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Tenshi

Masked Emotions

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After a long day, I open up my bedroom door, close it, and lock it. I tamper with my

Alex

Truth or Death

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He pushes me up against the wall, his arm across my throat, making it hard to breathe

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By The Fire

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Life is like a sharp stick, Meant for great things, Like marshmallows, And pointing a

Ruth Benning

Solstice

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An Alchemist Worth Her Salt

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“This is everything my alchemy research has surmounted to, I can’t pass up this oppor

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An Endless Journey

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Our legs had all but given out long ago. Our bodies ached, our lips begged for even a

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Not A House But A Home

Jordan Thorne

1 min read

How is it you feel alone when everyone is there

How is it you feel looked over even when they stare.

They judge you in your own house

Make you feel like your a mouse

Just a pest who lives there never really more.

You really wish you could just show them the door.

But can’t cause there family related by blood

Even though they hurt you and drug you through the mud.

This house is your home but on...

Poetry

YA fiction

Costumes (Soulmate Story)

Jewelie Rain

6 min read

(Just some fluff about Halloween costumes)

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“What are you going as for Halloween?” Jeremiah asks.

Everyone is lounging about in his casa. It seems to be a meeting place since his mamá loves them all like they are her own.

He knows how lucky he is. Having seen Roman’s home life and Bell’s complicated family, he has come to recognize the beauty in the peace. Mamá is the best.

Even though he...

Fantasy

YA fiction

1 min read

My Cup Runneth Over

I Went To School In Olympia

Chapter 7

Olympia, Washington, 1981:

I stared at the chalky blackboard, my gaze externally vacant. But, inside my mind, dewy yellow spirals traced along the edges of the blindly green-black board that was smeared with soft white clouds of poorly-washed off chalk. White eyelashes slashed my vision like icicles as my head bobbed slowly, blackened apparatus-like bodies in A-line skirts and ironed kakhis and b...

Drama

YA fiction

The Great Unknown

Crown Of Seventy Thorns

2 min read

This poem is inspired by lyrics from the song “The Great Unknown” by Ice Nine Kills.

Can you see

What I see?

The future is scary,

You’re connected to

Catastrophe,

Just like…

Just like me.

Do you know

What I know?

The world moves fast,

Yet all the more slow,

Maybe underneath the fun,

Could you be the one

To save it all?

Could you be the one…

To take the drug,

To pull the plug,

To recl...

Poetry

YA fiction

Secrets And Lies

Jordan Thorne

1 min read

Not all who wander

are lost, not all who are lost

want to be found. I

Find that those who are

Alone aren’t always lonely.

People who smile are

Sad. People who talk

Too much never talk at home,

Because no one cares.

Those who are strong cry

Alone. Those who are always there

For others have no

One there for them. I

Don’t know, why or how or who

But everyone hides,

Even you...

Poetry

YA fiction

Locker Flowers

kate_marie79

1 min read

“I heard from a little birdie that someone’s asking you out!” Emily sang in that high-pitched tone she got when she was excited.

I knew it was Sam. The shared videos, the late night conversations, the random questions—they’d all been leading up to the big question I’d been waiting for.

“I know, I’m so nervous!” I sucked air through my teeth as I opened my locker. The immediate scent of...

Romance

YA fiction

One season.

mal

2 min read

The deaths of one season is the rebirth of the next

There’s something cruel and holy about the way life ends to begin again.

How everything has to die just a little — or sometimes all at once — before it has permission to bloom.

And I’m learning that healing is seasonal too. That sometimes, the only way to grow is to first grieve what no longer fits.

I used to beg for peace, pray for a life tha...

Drama

YA fiction

Destiny

Zuzia

1 min read

‘Quod destinatum est, inveniet viam.’

What is destined will find its way.

He was charming, precious—like a ruby in the glow of a sunset.

Green eyes.

Dark hair.

A smile made in heaven.

His cheeks pink like two sweet plums up on a tree, voice like a soft hum of a gentle wind hushing through dandelions.

While he, he was a fireball.

Blue eyes.

Broad shoulders.

Light hair.

Dimples.

Dange...

Romance

YA fiction

The Dead Musicians’ Support Group

2 min read

“What’re you in for?” A short, slightly older Black woman asked me, although I knew she knew why: my reason was the same as her’s.

“I gave up,” I replied, sitting down on one of the cracked blue plastic chairs. It gave an awkwardly loud creak as I sat down.

“Same,” said the Black woman, and she sat down beside me. “My name’s Mary Kate.”

“I’m Angel.” I smiled, but it quickly turned back into a f...

YA fiction

Star Hands

1 min read

I stared at the clock for a long moment. It read 12:43 p.m., and I still had two more classes before I could finally go home. I grumbled to myself, and turned my eyes to face the whiteboard again- although there was nothing on it that was important, only a list of different types of fishes.

Mr. Wes spoke droning on, from the other end of the room, about the different types of fishes, and how Haid...

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