Loss & Grief
— An update from our forty-sixth Writing Workshop with Conner Bassett A summary of the workshop held on Saturday, October 22, plus some of the output published below This week Emma...
— Alyssa Sheinmel’s novel Faceless does a remarkable job of portraying the psychological problems involved in the aftermath of a traumatic accident. The protagonist, high school senior Maisie Winters, is out...
— All We Can Do Is Wait by Richard Lawson is an incredibly moving story about life, death, and the gray area in between. It is set in Boston, Massachusetts, with...
— Positive Sarayu B, 11 I got the news sometime in January. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for my grandmother to get better. She had tested positive for COVID-19 earlier, and...
— The tree stands, its branches gnarled and twisted and folding in upon themselves. It has long since shed a bright tapestry of greens and oranges and yellows, ever-changing with the...
— An update from our forty-seventh Writing Workshop A summary of the workshop held on Saturday September 18, plus some of the output published below At this writing workshop, we looked...
— Defined By Suffering (William’s class; September 18, 2021) By Peri Gordon, 11 What to do with such terrible eyes? They were wide, wet, bloodshot things that stood out even in...
— In the summer of 2017, a horrific earthquake hit the Greek island of Lesvos. In the summer of 2017, my family’s village, Vrisia, was reduced to a terrifying pile of...
— A mother comes into her house to find her son dead in the bed, riddled with bullets. The other child is crying. “Razan” is the artist’s name (at the top)....
— The girl who drew this witnessed the scene. There is a burning hospital in the upper-right. A mother is crying for her son in the lower left. The child in...