Marie Marquardt is the author behind the beautifully rendered Flight Season, a YA novel about college, love, and new beginnings. Her writing brings to life the chaos of adolescence and the sweet yet awkward nature of first love. Marquardt tackles the fluffy and serious aspects of young adult life, bringing teens an honest and lovable […]
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She lay on the grass and it was a wonder to see She wouldn’t move, not even when they called her She must have been staring at the bright blue sky, or at its thick falling tears, or at her troubled fellows But she let no one in She wouldn’t budge, might the Deluge come […]
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This story is one of the April Writing Challenge entries that was chosen to be a featured story. “What do you think you’re doing?” Sarah’s voice brought me back down to earth. I blinked, and looked at the mess I’d collected in front of me. Grass, sticky weeds, dandelions ripped from their roots. I […]
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Secrets— tiny eggs we harbor like illegal fugitives in the nests behind our rib cages. They hatch, rattle the bars, demand to come out, breathe in the scent of reality, bathe in it. But some baby birds need to learn to fly before they leave. Secrets need to learn how to live in a world […]
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