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Feb 94 min read
Barbie The Mormon -- creative nonfiction by Beth Burnett
Like a bird crashing into a window, the question “Are you Mormon?” came out of nowhere. There were three more weeks left of working as a...
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Feb 98 min read
The Relentless Grasp of a Hungry Parasite -- creative nonfiction by Saira Bhagat
It’s an invisible disease. Similar to a parasite, once it makes its way into your mind, it grows at the expense of its host. It takes...
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Dec 27, 20246 min read
Alex Yann: Respect -- Creative Nonfiction by Kassidy Marks
The summer before my ninth grade year, I spent a month at the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, also known as CTY. When I arrived,...
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Oct 31, 20241 min read
Freshman Year -- creative nonfiction by Isabella Burns
“I thought we were friends?” she asked, sounding more like an accusation. We were inseparable friends. It was suffocating, her jealousy...
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Jun 28, 20247 min read
Someday I'll Get It -- creative nonfiction by Kat Scadley
May 22 2016 Before I turned 6, I used to think about dying. Not seriously of course. Only in the way that if I died before I turned 6,...
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Jun 28, 20243 min read
Turning into an Orange -- creative nonfiction by Anna Callender
The lunch line is barely moving. Freshmen who know it isn’t their lunch period yet shoulder past seniors who roll their eyes, already...
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Jun 28, 20241 min read
Uncomfortable -- creative nonfiction by Mishika Joisher
The noon summer sun glares through the bus window, and tints the world a garish yellow. The lead-like sunlight is ladening, layer over...
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Apr 27, 20241 min read
Thin Skin -- creative nonfiction by Alyssa Huang
Crunch. Textured rocks smash across the earth’s pavement. My classmates enthusiastically create “skin colored paints” from cream-colored...
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Apr 27, 20245 min read
My Shy Therapist -- creative nonfiction by Cooper Karpf
I had been going to my therapist every-other-week for about two months, and I could probably count the total words he said on two hands....
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Apr 27, 202410 min read
Performance Happiness -- creative nonfiction by Grace Jiang
There is foundation caked in the grooves of my face. The sweat soaks into the crumbling, dried liquid, but it doesn’t ease the...
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Feb 6, 20248 min read
Drivers Ed Test 1 -- Creative nonfiction by Isabel Chaplain
Drivers Ed Test 1 Name: Isabel E. Chaplain Grade: 10 Worksheet #: 1 Driver Ed score of 80% or better to pass classroom instruction....
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Feb 6, 20244 min read
The Spice Box -- creative nonfiction by Nirjara Akkole
[A p p r e c i a t i o n] The metal dabba reclines at the edge of the shelf, daring to tip over the periphery just as my mother clasps...
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Dec 6, 20236 min read
Dear Queer -- creative nonfiction by Noah Elbaum
Dear Trailblazer, Middle school is behind you, the whole sky in front. This week you saw the total solar eclipse. Paper eclipse glasses...
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Dec 6, 20236 min read
From One Language to Another -- creative nonfiction by Taya Kim
Lan•guage (lan’gwij) n. 1. A form of communication conveyed by speech, writing, and gesture. Language was just this: another word out of...
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Nov 1, 20237 min read
The Slaughterhouse: a true story -- creative nonfiction by G. F. Fuller
I wait behind an obese security guard who the lady at the register knows as a regular. He orders his ground beef, and I tell the lady why...
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Nov 1, 20233 min read
Letter to A Girl -- creative nonfiction by Victoria Castillo
I can see the girl I knew unfurl out of your body like the smoke of the cigarettes you used to burn, tendrils of ash and dust left to...
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Nov 1, 20236 min read
Select Memories of Aichmophilia -- creative nonfiction by Naomi Carr
Last summer, I met a boy who wrote a poem about painting a mural with his blood. A crimson first impression flowed off the page like...
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Jun 17, 20234 min read
Mantou from the Moon -- creative nonfiction by Rosie Hong
In Chinese legends, mantou resembled a barbarian’s head thrown into the violent waters of the Lushui. They were buns shaped like human...
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Jun 17, 20238 min read
In Lolo's Wake -- creative nonfiction by Jeffrey Kunzweiler
The first burial I ever went to was that of my lolo. It was January, but it was still relatively warm, the way it had been all winter....
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Jun 17, 20234 min read
Conversations with Otto -- creative nonfiction by Anita Pan
In the early morning, when the sun is beginning to fringe the edges of the sky heading to school and wasting six hours within the...
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