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Fiction, Essays & MoreNational 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, Essays & MoreNational 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, Essays & MoreNational Teen Storyteller Contest
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