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Poem for Graph Paper / Three/One

November 20, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Sal Kang

assignment
unfinished

summer days
spent in the
windowless
science lab […]

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To Live

November 6, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Claire Shin

[fiction] Emma Williams woke up at ten o’clock on Saturday morning, darkness flooding her window. She blinked twice. She forgot her dreams. Shouldn’t there be sunlight? she thought to herself. Peering helplessly around her room, she fumbled for her glasses in the dark, stupidly discovering that they could not help her see a thing in the pitch blackness […]

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Skins / For Helena

October 23, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Anna Špirochová

skin(s)
sparks of lust shoot from it
yet with our fingertips
we create a circle of trust
a circle of us
the misunderstanding: […]

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Blood Drive

October 9, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Sang Yun Jee

flowery wine-scented air rises from cotton
swabs that have cleaned so many arms.
now they are little litter-poppies
loitering about the needle and syringe […]

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One of Your Ceramic Angels Fell from the Mantel, It’s in Pieces

September 25, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Grace Molenda

[creative nonfiction] In Philadelphia. I don’t normally carry a backpack, but today, practicality prevails, and my shoulder bag has been replaced by a maroon two-strap from an earlier decade. With it I am wearing a white dress shirt, green cotton pants with an unforgiving elastic waistband […]

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American Alien

September 11, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Jenna Bao

I am an alien
My eyes, my skin color, my being
Jump out like a wilting wisteria in the midst of
A perfumed garden of pruned, perfect, and pretty pansies […]

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A Time for Dying

August 28, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Emma Rose Gowans

[fiction] My grandfather’s eyes turn old before he does. We watch them as they yellow—changing from a pure white into an egg yolk, runny and discolored. The way he watches the world around him changes too; he seems to watch now in quiet anticipation […]

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This Vision Makes Us Beautiful

August 14, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Teddi Haynes

we have folded into a day
where we can see any
color we want: royal purple,
recesses of indigo, […]

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Letter to the Intelligentsia

July 31, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Amanda Lopez

In this cage of preconceived notions,
—in the crevices of God’s palm,
You’ve seen me wallow in my sorrows in the cortex
And scream to the heavens of insanity […]

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Four from the Graveyard

July 17, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Dele Smith

[creative nonfiction] In China, you are expected to conceal your emotions. Sometimes, it helps to comfort yourself with a fictitious, whimsical story on death, like that of the bone carver. But when you are helpless, lost in the sea of your emotions, there is nothing left to do but to let the waves pull you down […]

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Treehouse

July 3, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Amanda Lopez

[creative nonfiction] The magnolia tree in my front yard blossomed in early March; the branches weighed down with huge white flowers, only a breath away from the ivy-coated ground. My brother and I used to swing from these branches, flipping over them and putting our weight on thinner […]

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from a queer man who grew up with whitman

June 19, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Amanda Lopez

I. “In the stillness his face was inclined towards me, while the moon’s clear beams shone, And his arm lay lightly over my breast—and that night I was happy.”
that night i was happy. and it was not moonlight i saw but instead the orange glow of the lights[…]

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The Flow of Madness

May 29, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Emily Matuska

[fiction] Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock; he stared straight, unblinking, at the obnoxiously white wall. Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock, as he stared, he began to notice figures forming from the tiny ridges and divots that made up the texture of the wall. He saw a boy with no face and a girl […]

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Garden of Remembrance

May 15, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Ephie Hauck

[flash prose] Monday. There is a stranger at my door. He won’t stop knocking, won’t stop peering through the windows. He swears that he once knew me. I could remember, he says, if I’d just look at him. I shut the blinds. *     *     * Tuesday. There are no longer any mirrors in […]

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Seven Confessions

May 1, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Vivian Parkin DeRosa

1. My childhood ended when the dog arrived. *     *     * 2. It was late August. The stream of freedom inspired by the beginning of summer had mellowed to a trickle, and we stuck our tongues out in hopes to catch a drop. My younger sisters and I would wallow in the shallow end of […]

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Blurred Faces

April 17, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Amanda Lopez

[flash prose] When you first open your eyes, all you can see is the brightness. You don’t know what it is, but you feel your stubby fingers reach for that light. Pale clouds of cream dot your vision as you squirm, your back brushing against a fur blanket. You feel tender hands wrap delicately around […]

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Far From Normal

April 2, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Niko Boskovic

[creative nonfiction] Given my personal perspective as an autistic person, nowhere in my personal vernacular does the word “normal” appear. It’s something I’ve never experienced. Neither is it something I have aspired to become. Perfectly “normal” is so far from my life goals that you might not believe me when I say that I would […]

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KB

March 20, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Jennifer Ly

[creative nonfiction] Well, this is gonna hurt like a female dog (unfortunately I have to watch my profanity, so just use your imagination). The autobiography of seventeen-year-old me, that is. I feel like I have some insight, enough insight on being a black young woman in America. Being born so, I’m automatically important and destined […]

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Three Shorts—Strawberry Hill, Spotlight, Revolution

March 6, 2019/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2019 / Edie Patterson

Welcome to our new occasional series, School Lunch. A youth spotlight, School Lunch is a curated bi-weekly feature offering fiction, poetry, flash prose, personal essay, YA, and CNF, from writers ranging in ages 13 through 17. Please enjoy. ~The Editors   Strawberry Hill [fiction] On the last day of summer, Brynn sits in the blackberry […]

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Glitch Wisdom

May 12, 2023/in Blog / KJ McCoy
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Lessons on Getting Paid: My First Year as a Freelance Writer

April 14, 2023/in Blog / EJ Saunders
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How to Kill a Cat, or How to Prepare for CATastrophe

March 10, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Secret Histories of Everywhere

June 2, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Brian Lynn
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Into the Linguistic Rabbit Hole

May 5, 2023/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Dancing into Detachment

April 7, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Robert Kirwin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

LitDish: Ten Questions With Isabel Quintero

May 26, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Chop Day

May 19, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Hannah Felt Garner
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Litdish: Ten Questions With David A. Robertson

April 28, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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