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  Monster

  

  By KarenLai, Lake Zurich, IL

  I stand before the full body mirror in my room, wearing a flimsy camisole and grey shorts. I pull up my tank so I can pinch my stomach where the fat is gathered. I frown. “How repulsing.” I stand sideways to the mirror, and my frown widens. My belly is threatening to explode, no doubt ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Dear Andrew

  

  By KarenLai, Lake Zurich, IL

  Dear Andrew Baker, Wait, let me guess. I know what your first thoughts must be right now reading this letter. Who is this from? Is it a love letter? No it’s not a love letter. This is far from a love letter. This is my last note. Last note you wonder? It’s exactly what I said. This is my suicid...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hurt Girl

  

  By KarenLai, Lake Zurich, IL

  Help. All you wish--pray for is help. Your stomach is tight, so similar to the emptiness of a dusty playground. Are you alone? You wish--no, you pray that you are not. But why does the knot in your weak perishing body laugh at your desperate wish? You are alone. Everything r...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Don’t Say Good-Bye

  

  By KarenLai, Lake Zurich, IL

  We see growing up every day. We lose, we shed our old skins of innocence, and quickly, too quickly, we see reality. Say good-bye softly. Yet we are still children just better at pretending, We lose, We shed our untainted dreams, our friendship with time, our faith, quickly, too qu...