“Look at those tits.” I was wearing … a cornflower-blue Ann Taylor dress made of soft, jersey cotton. The dress was hardly form-fitting, and nothing about it invited the usage of tits.
The Sky Turns Blue and the Sun Appears by Janna Leyde
Category: June 2013
Jazz is the Root by Angie M. Chatman
There are three safe topics that I can talk about with my dad – the law, downhill skiing, and jazz. The first two are of interest solely to him, but the last we share.
I Have to Tell You Something by Laurie Easter
Standing behind the Green Gables Elementary School library with my best friend, Marnie. “There is something I have to tell you.” … Marnie missed gymnastics the day the team was told.
The Sky’s the Limit by Alice Lowe
He started with T-ball at five—tiny tykes swinging eagerly, determinedly, sometimes tearfully, in a fierce contest with a stationary ball—and stayed with it through the finely honed and competitively groomed “majors,” the top rung of Little League.
The Physicist by Shiv Dutta
As a teenager growing up in a small town in northern India, I was enthralled by the romantic visions of the accomplishments of Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, Planck, and the host of physicists who had changed our understanding of the physical universe and its inner workings.
Upload Your Personal Essay Below by Amy Yao
COMMON APPLICATION FOR UNDERGRADUATE COLLEGE ADMISSION Please write an essay on a topic of your choice or on one of the options listed below. This personal essay helps us to become acquainted with you as a person and student, apart from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will also demonstrate your ability…
Interview: Susan Steinberg, author and professor
I like to tell writers in my workshops that they should first learn the rules and then break them. Author Susan Steinberg considers that corner her metaphorical home.
The Writing Life: Patterns in the Splatter by Lisa Ahn
Once upon a long-ago, I hurled high school algebra against the wall. It’s the only time I’ve ever thrown a book.
Craft: Commence(ment) by Donna Steiner
Although many of my friends are accomplished writers, I am most often around young writers, beginning writers.
