“So you’re in love …”
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Verse
by Emma Stein
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Newark Academy
Short Hills, NJ

“Each person speaks a different figure”
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Verse
by Elizabeth McClure
S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities
Charleston, SC

I smell a rat!
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Nonfiction
by Kiyanna Hill
.Appomattox Regional Governor’s School
Petersburg, VA

“Have you broken the drinking cup?”
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Verse
by Marina Stevenson
Renaissance School
Charlottesville, VA

“Honey, I’m home …
again!”
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A play excerpt
by
Kelly Roderick
California High School
San Ramon, CA

A prom dress, toenails, cubicles, and oblivious mothers
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Pencil Shavings
on
“Recycling”

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