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  The Hardest Thing

  

  By yellowzoe, Broomfield, CO

  In the last few months, I’ve been asked multiple times (for college applications, job interviews, general queries, etc.), “What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever done?” Breathe. And I know that seems to be a strenuous task only for the strife-less and whimsical but there is a hollow in ev...
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  To Be a Home

  

  By yellowzoe, Broomfield, CO

  When the obese black blanket covers the sky, only I will remain. Solid and sturdy, like a seasoned tree in the solitude of the forest. I stand. A lost boy, frozen and frail, moves through the flourished stilts, they watch him, dodging bullet raindrops that pierce his tender soul. They beat down on h...