The crown sits lazily on my head. Olympia stares at me from across the room. “You’re beautiful when you’re planning world domination,” he says, and I watch as his eyes look me up and down. He focuses on the blood I forgot to wipe off of my cheek. “We’re one step closer, my love,” I […]
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I stepped off the plane and was met with a familiar smell – the smell of home. Deciding to go home for summer was hard – and it was even harder to bring my girlfriend with me. We had been going out since early February, and I was happier than ever. And yet, I was […]
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“Don’t leave.” I desperately offer this failure of a soliloquy. My hands trace circles in the sand. Out here it’s just me, the sand, the ocean that seems to be singing a melancholy song– and him. “I don’t want to,” he tells me and grabs my hand. He stares into my soul and then he […]
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On my last day in Mumbai, I wanted to stay with my friends (well, my crush too). It was the perfect summer day and I went swimming. The first person I saw– Andrew. We made eye contact for a minute. Big thing! Throughout the hour, we shared multiple moments. Later that evening, I bid my friends adieu, and […]
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Lying underneath the blooming oak tree, April ponders her life. Book in hand and Oasis in her earbuds, she can’t help but wonder if she’s doing something wrong. Why am I not excited to be a senior this year? Why am I not experiencing all of the things you hear about in those corny rom-coms, […]
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Callie felt her eyelids slowly close, heavy from a dreary sleep. She envisioned an island with tall, long trees and lakes running deep as the sky. She heard a ruffling of the leaves. She wanted to inspect the noise but her body froze with fear. What if it was a trap? Would she die? She […]
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The mingled heat of summer and adrenaline trickles down my spine as you step in closer. I beg my fight or flight response to knock some sense into me before your outstretched hand reaches my cheek; pray for the strength to escape the deadly moment that I know – we both know – will erupt […]
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From Juneteenth.com: Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas origin in 1865, the observance of June 19th as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Today Juneteenth commemorates African American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. […]
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Tricia is sixteen, from Goa, India. She wrote this story as a tribute to loved ones she has lost due to the pandemic. She pries on us all, and strikes while unnoticed. I do not know her, yet I loathe her. She steals from me what I love most– my family, my friends. Now I’m […]
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