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Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A child's poem transforms an empty mansion into a haunted space through accumulating details of abandonment and decay.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A young writer imagines a digital universe with corrupted code 719, where trees shake and reality glitches as everything falls apart.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A young poet reflects on the fleeting nature of days, the irreversibility of time, and the pull of home as evening approaches.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — A devil and angel switch moral roles after the angel bites the devil's ear, which transforms into a halo the devil swallows.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 9 — Saturn leaves the solar system sobbing, returns later transformed—gray, shriveled, solid ice where gas once swirled, orbiting differently.

Story·Alexa Chiang, age 11 — After her best friend moves to Switzerland, an eight-year-old girl struggles with loneliness at school and finds solace in their Skype conversations, though nothing feels the same.

Poetry·Tara Prakash, age 12 — Time's passage traced through family moments — a brother's kite, grandfather's lined face, babies' bright eyes — questioning permanence while accepting change's necessity.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 8 — A young poet reflects on the passage of time, the uniqueness of each day, and the mysterious nature of space in simple, contemplative lines.

Story·Ella Martinez Nocito, age 12 — A girl receives a cedar bracelet and a story about courage from her cousin before moving across the country, finding strength to face change.

Story·Alex Berman, age 13 — A whimsical origin story explains how the floating, two-eyed giiants of Chocolate Lemon island became the one-eyed cyclopes we know today.