war

Memoir· — It was a bright morning. I was lying in bed in a room built of uncooked bricks. Nothing but a plastic sheet for protection. My mother, my little brother and...

Blog Post· — All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr is a historical fiction novel centered around two teenagers during World War II in Europe. It details the journeys of Marie-Laure...

Blog Post· — You’re running in a dark forest, the full moon’s light illuminating spots of the ground through the trees. Fallen leaves crinkle under your feet as you sprint mindlessly. You’re just...

Blog Post· — Like all other beaches, Omaha Beach had sand, rocks, and water. But this beach was different. This one had a history. Last summer I went to Paris, France for a...

Art·Basil Haswa — Artist Bio: I am Basel, an 11-year-old child who has been displaced within Syria 5 times and then to Lebanon. I am very attached to studies, but I am facing...

Blog Post· — Projekt 1065: A Novel of World War II, by Alan Gratz, is a historical fiction novel set in Nazi Germany, 1943. Michael O’Shaunessey, a 13-year-old-boy, is an Irish and German...

Stories·Emma Hoff — The Price of Free Will People are foolish. While fighting, those great grey things climbed onto our heads and begged for air. Eyed from above, clouds were meaningless, wings that...

Art· — 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)....

Art· — 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...

Art· — The boy’s father was shot, and the red spots rare his blood against the wall and window of the house. Drawing by a 10 year old Syrian boy. Topic for...