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  Voice of Democracy Essay 2012

  

  By Yolo14, San Jose, CA

  Every year on the Fourth of July, as dusk descends, my block gathers on the corner of Hanchett and Tillman. We unpack folding chairs. We sit down, and we wait. We wait until its dark, eyeing the sky—then a collective exclamation, and the fireworks have started. They come up slowly first and then f...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Paper Cranes for Japan

  

  By Yolo14, San Jose, CA

  In the fifteen minutes before homeroom ends, you and Liz sit cramped and cross legged on the carpet, folding paper cranes from pink and white and orange squares. Together, the two of you have been quite productive—hundreds of the birds lie on their sides all around you. They remind you of flowers ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Process

  

  By Yolo14, San Jose, CA

  A memory—I sit at the piano, hoping that rote repetition will drill the piece I work on into my hands. After plowing past a particular passage of chords I have stumbled through for days, I feel vaguely inadequate. The piece is by no means new; weeks of wrestling with it to get it to where it is no...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Laundromat

  

  By Yolo14, San Jose, CA

  A block from your house there's a cramped parking lot with a Subway's, a Chinese-food-to-go, a Laundromat whose light spills out on the sidewalk at night, and a dollar store with a sign that lies,”'everything here under 99 cents.” On the curb right outside of the Laundromat, an old wo...