No one had ever had a birthday party like mine. I was allowed to invite ten girls from my fifth-grade class to an overnight party at Cats Gymnastics.
Cats Gymnastics by Brittany Ackerman
Category: Essays
St. Anthony’s Mistake by Olivia Flaherty-Lovy
Last fall, I learned my mother had stopped praying.
In the Senate We Read Dante and I Loved Him by Donovan Dennis
We — the U.S. Senate’s thirty teenage pages—were divided according to our sponsoring senator’s party.
My Mother’s Bath Time Story by Yuko Iida Frost
In the early evening, my mother and father packed soap and towels into their wooden buckets, we slipped on our winter jackets, and the three of us walked to the nearest bath house.
I’m OK by Harrison Reed
When the world shut down, we made Old Fashioneds.
Seder Night by Sabena Stark
One of us was going to get smacked. My sister Susie and I knew it and were kicking each other under the table to keep from laughing..
Picardo Pilgrimage by Adrienne Ross Scanlan
It’s been two years since I walked during Yom Kippur…fasting and light-headed and hungry amid temptations of raspberries sweet and crimson and left too long on the vine.
In Observance of My Hometown by Danielle Shorr
I woke up…to a barrage of text messages from friends… It was 10 a.m., and I was contextless.
The Letters You’ll Never Read by Romila Santra
You are talking—it’s not really your fault that to everyone besides Ma, Baba and me, your sounds don’t hold meaning.
Samskara by Krishna Chari
It is interesting, the thoughts that accompany solitary journeys down long corridors.
