Drew Daywalt is the talented author of the amazing children’s book The Day the Crayons Quit, a New York Times bestseller that can keep both children and adults …
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It ends here, in a parking lot with neon streetlights painting our skin, and her hands twisted in my jacket, and her breath ragged as …
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Mom hands me a wrapped package and unsuccessfully tries to suppress a smile. String lights on the Christmas tree in the living room flash red, …
Dead Doll by Erin York
Dead Doll Excerpt: Chapters 1 and 2 Chapter One Arms outstretched, I grope along the wet wall of the tunnel. The footfalls behind me draw …
Part 4: LA by Jerri Sparks
The 4th installment in Mrs.Johnson’s Home for Broken Boys. The morning after Randy Brown and I broke up, I drove to my parents’ home in …
Nothing to Write About by Carol McGill
Clara lay on top of her duvet, head thrown back, gazing at the ceiling as her guitar rested on her tummy. Her toes, raised on …
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Katherine Mansfield once said, “Looking back, I was always writing. Twaddle it was, too. But far better to write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing …
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It was a long winter, and I spent endless days and nights staring at that blank page with nothing to say. I was a songwriter …
Meet Ola Orekunrin: The Flying Doctor
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