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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Law of Silence

  

  By Samaiya, Medellin, Colombia

  The soldier had been watching me for a long time before I even realized he was there. He stood silent, a camouflaged blur among the splotches of trees and sunlight. My eyes travelled slowly up to his face, my neck prickling with fear. I knew I shouldn’t have gone off exploring alone. His ...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Asexual

  

  By Samaiya, Medellin, Colombia

  I’m not homosexual, but I’m not straight, either. I’m nothing. I’ve never had sex nor even been kissed, and the funny thing about me is, I’ve never wanted to. I’m not interested. I just don’t like sex. Now, if you’re like most everybody else out there, you’re probably splutt...
• Hot Topics > What Matters
  Getting Old

  

  By Samaiya, Medellín, Colombia

  The clock is ticking my life away quietly. I should be rushing, grasping, trying to make the most of the time I have left before it’s gone. Instead, I’m watching it. Watching it swirl. Watching it disappear. It’s my birthday tomorrow. Tomorrow, I turn twenty. In my mind I ...
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  Unconscious

  

  By Samaiya, Medellí­n, Colombia

  There was a dead girl in front of the library this morning. She was breathing, but she wasn’t alive. Whatever existence she’d had during her few years – I calculated she was around 13 – certainly wasn’t life. She was tossed carelessly on the trash-­littered sidewalk in front of a boarded-...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  The Time has Come

  

  By Samaiya, Medellín, Colombia

  I feel myself Falling Slowly, gently, as though I were being lowered Being caught by strong arms My brother's arms Someone is screaming My face feels wet I look up His tears fall on my cheeks Don't cry, I say in silence. I will see you again Thoughts...come...slower...now I look ...
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  A Child of Two Nations

  

  By Samaiya, Medellín, Colombia

  I was born of two countries Two nations Together I belong to both Both belong to me They are a part of me I love my countries One is the power of the world It is the Great Land of freedom It is the strength of the present age The other is small Looked down upon But it is noble ...
• Hot Topics > Environment
  Print Your Homework on Both Sides to Save Trees

  

  By Samaiya, Medellín, Colombia

  We students, whether we’re in school or in college, waste enormous quantities of paper on our term papers, theses, and other assignments when we print them on only one side of the page. Sure, supposedly they look nicer and more official that way, but, do you know how many trees we’re th...