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  Pulling Teeth

  By Emily B., Mt. Prospect, IL

  The coffin was wide open. She was so small, the body could have been a child's. But it wasn't. She was old. I didn't want to be there and it didn't matter because she was dead. On the car ride over, my older brother, Brent, had told me what it was going to be like. “There's a...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Bedtime

  By Emily B., Mt. Prospect, IL

  Let’s wait here for the sun to sink, and the birds to go to sleep. Chirping subsides, and the willows sigh, and darkness is too deep for the cricket hum, or the splashing brook, or the children’s rustling sheets. All is worn and tired now— the grass, the trees, the little fe...