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  Thieved

  

  By Emmyluwho, Mckinney, TX

  Today I discovered that roofs are not the most stable mode of transportation available. Loose terra-cotta tiles shot out from beneath my boots and shattered on the concrete below as I stumbled along. I swung out onto someone’s balcony and back up onto the metal rail. Voices bellowed behind me,...
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  Put On a Brave Face

  

  By Emmyluwho, Mckinney, TX

  There were people everywhere in the train station. And faces. Some smiling, some crying, some it was terribly hard to know what they were doing. I just held tight to my mother’s hand as she led me to my school group. I saw my friends and waved merrily to them. Mother lowered herself eye-level wit...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  The Dust

  

  By Emmyluwho, Mckinney, TX

  It’s 1935. It is a year of black dust, wire fences, Papa’s hat and Mama’s brown dresses. It is the year my home changed forever. In better years of rain, the wide field around our house would be a golden, swaying sea. Papa would have his team of two horses pull the plow along row after row an...