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I don’t want to get caught up in details, but details make me, me It’s an interesting thing when you…
It was lunchtime for us first graders, and I vividly remember everyone staring at me because I had said something…
The train slipped through the silent, snowy landscape. Most passengers were either returning home or vacationing. But one, a petite…
It was another year at beloved public school, another year at Valley Falls High – home of brand new desks…
Seven minute talk, just a seven minute talk. No big deal. Salah. Praying five times a day. That’s a good…
Her fingers stretched toward the disturbed surface of water. Her eyes rolled to the back of her head. Then, she…
This wasn’t the first time the fisherman had hauled in a once living person, but never before had it been child-sized.
“It’s Afra,” she says wearily. “My name is Afra. Your name is Khawlah. It’s not hard to call people by…
I put the poetry on pause The Poe in me, lost cause The flow in me, found flaws And slowly…
an uninvited guest settles in the valley of my heart makes a home within my chest and refuses to depart…
Hither fly your arrows of hatred. Thither rain your spears of ignorance. But no sigh of pain escapes my lips…
The moon is just a ball that hangs in the sky That can’t shine on its own, but it can…