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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Another World to Save

  By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA

  The room smelled half-heartedly of poop and old age. I didn’t want to be there. I had homework to do, invisible worlds to save. But I couldn’t leave—I’d promised I’d come every week. And since I’d already defected last week (math test) and the week before (tired), I had no more excus...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Goodbye to July

  By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA

  Ms. Ruth loved sunshine. I knew by the way she gazed—how the sun misted her eyes and teased a blush from the pastel-white of her cheeks. She dreamed of out there, but she was in here, barred from July by a set of porch steps. Her wheelchair could not carry her down those steps. I sat, powerles...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  Just Add Water

  By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA

  I was an old woman at age eight. The front lawn had bulged overnight, becoming a mountain too steep to climb. Lemons had infested the pink cabinets of my kitchen, and I lacked a recipe for lemonade. I later found the ingredients were simple: just add water. But at the tender age of eight, who knew? ...
• Fiction > All Fiction
  The Silent Holocaust

  By Shiyi Z., Peachtree City, GA

  “Careful, now. Try not to fall, Mr. Bailey.” “Daley,” the man corrects, for the second or third time. He hobbles a few more steps, then sighs and pushes wisps of hair like clouds out of his eyes. His head throbs. He must have fallen asleep without his pillow. Odd, the thou...