With a GRIND and a CLANK, our old van slows to a stop. Mom can’t start it. Monster waves from the roadside. ..
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Hush! Who’s that shrieking through the forest? “HOOM-PRAAA! HOOM-PRAA!” A great big elephant. ..
FOR MY ENTIRE life, La Cocina de la Isla has closed on Sundays. Year after year customers have begged ..
María Isabel looked at the cup of coffee with milk and the buttered toast in front of her. But she couldn’t ..
PART 1 OUR FARM South Darfur, Africa September 2003-March 2004 WHEAT Finally, I am twelve. Old ..
WHEN I WAS LITTLE, A KID POINTED at me on the playground and shouted, “Her arms fell off!” ..
A Pink Mustache and Ninja Training Fact: mustaches are hilarious. Which is why I collect them. ..
1 They say the day the Governor arrived, the ravens did too. All the smaller birds flew backward into ..
MAYO CORNELIUS HIGGINS RAISED HIS ARMS HIGH TO THE SKY and spread them wide. He glanced furtively around. ..
I remember ages ago reading about how some animals, if caught in a trap, will gnaw off the captured limb ..
Once, when I was a little kid, this newscaster guy asked me if my dad was my biggest hero. No, I said. ..
I settle onto the couch with the chocolate pudding I saved from Friday’s school lunch. This silence ..
I wasn’t fast enough. Abuela appears behind me, already dressed with her makeup on, hair in a perfect ..
This was the secret thing Hanako felt about old people: she really didn’t understand them. It seemed ..
Clap, clap, clap Epic solo, Nic! […] What took you so long, song? Granddaddy! Look who’s ..
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“BROTHERS IS THE BADDEST. THEN COMES DOminicans. Dominicans don’t mess around. I’m ..
Six stencils in and it’s gone. Okay, the tag vanished by Number Two, but I have a point to prove. ..
