Junior / Poetry
unger is relentless. Hunger keeps you going while pulling you back. Eating away at you soul, your nerves, your bones. Hunger is that box always waiting at your door step. Making you remember. Making you always hungry for food, for money, for love. Until the day when there is no more hunger. No more food [...]
Junior / Poetry
9/11 deeply nestled within the dull concrete debris lie the bones of those who could not say goodbye # fear fear is assuming that the unfamiliar is dark and evil # hope living on nothing but promises and a dream that things will work out Graham Laughlin is 16 and lives in Riverton, [...]
Junior / Poetry
CHAPBOOK: My Poetic Voice by Mighty Writers
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Junior / Poetry
A Man’s World (Inspired by Alice Walker’s “Women”)
Be soft And supple Hairless like a child Pluck your brows Dye your hair But don’t be so vain Stand up for yourself But know your place Be wife material But don’t be so needy and dependent Be strong And confident But rely on my compliments for self esteem Don’t starve yourself To look like a stick [...]
Junior / Stories
In my elementary school, pets were a big thing. Class pets like rabbits or chickens were owned by a few lucky classrooms, and pets like goldfish and frogs were owned by the less fortunate. Our classroom ended up with guinea pigs. At first, I was excited. Who could turn down furry, pig-like, hamsterish-mouse things? But [...]
Junior / Stories
Once upon a time there lived, a queen and a king. They had two children named Alec and Molly. Alec was a newborn and Molly was 5 years old. One day, a witch came to their palace. She put a spell on Molly’s mom and dad, and turned them into one-dot mushrooms. You see, the [...]
Junior / Stories
One simple game. Just a silly computer game. Harmless. No, it actually isn’t. Ever since people have started to download the game, it’s gone all wrong. It’s because everyone’s missing. About three years ago is when it started. Moji Enterprises had released their newest game. Moji is popular for the addictive games you really can’t [...]
Junior / Stories
“Grandmother, what is this painting supposed to be about? It’s so, um, grey,” Anna says to me. She is pointing to a bleak grey painting of a broken down shack with a tin bucket on the doorstep I had made many years ago. “Oh, Anna, it is such a long story, I am not sure [...]
Junior / Stories
While the wind whistled through the trees, Jaya and her best friend, Austin, lay in her backyard. Beep, beep, beep went the door as Jaya’s mom, Mrs. Nallark, entered the house, so both kids got up and ran into the house. “Mom, did I get any mail today?” Jaya asked. She had been waiting for [...]
Junior / Stories
Bradley walked into his hotel room at precisely 11 a.m. and started his search. He peered into the wooden closet that smelled of fresh paint and found no forgotten items. The drawer to the modern desk made a scraping sound when he pulled it open. In the desk, there was a box of matches with [...]