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Teen Ink Magazine,
March 2008 :
Fiction Articles
15-Minute Wait for the Results
by Emily B., New Market, MD
Skinny bird legs lying next to mine.
The one rubbing my thigh is tapping
up and down and up and down
because you are nervous about something.
Your finger, the one with the big red plastic ring,
is tapping on the peeling dark veneer rhythmically.
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Bus 72
by Kevin L., Lynbrook, NY
It’s a long ride home, and Bus 72 always rolls at the same pace.
An unpleasant odor seeps from the man sitting to my left, who is dressed in tatters and mutters threats under his breath.
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Can I Help You?
by Sam B., Cohasset, MA
Her thin lips spread to reveal white teeth, too white. Or maybe it’s not that her teeth are too white, maybe it’s the contrast created by the pink, diseased, old lady gums that makes her smile seem unnatural.
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Chalkboard Scribbles
by Aubry B., Port Charlotte, FL
Scribbles on the chalkboard. That’s all that was really there, some shapes probably, numbers and some math symbols. He knew them all – not like it was a foreign language. It was just kind of pointless. It wasn’t even a chalkboard; it was a whiteboard.
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Haunted
by Kaily D., Aptos, CA
And here we have Amanda Brown. Slouching in her seat, eyes unfocused, makeup smudged, she is doodling circles in her notebook in pink gel-pen and twisting one strand of frizzy red hair around her finger. The teacher drones on and she does not listen.
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Just Friends
by Jessika R., Keller, TX
Final class of the day; I’m almost done. I’ve managed to avoid him for the majority of the day, somehow escaping his attempts at conversation. Always somewhere to go, something to do. Sorry, no time to chat.
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