Warning: graphic content. This is a true story about the most traumatic thing that has happened in my life. Even though I have suffered the …
Being Mary by Shelby Padgett
The first year I was asked, I was in fifth grade. A good friend of mine had told me minutes earlier that she hoped to …
Nineteen Llamas and Counting by Elsa Eckenrode
I have always been the hoarder of the family. Picture a room with nametags from 2nd grade, a variety of pens and pencils, schoolwork that …
Chimichanga by Alexis Campbell
You might be able to guess from my glasses and general bookishness that I would be bad at socializing. You’d be right. Sometimes these first …
Four Feet Across by Alexis Campbell
“Do you think she can hear us?” There’s some snorting laughter behind me, but my back is to them. Somehow my brain was triggered awake …
R+C by Rose Bythrow
It started out like any other love story: with a fabricated sense of pure happiness. How can anything go wrong with the music of your …
Believe by Murray Dunlap
After the car wreck, the three month coma, and the brain injury with a wheelchair, I say this: To believe in most anything is an …
Unsung by Katherine Du
My cousin Yijiang wanted to be Christian and a Marine, the first hot pot my grandfather ever refused to swallow. “Your ancestors blinded themselves from …
The First About a Boy by Izzy Gappmayer
What first got my attention was the way he held himself. He was at ease in his own skin, the way I never was. He …