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A cacophony of teen voices selected from youngwritersproject.org, an open community for youths to share, learn and publish.
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Tonight
Tonight
Tonight is screaming panic…
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3 days ago
Lost and Found
Lost and Found
I believe in you, my soul…
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Apr 6
Rabbit Feathers
Rabbit Feathers
On the morning of my little brother’s seventh birthday, I woke him before dawn, coaxed him from his bed, and took him out back to the woods…
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Mar 29
Why Can’t We Remember?
Why Can’t We Remember?
Humans are unable to react to death if the numbers are too high to comprehend. One death can mobilize a community, even a country. Many…
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Mar 25
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
In words and illustration
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Mar 23
Citizen of the Void
Citizen of the Void
I remember when I used to pray…
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Mar 22
It’s What I Left Behind
It’s What I Left Behind
Fire! I took my socks and shoes and ran…
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Mar 21
Trees
Trees
Stop hurting the planet…OK?
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Mar 18
Teenage burden
Teenage burden
Ever feel invisible? Taking on everyone else’s problems until there’s no room for your own?
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Mar 16
The Long Goodbye
The Long Goodbye
I drop my bag on the floor, next to the door. Standing still, I wait for Papa’s reaction; a yell to put it where it goes, a lecture on how…
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Mar 15
Real Magic
Real Magic
“Where were you?!”
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Mar 14
Dear Fairy Tale World
Dear Fairy Tale World
I have spent my life folded between the pages of fairy tales, trapped inside a beautiful world where anything is possible and “impossible…
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Mar 11
The Difference Between Your Heart and a Frog’s
The Difference Between Your Heart and a Frog’s
Your foot comes down with a crack on cold brittle ice, breaking the thin top layer and releasing frigid water that leaks up from the…
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Mar 10
Chalky Road
Chalky Road
It was a road and that was all, but a road like thunder beneath a bleached grey above. And it was a car, the make and model obscured by…
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Mar 9
Self portrait as the sky
Self portrait as the sky
you think you know me, marking off my boundaries with your words.
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Mar 8
Appreciate the present
Appreciate the present
The good old days are now.
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Mar 7
Leaving for Afghanistan
Leaving for Afghanistan
I feel a scratch against my cheek as he kisses it goodbye. You need to shave! I insist. It’s the last thing I say. He walks out the door.
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Mar 7
Heart Monitor
Heart Monitor
I believe that people look at the lows in their life, the negative times where they just feel like breaking, and they think that they’re…
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Mar 4
The Teen
People write novels on the enigma that is the teen. They cannot figure out how these people trapped in the in-between can exist and…
function. Hey, neither can we.
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These people analyze teens for all the wrong reasons: they look at how video games affect our brains but forget to calculate the amount of hours spent on homework. I have not played a videogame in years and yet there is still something caught in my brain that I can’t shake loose. Can you diagnose that?
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They say we’re moody because we don’t get enough exercise and while it might factor in, they really should focus on how we’re in the midst of a sort of…
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Mar 2
Plaid Shirt
Plaid Shirt
Hey. You probably didn’t think you’d ever hear from me again. Maybe you didn’t pick up because you lost my number and the one flashing on…
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Mar 3
7 Billion People in the World
7 Billion People in the World
I don’t understand Why you say that You two will be together forever.
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Mar 1
My favorite place
My favorite place
In the beginning, there were trees. That’s how it always begins, right? With the trees. Conifer and deciduous, Oak or pine or maybe some…
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Feb 29
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