Fiction
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
Clairvoyance
Tanisha Shende
11th grade, New JerseyFirst Place — The ground is perpetually damp, the buildings creak, and the sun seems more like a hole forced into the sky...
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
The Thing in the Wall
Ife Olatona
17 years old
Washington D.C./Olun, NigeriaSecond Place — If we whispered the name of a dead person, it winked like a friend. If we suppressed our fright and kept quiet...
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
The Pumpkin
Lamar Mitchell
9th grade, IllinoisThird Place — It was a dark and stormy October night in the beautiful state of Wyoming and Farmer Tim was about to go to bed...
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Fiction
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
Floor Meditations
Dominique de Castro, 11th Grade, New YorkFirst Place — Dust clouds hung in the air. Sun rays wove between each particle in an intricate lattice, covering the study...
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
Skeleton Love
Joseph Caluya, 12th Grade, NevadaSecond Place — The stares of the cruel eyes penetrated through me, transmitting a notion that my body was some sort of anathema...
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FictionNational Teen Storyteller Contest
16 Siroccos
Mary Lawrence Ware, 10th Grade, New YorkThird Place — My mother says menopause is full of pain. Hot flashes, anger, despair, insomnia, a surge of untamable emotions...
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Fiction
The Question of Where We Begin
Kyle Minor
We begin with the trouble, but where does the trouble begin? My uncle takes a pistol and blows his brains out.Now we may proceed to the aftermath
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FictionThe Model Short Story
On "My Aeschylus” by Jim Shepard
Josh Weil
The best short stories are simultaneously the least understandable and most fully felt. They hits us with undeniable force, a concrete impact...
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Fiction
Joyride
David Abrams
Zeildorf had been on guard duty since 2 p.m. and he’d been paired with Suarez. That was the first bad thing. Suarez was known for his weak bladder—compared...