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Literary Journal for Young Writers

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Issue 26/June 2022

By

From the Editor

Nonfiction

The Knowing

By Lydia J. Ryans

Georgia

By Lovisa Lohmann

Commentary: Take care to differentiate reality from fiction

By Ming Wei Yeoh

2012

By Caroline Wu

Ahoy Matey

By Anne Chen

Poetry

How I’m Saying Thank You

By Lucy Somers

Homo Irrealis

By Ethan Turner

Human

By Kyra Horton

Pyaar, Mohabbat, Ishq

By Rimel Kamran

Eight Ways of Looking at the Moon

By Elena Yeatts-Lonske

The Undoing

By Amo O'Neil

everytime my father has told me to stop crying

By J.M. Aveles

George Washington’s Teeth

By Dilinna Ugochukwu

Six Word Memoir

By Cecilia Bell

Verity

By Jane Hahn

The Girl and the Other Girl

By Eva Chen

I Am Afraid of Spring Coming Too Fast

By Shiyang Su

Fiction

The Hanging Crows

By Sarah Hall-Murphy

Transcript of Interview with Retail Service Droid #1898 with Scott Desai

By Booker Wegner

Different Countries, Same World

By Christopher Tai

Bees

By Rachel Keener

Art

Nude (Afterglow)

By Jaeyeon Kim

Remembering Zeenat, Forgotten Sleeve, Rehanas-Sea

By Sabahat Ali Wani

Reel Peace

By Jeffrey Huang

Tulips

By Kashika Khurana

Overcomer

By Emmanuel Kolawole

Lunchbreak

By Kalyana Dey

Pen and Ink-Freya

By Kenzie Faulkner

Book Review

Jane Austenโ€™s โ€œMary, Mary, Quite Contraryโ€ Gets Her Own Voiceโ€“And Romance

By Carol Xu
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Issue 25/March 2022

By

From the Editor

Nonfiction

Dreams About Death

By Shane McDonnell

Legacy Ends Here

By Naomi Carr

Pungdeokcheon

By June Hyung-Kim

9/11, 2021

By Dante Antonio

The Homeless Tiger

By Annie Wang

Poetry

Suburbia Burns Bright

By Samantha Haviland

in the margins

By Aamina Mughal

grief,deconstructed

By Frances Brogan

Smoke Breaks

By Emma Lagno

Dear Brother

By Mila Cuda

What I Did This Summer

By Faline Duenas

Tormentor

By Beau Heese

Ghost Writer

By Sarah Sun

The Neighborhood Infinite

By Ryan Johnson

Swimming at Night

By Isla Walker

Blind Spots

By Catherine Stauffer

Fiction

How Coin Tosses Prove God Exists: A Lab Report

By Connie Cai

A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

By Abigail Wells

The Things We Love Most in the World

By Thais Jacomassi

After Lucy

By Divine Titus

Cassiopeia and Kowloon Rising

By Chiu-yi Rachel Ngai

From the Deli on Third

By Sam Baker

Art

Bonding

By Moses Ojo

Pond Torus

By Elizabeth Duke-Moe

Discrepancy between Predicted and Observed Time

By Jaeyeon Kim

Nostalgia

By Shitta Faruq Adรฉmรณlรก

In Pursuit of Freedom, No Good Citizen Will be Harmed

By Ethan Choi

Paradise

By Selah Dungey
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Winter Poems 2022

By

From the Editor

Poetry

i heard your name

By Nila Narain

sijo for ( i don’t know your name)

By Skylar Peck

Old Dog Secrets

By Isa Mari De Leon

Disqualified

By Clara Harden

Starving Artist

By Savannah Carmichael

Image

By Timi Sanni

How to Dress a Wound

By Allyson Ye

Rules of a Zoom Funeral

By Liam Powers

Dyspraxia

By Izzy Searle

Our Mother in the Blackberry Bushes

By Hannah Riffell

A Flock of January Sparrows

By Daniel Boyko

Art

A Bee’s Colorverse

By Alina Yuan

Pre-Chapter

By Jaeyeon Kim
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Issue 24

By

From the Editor

Nonfiction

No One Studies on Diwali

By Anoushka Kumar

One Thousand Points

By Aly Rusciano

Eighteen Year Old Never Mother

By Kathryn Lee

Dorm Room Fridge

By Kelsey Day

Go Ahead, Open up the Wrapper

By Sophene Avedissian

The Egg

By Aidan Higgins

To Lilah

By Jessica Wang

Poetry

Returning Home from a funeral.

By Ashish Kumar Singh

Delirium:

By Snigdha Garud

An End to Praying

By Ryan Skarphol

poem in which i conclude beauty is not for me

By Flourish Joshua

The Wild

By Gabrielle Beck

My Brown Skin

By DeAnthony Logwood

li li jie xin ku

By Lauren Tan

Love-in-a-Mist

By Izzy Searle

Home Will Break Out of Me Someday

By Abioye Samuel Akorede

Dead Birds and Dead Families

By Srina Bose

portrait as a winter afternoon

By Norah Brady

Birthright

By Mofiyinfoluwa Okupe

Fiction

Seedless Soil

By Mag Callahan

Smoke Ghosts

By Norah Rami

Turtle Girl

By Patricia Donato

Portrait

By William MacLeod

The Window

By Jack Arnold

Smoke in the Air

By Florianne Che

Art

What a View

By Ryan Podnar

Bike Boy

By Gissel Gomez

Gondola Ride

By Ria Parikh

Life’s Progression

By Kalvin Verner Jr.

Wake Up

By Ally Chen

Grandma’s Gaze

By Ray Zhang

Book Review

Meaning & Mortality: A Review of When Breath Becomes Air

By Abigail Blessing
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Fall Poems 2021

By

From the Editor

Poetry

Pair Bonding

By Annalisa Hansford

Haibun

By Suhrith Bellamkonda

Treacherous Water

By Taeyeon Han

Lava

By Daniel Park

A Poem in Which Nothing Touches Grief

By Samuel Victor Ajani

Ship of Theseus

By Ryan Skarphol

Delirium

By Rahma Jimoh

paperweight (2:37 AM)

By Halle Ewing

portrait of mother as nรผwa

By Fiona Lu

Mary

By Natalie Hampton

palm to palm

By Kristine Ma

Forgetting

By Charissa Zeigler

Art

Rowing on Lake Washington

By Nour Gajial
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Issue 23

By

From the Editor

Nonfiction

These Hands of Mine

By Olivia Wang

A Letter About Everything and Nothing

By Roseline Anya Okorie

Good vs Evil’s Implications for Literature and Society

By Tanay Subramanian

A Place of Worship

By Zinnia Hansen

To Measure the Intangible

By Alyssa Sherry

Poetry

Rutile and Quartz

By CA Russegger

Cold Snap

By Jonce Palmer

To Be Healthyโ€”or Not

By Alessandra Obrist

Ode to the Sky

By Sayantika Halder

an alternate timeline where i never appear

By Kalvin Verner Jr.

borrowed dreams

By Katherine Mendel

in the consequence of creation

By Grace Anderson

Hey, What’s That Behind Your Ear?

By Sydney Sackett

Science of Mourning

By Obasiota Ibe

I Speak of Hospitals, Binaries, and Alice Walker

By Kylan Tatum

Reverie

By Alexander Blickhan

When I Am Eight

By Noreen Ocampo

Fiction

Bottle Baby

By Matt Hsu

Today

By Chido Munangwa

A Checkpoint for Chosen Ones

By Ambriel Hurst

Cicadas

By Lyra Kois

Winter Tangerine

By Mira Jiang

A Home in Alaska

By Naomi Marko

Peeping Tom

By Alex Blank

Time Lapse

By Justin Gu

Twelve Summers

By Lili Namazi

Shorts

The Zipper

By Benjamin Armstrong

My Name is Scout

By Scout Benson

I-270

By Grace Gent

Under the Same Roof

By Eliana Goldenholz

Book Review

Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie

By Julissa Mendoza Robles

Art

Drop Your Guns

By Charlotte Rosario

Jellyfish Dreams, The Cultural Commute

By Edward Zhang

Eyes are the Window, Self-Portrait, The Working Machine

By Olivia Pinney

The Elysian Field

By Luke Nelson

Body

By Lola Wang

Transcendent Hues of Music

By Mihikaa Singh

From the Dog’s Eye, Among the Wildflowers

By Kiley Brockway

Non-Fiction

Bottle Baby

By Matt Hsu

Today

By Chido Munangwa

A Checkpoint for Chosen Ones

By Ambriel Hurst

Cicadas

By Lyra Kois

Winter Tangerine

By Mira Jiang

A Home in Alaska

By Naomi Marko

Peeping Tom

By Alex Blank

Time Lapse

By Justin Gu

Twelve Summers

By Lili Namazi
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