Offense and Satisfaction
ByBoarding-school misfit and cancer survivor Lark Spencer challenges her tormentor, saber champion Sophia Nowak, to an epic fencing duel that ends in a way neither they nor their schoolmates expect.
It Happens
ByAn ex-soldier who suffered debilitating PTSD struggles to articulate and make sense of his wartime experiences and how they’ve shaped his life now, fifteen years after his deployments to Afghanistan and Yemen.
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Elena
ByIn one of the winning stories from our Teen Writing Contest, a young man’s preparing to depart for college must face his complicated feelings about leaving his neurodivergent sister behind.
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