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  Through the Threshold

  

  By KatGrace, Grovetown, GA

  Graduation. A day when hats are thrown and alcohol is guzzled by the gallon and parties rage until dawn. A rite of passage. A threshold to a new and independent life. And every teenager in Macomb was bristling with excitement… except for Henry Starks. While the rest of the graduates in his clas...
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  If Walls Could Talk

  

  By KatGrace, Grovetown, GA

  People always say with a wistful gleam in their eye, “If walls could talk….” Well, I’m here to tell you that we want to talk just as badly as you want us to. Trust me, if we could we would. Because it’s taxing to keep secrets to yourself and hold emotions inside you. It makes your paint pe...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  #@&*$!

  

  By KatGrace, Grovetown, GA

  Friends, I feel it necessary to call attention to a troubling and common plight today. It is so vulgar, so vile, that it pains me to have to write about it now. We have been taught by our English teachers to respect and revere language. Words are strong conveyances of emotion. They have the power to...
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  Going Home

  

  By KatGrace, Grovetown, GA

  A dining table had never felt more like a prison than right now. I’m sitting, literally cornered since we had to cram extra chairs in for all the relatives. I’m suffocating, but I keep eating my food and smiling, nodding when it seems appropriate. In between the chatter, they drown my mother in ...