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Stories

Story of the Week
Throwing the El Camino into drive, he roared down the mountain road.
Story of the Week
1908. The puppet’s name is Sambo. Oh what a friendly boy he looks to be!
Readers' Narratives
You’re sitting eye-level with the crotch of your poetry professor.
Readers' Narratives
I have experienced baseball as an affair of adult proportions.
Readers' Narratives
San Quentin seemed an unlikely location for the study of literature.
Readers' Narratives
He’s not going to get back in bed or pretend it's about, God forbid, love.
Story of the Week
“She’s just a girl,” Sarah’s mother said. “A very, very young girl.”
Poem of the Week
Michelle dances on his forehead like an imp, like an illness in motion.
Fiction
The alert says Warning: Wild Exotic Animals Loose.
Story of the Week
The new generation doesn’t play war, which is a shame; they text.
Story of the Week
By the end of my trip to St. Thomas, I had discovered a reason to live.
Poem of the Week
When I was born I saw death devour the birth of something.
Nonfiction
The clock kept ticking, and the investors bailed out one by one.
Winter Contest Winners
When we move together in the dark I can almost get to him but I turn back.
Poem of the Week
Like a bird with a broken wing I will smudge the line of the hopscotch.
Narrative Outloud
Tobias Wolff
Readers' Narratives
I reacted like a thief caught red-handed, and snapped the screen shut.
Poem of the Week
Sometimes in sunlight the scar shines, skin smooth and tight.
Poem of the Week
Outside the kids play stretcher. One of them was dying between my hands.
Poetry
Sing to your sisters in the water, let your arms and lashes flutter.
Story of the Week
Kids were just let out of school to spend the summer running in packs.
Story of the Week
Had he been a man, we could’ve saved his life right then and there.
Fall Contest Winners
Her body too, a mystery in motion. But does she own her body?