Today may or may not be my birthday, and I may or may not be turning sixteen. I know, I know — the big one-six, the sweet sixteen, the age that your favorite storybook heroine is, the age everyone wants to be or go back to being, right? That was certainly what I thought when […]
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Let’s skip the pleasantries and obligated polite remarks. I want to know you. I want you to tell me the things that you are afraid of, the things that you are angry about, the things that you think of when you take too long to exhale the smoke of your cigarette. Tell me. Curses don’t […]
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The idea of writing a poem on the inside of an envelope — instead of a notebook — seems romantic after binging on fiction and your mind is a thousand miles off land and down with the titanic. Old movies share that same effect, that air of tension and magic in the air that can […]
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Her blood is saturated with sunbeams and her bones brittle thin and from her skin arises the musky scent of paper and smoky vanilla fire. There’s a bottle of ink spilled over her fingers and twenty- six letters carved into her skull. They rearrange, remix themselves into a different world, a different time, a different […]
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For those who perished and for those who were able to survive. Always keep the 6 million lost souls alive in your hearts and memories. Ashley Myers is from Lawrence, New York. She is a writer and the chief art editor for her high school newspaper. She really […]
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November means sputtering rain that has no energy left for desperation, myths woven into cartilage sidewalks like hemp. A rush of street veins, the trains spitting up soggy girls, stale microwaved coffee ebbing away at your tongue as the guitar twangs of an indie rock band fills afternoon silence with salt, something that loses its […]
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Up-and-coming YA author Becky Albertalli tried her hand at writing a novel, and she subsequently created an immensely touching, witty story that’s about to hit bookstores tomorrow! That’s right, her debut novel, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, comes out tomorrow, April 7th! For those of you who are not yet familiar with Becky Albertalli, I highly suggest […]
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Do you see her? Her beauty radiates off of her It breaks through every window It shines like the brightest star She is vibrant and bold She is beautiful Do you feel her? She is as smooth as silk Fragile and gentle Soft and vulnerable Silent yet staggering She is beautiful Do you catch her […]
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When you chose Manic Panic Raven, a shade so dark you couldn’t find it at the bottom of your purse after you stole it from CVS, you convinced yourself that girls who paint their mouths the color of pavement often get them broken on it. And you believed it, left the tube unopened, only wore […]
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