 11, 20211 min read
+38, by Anthy Strom
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Aug 6, 20213 min read
Medusa, by Satori McCormick
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Aug 4, 20211 min read
Open Her Up, by Ouanessa Nana
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 28, 20211 min read
There was no paradise behind, by Aaqib Khatibi
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 23, 20211 min read
Stars Don't Discriminate, by Olivia Cai
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 21, 20214 min read
Weather Story, by Kim Horner
On Aug. 8, 2011, the temperature in Dallas was expected to soar above 100 for the 37th day in a row. The big question was whether we...
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Jul 19, 20211 min read
Victor, by Ainsley Atwood
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 14, 20212 min read
Tides Rise, by Kelsey Flynn
Tides rise and walls fall A system built to keep muddy water from collapsing white walls Infrastructure made to keep fish in their barrel...
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Jul 13, 20212 min read
Sestina of Moscow, 1812, by Emilia Kelly
This piece is part of our “Tails + Tales” teen summer writing initiative inspired by the 2021 national summer reading theme chosen...
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Jul 7, 20219 min read
Tithing, by Sean Dolan
I. The Collector knocks on our door in the middle of the night, beating on the cherrywood to the rhythm of an old incantation. We awake,...
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Jun 30, 20213 min read
The Little Mermaid, by Cezarija Abartis
He did not expect the heartache of his life to lead to this bar and this barstool and this mermaid on Halloween. She pushed the green...
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Jun 23, 20211 min read
Fight Scene, by Jessica Sabo
Baby ballerinas skipped to Tchaikovsky, fine threads of hair crowning their heads and my hair, so tightly pulled into a knot my forehead...
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Jun 16, 20211 min read
Swamp Monster, by Emily Rozitis
At the very bottom of my bathtub, there is a space for the darkness. It exists for the dark ...
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Jun 9, 20212 min read
Gracie's Gift, by Lindsey Morrison Grant
I did not have any kinship with plants of any kind growing up. My experience was all vicarious. I was envious of my grandmother's ability...
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May 26, 20211 min read
Delta Means Change, by Lisa Lundeen
What is the landscape of my life these days? Mudflat sounds about right—the mud part and the flat part, messy, shoe-sucking,...
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May 19, 20216 min read
I Have Always Relied on the Kindness of Strangers, by Jillian Damiani
Between New York and Connecticut: March 11, 2020 With a CVS-manufactured cane covered in cheap florals and two bags worth of case folders...
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May 12, 20213 min read
Collisions, by Ben Kassoy
I spent so many days wandering the wreckage and possibility of the space between the buildings and reverberating from the shock of you,...
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Apr 28, 20217 min read
Hibakujumoku, by Maxwell Suzuki
Hibakujumoku is a Japanese term for trees that have survived the blast of an atomic bomb. The same blast that vaporized men, women, and...
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