Fiction

It’s the first day of school, ten minutes past eight, when some kid ambles through our classroom door.
Scuffed sneakers and faded jeans. Eyes somewhere between gray and blue and green. Scraped-up elbows and a banged-up lunchbox.
Ordinary.

By Neima Nour

By Anastasia Membrino

SKRCCHHH. 

Suddenly the disk on my back comes to a stop. The needle is lifted up and the record is exchanged. 

By Silas Weeks

By Multiple Authors

Blank paper and sharpened pencil = possibilities.- Britta Fitzgerald

Looking out window, imaging rounding second. - Mitchell Catlett

Overthinking? I don't, maybe I do.  - Wren Paschel-Harbour

By Oliver Crainich

By Freya Heinzer

By Multiple Authors

On a screen that isn't reality. - William Addo

Why is my body slowing down? - Sabrina Borrows

Is all lost? Or am I? - Damien Lilly

School should’ve taught us the cure. Eli Hand

 

By Liivo Gorczyk

By Ben Rumsey

By Damien Lilly

By Multiple Authors

2019 the year positive became negative. - Sawyer Paschel-Harbour

Masks worn, faces obscured, emotions concealed. - Maelyn Slavik

When they see us, they don’t. - Isha Ibrahim