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Mar 19, 20226 min read
Evanescence -- fiction by Reese Beebe
I’m too young to be nostalgic. Too old to be completely still, unwilling to move. No one has ever said it to me, but I know. I know, as a...
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Jan 29, 20225 min read
Americanization -- fiction by Satori McCormick
Ina came with nothing but jeans, a T-shirt, and a diamond necklace. At least that was what she told us. My sister gasped and asked,...
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Dec 18, 20213 min read
Cloning -- fiction by Maya Wurtemberg
Katherine was a charming, sensitive, and polite young girl who woke up early for church every Sunday. She wore lightweight dresses which...
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Jul 2, 20214 min read
Nobody and the Other -- fiction by Patricia Jane Donato
The boy walked forward, shivering in a seemingly endless blackness. He thought he should have been somewhere else; somewhere warm and...
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May 28, 20214 min read
Numb -- fiction by Emily Sheng
“I’m sorry, but I don’t think our relationship is working. I’m breaking up with you.” Surprisingly, there were no tears shed. I should...
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May 14, 20214 min read
Kimjang -- fiction by Michelle Park
I. It was almost as if someone always whispered into my ear - it’s kimjang time! I’d always known by instinct, when the smell of the...
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May 14, 20214 min read
A New Home -- fiction by Ace Yeom
James was lying on the back seat of the car with his feet outstretched. He looked at his mother through the rearview mirror to see if she...
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May 14, 20214 min read
Burn -- fiction by Julie Zhu
The monitor beeped monotonously as I reach for the needle, the green zig-zagged line displaying my heartbeat slowed to a stop as I tug on...
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Apr 23, 20217 min read
The Cigarette Man -- fiction by Madeleine de Belloy de Saint Lienard
It certainly wasn’t love at first sight. The old rickety house barely stood up on its own and it creaked in the wind. Its splintered...
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Apr 23, 20216 min read
Can’t You Remember? -- fiction by Ali Fishman
I sometimes wonder what was disappeared first - among all the things that have vanished from the earth. My grandfather slammed the door...
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Jan 29, 20214 min read
Dear Clara -- fiction by Annie Zhu
Dear Clara, Happy Birthday, Angel! I can’t believe you are already turning 10. It feels like just yesterday you were a baby. You used to...
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Jan 29, 20217 min read
Remember Who You Are -- fiction by Oyindoubra Akika
“She remembered who she was and the game changed. ~ “ Lalah Delia “I told you to come back home, Adanna. You’ll never be good enough...
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Jan 15, 20217 min read
Croaking Gifts -- fiction by Mariam Khan
"It's slimy," Isadora whined, voice higher than a broken reed. The toad, cupped tight between her palms, let out a croak as if to note:...
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Oct 16, 20204 min read
Temptation -- fiction by Jessica Wang
He was skeptical at first, not trusting the fragile feathers held together by bits of wax and metal. But he strapped them on anyway and...
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Oct 16, 20205 min read
One, Two, Three -- fiction by Flore Alexandre
A couple of days before we left to go skiing at your father’s chalet, you casually told me he thought I was shallow. As your giggle...
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Oct 16, 20208 min read
Frost -- fiction by Riley Tao
“I told her she did the right thing!” Lord Astrea Frost roared, “I told her that it was okay to cry, that it was normal to feel terrible,...
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Aug 7, 20205 min read
The Deliverer -- fiction by Shira Zur
It is during times like these – in your hot, beat-up red 2006 Subaru, whose air-conditioning has been broken for almost three weeks but...
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Aug 7, 20204 min read
The Mockingbirds -- fiction by Sena Chang
“Hey, Boo,” Scout timidly said, her words almost rendering me to tears. The voice I had expected to be unforgiving and terror-stricken...
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Aug 7, 20204 min read
And the Serpent Wilts -- fiction by Lily Jay
“Don’t say anything,” he said. I couldn't anyways. My throat had turned into a snake and was suffocating me. This was happening. This was...
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Jul 24, 20208 min read
Chasing Pirates -- fiction by Tula Singer
The baby yawned and Nora smiled. For one, two, three hours, she stared at the face that peeked out of the white bundle, forgetting the...
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