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Sometimes, when things get particularly boring, I like to float way up high, perch myself atop a cloud, and gaze at the world below. It’s...

I am by no means an expert on nature. I’m a naturalist, but not a nature-ologist. I see the world for its intrinsic value, not for the...

This morning’s shimmers trickle from the icy sky and pool in the garden, their golden hands gently prying open basil leaves as they...

Movement 1 Home has a song. The first time I heard it I was standing outside of Incheon International Airport. I was surrounded by people...

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Shithole, she’s thinking, probably. Marie watches as her mother takes careful steps around the small dorm room. Her mother wouldn’t dare...

Predator and Prey I envy the zebra, with her eyes plopped on the side of her head. She sees the lion coming, and she runs. I am a human...

If I Were A Boy then people would not comment on the color of my clothes. Red is too provocative, Yellow is only for the spring, and...

Eris first met her when she was fourteen. She doesn't remember much of that day now. It was the first day of high school, and the entire...

Medusa They called her a monster, transformed from fair maiden into foul creature A girl whose beauty rivaled that of the gods...

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There were entire clots of them in the vines, glowing like velvet lanterns. Sam flicked one in the air, caught it in his mouth with a...

Paramount The death of a star, mutilated in space, seethes from the ruins of its own fuel It convulses into itself laughing and...

George wasn’t a thief. Her sticky fingers usually only applied to pilfered cookies and midnight snacks, but her nails were already...

Glass She is glass. Skin clear as a cloudless sky, no rainy red spots on her cheeks— She needn’t cry for weeks. Not in front of me. Like...

Heart It lay there Broken into pieces Like a shattered chandelier All of the light drained from its chamber Crimson red, bathed in blood...

Ashley Hall, Paleontologist Sophie Cushman, Archaeologist When Inspiring Girls USA learned that one of their young ambassadors had a love...