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Lockdown
by SHAYNA LENG (Singapore)
November 2021
Their shells pricked my fingers, the spikes digging tauntingly into my skin.
by AASHNA PAWAR (United States)
November 2021
It was the boys' table at lunch. They were all in my grade, some of them my friends.
by MAXWELL SURPRENANT (United States)
September 2021
I long for the day when lockdown ends and I can safely visit Evie again.
by FIONA MADSEN (United States)
April 2021
I am coming of age in a world that doesn't make sense to me. I will turn eighteen quietly, without a party, without my extended family.
by TULA SINGER (Cuba)
April 2021
The embassy called and approved our request to leave the country. So we packed our clothes and a couple of other essentials, leaving the rest behind.
by AMALIA COSTA (United Kingdom)
August 2020
We come in droves, frothing at the mouth and baying for blood.
Our enemy invisible, stretched across the world like the taut skin of a drum.
by ANNA O'CONNOR (Ireland)
August 2020
I do not see the stars from where I stand
but I know they are there.
by SHERRY SHU (Canada)
August 2020
He scuttled furiously from beneath the undergrowth, pausing every few seconds to catch his breath.
by LIORA SCOP (South Africa)
August 2020
They say 7 billion people stayed home today
2.2 billion children stayed out of school
by NEERAJA KUMAR (India)
August 2020
125 miles.
I never imagined they could be so close.
by MARIANA SANTIBANEZ (Mexico)
August 2020
As we turn into ghost towns and ghost stories,
I memorize the steps, the corners, the edges.