The M31: Borrowed Bus Stories

by Charlotte Merrick

Published January 14, 2016

Every day, you wake up, eat breakfast, and walk down the five flights of steep, stone-cold stairs. As a cheery...
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A Night of Fire

by Jordan Dunaway-Barlow

Published January 14, 2016

A gloomy hole sheltered the shivering cardinal during a raging thunderstorm. The hole was an incomplete snake house, burrowed with...
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Navy-Blue Cloth— Words and Pain

by Kathryn Malnight

Published January 14, 2016

“He was mostly your dog.” The words flew in flurries around my head. I shall never forget them. “He was...
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The Highest Football

by Jaylen Wang

Published January 14, 2016

It’s funny, sometimes some things that are supposed to make perfect sense are actually totally the opposite from the truth....
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Reject

by Ella Staats

Published January 14, 2016

Reject. That’s what I was. My parents claimed that eight children in the house was too much for them to...
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The Chesapeake Bay Manatee

by Brooke Antoine

Published January 14, 2016

Adriane slowly opened her bedroom door, glancing down the hallway to make sure no one was awake. Once she was...
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A Different Kind of Friend

by Lydia Solodiuk

Published January 13, 2016

Emma Simmons was as angry as a deranged bull. Her mother was going to make her go to church every...
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Window into the Wild

by Claire Hekkala

Published January 13, 2016

Brandon bounced the tennis ball up and down on the dirt ground. The short, dark-haired boy was nine Earth years...
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Homecoming

by Haley Chee

Published January 13, 2016

I had marveled at her beauty a dozen times before, but this was different. This time was special. She was...
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Logs

by Naima Okami

Published January 13, 2016

The morning the oak tree was cut down was dismal and wet, clouds drooping under the defeated sky. My breath...
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