Avery is sixteen years old and from the United States. Her entry for the May Writing Challenge was one of those chosen to be a featured story. Our fists connected, bruises blossomed, spreading across our chins. Brother and I, outside the garage of our summer home, grabbling each other, rolling around in the dirt, yelling. […]
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Being an only child, the complicated and passionate nature of sisterhood has always intrigued me, and it’s a theme I explore in my debut YA fantasy, Sweet Black Waves. Although the novel is a retelling of the star-crossed legend of Tristan and Iseult, my protagonist is Branwen: best friend and cousin to the princess. In […]
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Calling all siblings, young and small, old and tall, here’s the truth about your little sister or brother. They might annoy you and have you convinced that they are created for the sole purpose of testing your temper and patience, but there is a definite method behind their madness. We must simply look closely to […]
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While many of us might view this as an inside joke designed to tease our middle sibling, the Middle Child Syndrome does exist. I was surprised myself when several years ago I first came across that term. Before the discovery, I assumed that it only had to do with a person’s behavior. However, upon closer observation, […]
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As you come into your twenties, you make the transition from being a teenager to a young adult, and it comes with pressures and changes that you never expect. Sometimes it’s a little overwhelming…but I believe that in the end, you just gotta take life as it comes — despite society’s expectations. So to help, […]
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In one of my optimistic fantasies in which I finally am in a position to have kids, I and my partner have eight children between us and having long exhausted my childhood bible of names – Robin and Martha and Noelle and Rachel – and presumably hers too, we look down at our littlest – […]
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Her nails were white, her clothing black. Her heart resembled much of the both of them. Void of life and full with hatred. “I hate it,” she said. “I hate everything.” “You don’t hate everything,” I told her. “You hate things right now.” “When does right now turn into forever, though?” “It doesn’t,” I smiled. […]
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He’d spill a novel about how the only time I told him his art was beautiful was when the whites of my eyes were on fire. His wall would be polluted with Pulitzers for every article he’d hurl where I was hungover in the hallway. He’d burn his memoir so he wouldn’t remember how his […]
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Siblings Julianne Hough and Derek Hough are both professional dancers. They have both participated in the show Dancing with the Stars, and Julianne has since gone on to make movies and pursue music. A few months ago, they once again danced together on Dancing with the Stars, showcasing their talents and tugging on our heart strings as they […]
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