Junior / Features
To The Sea
Armal, Asturias, Spain, 1898 There was no wedding. If I could’ve done anything differently, there would’ve been a wedding. A wedding with a gown, many guests, dancing, food and music. All my friends were as disappointed as I was. They’d been planning my wedding since before I had turned ten. The same with me for [...]
By Lena Greenberg / Age 14
Junior / Features
The Shoe Thief
Once there was a little red fox. She had clear green eyes and pointy brown ears. She had very good taste, but she had no fears! Every day, she took five minutes to lick her pretty brown coat, five minutes to brush her pointy white teeth, and five minutes to groom her well-padded paws. However, [...]
By Sarah Gianakon / Age 15
Junior / Features
The Blood Orange
Ughhh! Why do all of the other oranges pick on me for being a ruby red blood orange?! I even get death threats from the Giant Boy now! He threatens to eat me. And since summer has begun, the attacks from the Flies have been worse since the Giant Hand has forsaken us! It never [...]
By Sharon Zea-Rineon / 7th Grade
Junior / Poetry
Brave Soul, ii
In this lugubrious land
By Sojourner Ahebee
Junior / Poetry
Prose Poem
As I stand here, ready to take on the world in a fight that will seem to last an eternity, thoughts of doubt, intimidation, and sorrow swirl around my mind sucking away any confidence I have left. And more and more as my confidence fades it leaves nothing more than these thoughts that tear away [...]
By John Thomas
Junior / Poetry
Day and Night
When it is day, it is blue
By Elle Julius
Junior / Poetry
Insights of a Dying Man
If a knife is stabbing me in my chest
By Eliah Patterson
Junior / Poetry
Time
I am time.
By Jonathan Payne
Junior / Poetry
Monologue
“You should’ve stepped away
By Lily Alexandra Mell
Junior / Poetry
The Yellow
Oh, look at the yellow in the birch trees!
By Marianna Bergues
Junior / Poetry
The Night Sky
If when the sun is moving
By Mia Carter
Junior / Poetry
Humming
If I, when my technological conveniences are off
By Isa Long
Junior / Poetry
The Light
The light, the light, it’s calling my name
By Elle Julius
Junior / Poetry
Flash fiction
I’ll vote for you!
By Marianna Bergues
Junior / Poetry
Stages
In the beginning
By Martine Fortune
Junior / Poetry
Untitled
Smith’s Watches and Fine Jewelry sat deserted on Cherry St.
By Pearl Ramke
Junior / Poetry
Where I’m Really From
I am from Albania, where large land lies between houses.
By Anxhela Zere
Junior / Poetry
Taxes
I am a cowering cat
By Victor Ginsberg
Junior / Poetry
Muscles, a Fish
there’s always a wrinkle in water
By Erez Fischman-Cohen