Pink and blue. Electric blue, like your running shoes. I say your feet are smaller than mine and you smile. It is tinsel. Daisies. You blush every time. You are long, strong, and blond. Blue eyed. The world sees how beautiful you are. And I know you are unstoppable. I hear it in the voice […]
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so this is how life passes at fifteen: we wake up to the violent moon, breaking window panes and shredding plastic blinds. our bodies are sandbags holding back the Mississippi, stripping off clothes that wrap like peeling wallpaper around our skin, pounding beaten sneakers on icy sidewalks that reflect the sky. our days are clockwork— […]
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These days feel as if they are always. Since that year, I feel I have seen everything As if through the diligent eyes of God, Dilated with diabolical dissent, Callous in the knowing that Half my friends are criminals, And the rest are vapid souls, Mellow, dramatic, decaffeinated or high, Anarchist academics, Dreaming of new colours, new […]
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What were you doing when you were nine? Probably not challenging decades of scholastic standardized testing policies. Sidney Smoot, a fourth grader from Brooksville, Florida, is not your average nine-year-old. Smoot recently got up in front of an assembly of adults at a local school board meeting to neatly and eloquently dismantle the ridiculous flaws with standardized testing. […]
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I lived that life on the other end of your father’s cigarette it was too many years and too many steps along the lines of the manicured grass who knew every fog could blacken my body with the lines of a train track ? will we ever forget the feeling of being seventeen going onto […]
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Would you like to live hundreds of years longer than you do now? And not as a forever-decrepit individual but as a healthy, youthful one who does things and continues to learn and explore and, yes, possibly even flies a starship to another planet 100 light years away? Well, believe it or not, this isn’t […]
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Q: Sometimes it doesn’t feel like you remember what it was like to be a teenager. Is it really that different now? Mom: Wow, I think sometimes we’re so busy trying to protect you that we do forget what it felt like to be your age. But mostly we remember! In some ways everything is different […]
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Sisters are doing it for themselves! WriteGirl is a Los Angeles based program for young female writers founded by all-around creative Keren Taylor. Founded in 2001, the program features experienced and accomplished female writers giving guidance to young women in a variety of genres, including fiction, poetry, play and screen writing, and journalism. According to […]
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