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Teen Ink Magazine, September 2006: Fiction
Jambo
by Corina C., Milton, MA
She walked outside to utter brightness - equator, SPF 100 brightness - blinked and stared at the pale asphalt. She walked down the driveway, past a young man cutting the grass with a scythe. She passed the university students, dressed in slacks and skirts and blouses, and told herself they didn’t think she looked shabby. They stared at her, snuck glances. She felt they could see through her, as if part of their color and warmth was passing through her, but never absorbed.
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The Mug
by Emily B., W. Windsor, NJ
I would throw it across the room and it would shatter into a million pieces of ceramic masterpiece-turned-disaster piece, and hot water would fly everywhere, a Niagara Falls of tea, and I would say.
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For the Poundcake
by Jessica S., New York, NY
Stop it. Stop hiding. Get your coffee-stained fingers off your face and do the job you worked for. Do the job you wanted - want - like oxygen. No, like marble poundcake. Do the job you wanted like warm marble poundcake with ice cream.
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The Shoe Rule
by Jessica B., Sheffield Village, OH
Willard Johnson was a cantankerous old man. He lived with his cantankerous old wife, Mrs. Johnson. And he hated his job.
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Red Ballon
by John M., Hemet, CA
It’s been ten years since Dad died. Ten years to the day. Ten years of figurative burying. A decade of struggling to move forward, to move on.
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Curiosity Killed That Cat
by Amalia L., Highland Park, NJ
It was drizzling the day we named our dog Curiosity after he killed the Siamese cat that belonged to the lady down the street.
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