I looked at my first marvel entry, at the very beginning of my Marvels and Oddities journal, which I’d ..
THE STORYTELLER There was even a time is how my papa’s father, Nana Mosi, the village storyteller, ..
Big Man Blues The year was 1954. James Junior learned about love and loss before he learned to read. ..
April 29, 1992 I never knew a pair of shoes could scare me so much, but when I see Umma’s and Appa’s ..
Chapter 2 I quietly enter our row with my arms crossed over my chest to cover the gigantic wet spot. ..
July 24 My mother named me Gabriela after my grandmother who- coincidentally-didn’t want to meet ..
“Damn,” Coach Johnson muttered. “That’s four fouls, Drew!” he shouted to our King ..
One funny thing about life and all the stuff that happens while you’re living it is that mostly ..
*1 Flames Across the Water Nine robed figures dressed all in white. Heads covered with softly pointed ..
Melvin Robinson lay in the bottom of the bunk bed he’d been sharing with his older brother, Chuck, ..
Minni’s heart soared as the small plane’s wheels lifted from the ground. She loved being ..
This was the secret thing Hanako felt about old people: she really didn’t understand them. It seemed ..
Mahatma Gandhi was born Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi on 2 October 1869, in the small town of Porbandar ..
Sylvia Mendez imagined her first day of third grade at Westminster School. She would use her freshly ..
Up on the Hill- Foley Hill, some say, but we just say the Hill- we look down on downtown- not looking ..
Babygirl doesn’t even cry when I suck my teeth and undo her braid for the fourth time. If anything, ..
Three years ago, we moved for the first time in my life. In fact, apart from the two nights at a neighbor’s ..
School. Not my favorite thing. Especially the first week back after a glorious summer off. I always dread ..
The pies were fake, but my grandparents didn’t know that. Not at first, anyway. My mother had invited ..
Everybody in gym class is talking. We’re like a chicken house with thirty biddies going cheep-cheep-cheep ..
1° MOMS HAD WARNED ME I’d get deep in trouble one day. I shoulda believed her. Today was that ..
She came home from school today. Skipping and dancing. Humming a song under her breath. Clutching a dream ..
Chapter 2 Triangle Friends We have a break right after second period, and it’s the first time of the day when ..
Nicky was born in 1909, into a century full of promise. ‘At Nicky’s, school, the students ..
