National Teen Storyteller Contest
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Fiction
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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Fiction
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
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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Fiction
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