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Someday I'll Get It -- creative nonfiction by Kat Scadley
May 22 2016 Before I turned 6, I used to think about dying. Not seriously of course. Only in the way that if I died before I turned 6,...
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- Jun 28
- 3 min
Turning into an Orange -- creative nonfiction by Anna Callender
The lunch line is barely moving. Freshmen who know it isn’t their lunch period yet shoulder past seniors who roll their eyes, already...
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- Jun 28
- 1 min
Uncomfortable -- creative nonfiction by Mishika Joisher
The noon summer sun glares through the bus window, and tints the world a garish yellow. The lead-like sunlight is ladening, layer over...
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- Apr 27
- 1 min
Thin Skin -- creative nonfiction by Alyssa Huang
Crunch. Textured rocks smash across the earth’s pavement. My classmates enthusiastically create “skin colored paints” from cream-colored...
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- Apr 27
- 5 min
My Shy Therapist -- creative nonfiction by Cooper Karpf
I had been going to my therapist every-other-week for about two months, and I could probably count the total words he said on two hands....
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- Apr 27
- 10 min
Performance Happiness -- creative nonfiction by Grace Jiang
There is foundation caked in the grooves of my face. The sweat soaks into the crumbling, dried liquid, but it doesn’t ease the...
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- Feb 6
- 8 min
Drivers Ed Test 1 -- Creative nonfiction by Isabel Chaplain
Drivers Ed Test 1 Name: Isabel E. Chaplain Grade: 10 Worksheet #: 1 Driver Ed score of 80% or better to pass classroom instruction....
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- Feb 6
- 4 min
The Spice Box -- creative nonfiction by Nirjara Akkole
[A p p r e c i a t i o n] The metal dabba reclines at the edge of the shelf, daring to tip over the periphery just as my mother clasps...
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- Feb 6
- 6 min
Haptic -- creative nonfiction by Eian Tsou
On the cusp of winter 2021, by a bench that overlooks the city, I happened upon a moss-covered log that glistened green under the...
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- Dec 6, 2023
- 6 min
Dear Queer -- creative nonfiction by Noah Elbaum
Dear Trailblazer, Middle school is behind you, the whole sky in front. This week you saw the total solar eclipse. Paper eclipse glasses...
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- Dec 6, 2023
- 6 min
From One Language to Another -- creative nonfiction by Taya Kim
Lan•guage (lan’gwij) n. 1. A form of communication conveyed by speech, writing, and gesture. Language was just this: another word out of...
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- Nov 1, 2023
- 7 min
The Slaughterhouse: a true story -- creative nonfiction by G. F. Fuller
I wait behind an obese security guard who the lady at the register knows as a regular. He orders his ground beef, and I tell the lady why...
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- Nov 1, 2023
- 3 min
Letter to A Girl -- creative nonfiction by Victoria Castillo
I can see the girl I knew unfurl out of your body like the smoke of the cigarettes you used to burn, tendrils of ash and dust left to...
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- Nov 1, 2023
- 6 min
Select Memories of Aichmophilia -- creative nonfiction by Naomi Carr
Last summer, I met a boy who wrote a poem about painting a mural with his blood. A crimson first impression flowed off the page like...
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 4 min
Mantou from the Moon -- creative nonfiction by Rosie Hong
In Chinese legends, mantou resembled a barbarian’s head thrown into the violent waters of the Lushui. They were buns shaped like human...
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 8 min
In Lolo's Wake -- creative nonfiction by Jeffrey Kunzweiler
The first burial I ever went to was that of my lolo. It was January, but it was still relatively warm, the way it had been all winter....
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 4 min
Conversations with Otto -- creative nonfiction by Anita Pan
In the early morning, when the sun is beginning to fringe the edges of the sky heading to school and wasting six hours within the...
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 3 min
Rot -- creative nonfiction by Amelie Hoduc
Memory is a funny thing. Sometimes you have the ability to forget the big picture, the simple actions, white-out the faces, take away...
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 5 min
the price of fruit -- creative nonfiction by Lily Lee
The kitchen hasn’t been renovated yet. A row of happy-face stickers is plastered across the cabinet, some of them drooping, some of them...
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- Jun 17, 2023
- 4 min
Why I Avoid Mirrors -- creative nonfiction by Tristan Chessler
I have never had a good grip on socializing. That is not to say that I do not enjoy being around people, I do, it simply terrifies me. I...
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