Brave by Moyurie Som

Life is easy for those who live with eyes closed, lips pursed, arms clasped to the chest, with the heart carefully caged within the prison of their bones– with brisk steps and quick glances, measured smiles and calculated giggles, fine sensibilities trickling off their bodies like unsolicited teardrops, Pages scribbled on, crumpled and tossed into bins, […]

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You by Leena Baloch

you shrink yourself you fear being melodramatic and so you adjust your vision so the world becomes monochromatic but that’s not what you want, is it? you are not flesh and bones created just to be given a gravestone you are a mind, body, and soul worth far more than your weight in gold I […]

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Magic Sky by Emily Kern

Yellow, red, blue, and green fill the sky above. The white ground below reflects the colors of the wind, turning the world into a life-sized rainbow. I am mesmerized by the colors around me. I am an average pebble on the floor of a fish tank watching the steady flow of water ripple among the […]

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I Am by Priya Rinkus

I am the girl who draws stories from thin air I ponder the line between fantasy and reality I hear the whisper of the air and the soft voices contorted between two realities I see the golden mist, nonexistent but in the eyes of youth I wish to emerge from the cold darkness of reality […]

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How Words and I Met

Whenever I think about how I discovered my passion for writing, I know it always comes down to the day that my parents gave me my first fairy tale book. I remember being so absorbed in reading the stories and wondering if I could write my own in the future. With this in mind, I started to write […]

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Ode to Passion

Passion. Such a simple word, yet so powerful and well-understood. Not only do your own passions define who you are, but they motivate you to strive toward great things. My passion is singing — in the car, in the shower, at school, in my room, in restaurants. One thing is clear: Singing is prominent in […]

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