Stories

Story·Jack Meyer, age 13 — Two next-door-neighbor boys share mint chocolate chip ice cream and play video games on a windy spring afternoon, their friendship revealed through accumulated details.

Story·Georgia Melnick, age 12 — Ten-year-old Tallulah struggles with leaving her small yellow house until she learns her aunt is moving into their old home, making the new place feel familiar.

Story·Iris Chen, age 10 — A girl plants magical colorful flowers in her gray town that's been mourning a hurricane, transforming it from grief to hope despite the mayor's opposition.

Stories·Pranjoli Sadhukha — The Unremarkable Mr. Nicholas Smith Nicholas always had an uncanny ability to stand out in a crowd. It wasn’t just how his name always seemed to be reversed. The electric...

Stories·Sage Millen — At first glance, she seemed like a pack of highlighters had coloured her body. A strange, vividly eccentric girl, she stood in the center of the crowd, and yet seemed...

Stories·Josh Elman — Few were (and still are) able to imagine the wild figure of Fox Girl. But if  you saw her, you’d recognize her even if you’d never heard of such a...

Stories·Lina Kim — The crunch of the leaves under Angie’s boots chilled her to the bone. She was running, running in the forest. Why? Why was she running? She couldn’t remember. She couldn’t...

Stories·Rachael Lippe — Ginger and the Beast by Rachael Lippe Ginger sat on her toadstool and thumped her heels against the stem. Thump, thump, thump, thump, and then some more thumping. Ginger allowed...

Stories·Lindsay Gale — The cassie implewart crawled out of her nest. Her long bubber colored fur fell into her eyes as she leapt from tree to tree in a snookaloo manner. Finally, she...

Stories·Susana Martinez-Conde — Wrika intelelo Boombalis rikathes talesthe Inglais Transthon The People of Bumblelore Written in Bumblish with the English Translation Boombalis (Bumblish) Tiffy Lano sayte, “Iyekos seyelo! Nafe mapo talaling serali! Belalee...