Stories
— Life Gone Awry (William’s class; September 11, 2021) By Peri Gordon, 11 “Is it just me, or does it seem like aliens invaded our planet and convinced everyone to add...
— Free As a Bird Feathers flap, determined. Wings glide, graceful. “You can't be a bird If you don’t fly,” they say. You can’t be a bird if you don’t try....
— My Encounter with Nelson Mandela Olivia Shekou, 12 Just last week, I flew to New York to visit my aunt, a lawyer for the United Nations who speaks three official...
— A Vacation, an Idiom, and a Wedding Joyce Hong, 11 Todd slowly exhaled and pressed the button on the radio. Maybe there would be some song or some old...
— There is potential to be interesting in her she could be a writer or a botanist or a carpenter, ski coach, firefighter, engineer, world saver she could be famous or...
— The Gift By Aditi Nair, 13 Midlothian, VA A clattering drip-drop of rain frightened even theslightest bit of light. The wind whispered through the crowd, enveloping each individual in fear....
— The Candle Candle, candle, glimmering bright, like crimson leaves, a shining light, colors illuminating autumn’s night. Wax as white as winter snow drips like raindrops from the sky down the...
— I pushed the charred curtain out of the way as I stepped outside. The ground was blackened with the ash of everything that was destroyed. Bones littered the ground. Smoke...
— Fear of Drowning I was flying. It felt like I was floating on the water,but this time without sinking in, without coming up coughing and spitting. I didn’t know howto...
— The horse The horse sped through the halcyon forest heading to a calamitously clandestine destination derived from betrayal, hidden from the hatred of all. Some called the horse heroic –...