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• Poetry > Free Verse
  A Poem For You

  

  By crookshanks, Lakewood, CA

  I’ve wrote my love out on paper I have thoughts bundled in my head No better way to say this but through A Poem For You Listen to the words whisper my Thoughts and feelings to you They are hiding in these lines somewhere In this Poem For You My love for you will preserve in a place Wh...
• Opinion > School / College
  The Ideal School

  

  By crookshanks, Lakewood, CA

  My ideal school is a school quite unlike any school we’ve heard of. This school consists of a large library and basic recreational facilities. And that’s all. There are no classrooms. The school motto is “I sought not to bring men to me, but to themselves,” a quote by Emerson. The school is...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  My Mom

  

  By crookshanks, Laurel, MD

  My mother loved movies. The day after we set foot in America, she insisted we go watch a movie. After paying for the movie “Original Sin” she excitedly led us into the dark aisles while explaining the concept of original sin in the Bible. I don’t know if you’ve watched that movie, but the fi...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  The Scent of a Room

  

  By crookshanks, Lakewood, CA

  The first thought that came to mind the first time I walked into my dorm room at my new boarding school was, “It smells like carpet.” If I had said that out loud, and someone who heard had asked me what carpet smells like, I would have drawn a blank. Random thoughts like that pop into my head al...
• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  Defining Me

  

  By crookshanks, Lakewood, CA

  Three months before I left the U.S. for a one-year visit in China, I thought about leaving my friends, my house, my pet, my team – my everything. I thought about being in a country where people would call me by my real name, Yiwen, the name I was embarrassed to be called in the U.S. (I would quick...