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• Nonfiction > Travel & Culture
  Just Another Day

  

  By zozoe, Jerusalem, Israel

  The alarm beeps. I open one eye, half way. It’s six thirty. I groan I hit the snooze button. Just five more minutes. It’s a quarter to seven by the time I finally roll out of bed. I head to the shower. I bathe quickly. There hasn’t been a lot of rain this year. We need to conserve water. At se...
• Hot Topics > Bullying
  Dear Bully

  

  By zozoe, Jerusalem, Israel

  Dear Bully, Remember that girl, the one in first grade, who you laughed at and told her that her dress looked like a nightgown? Remember how you decided, in second grade, that her middle name was funny and called her by it and laughed every time? Remember how in third grade she wasn't allowe...
• Hot Topics > Health
  I Like Eating

  

  By zozoe, jerusalem, Israel

  I have recently come to a useful conclusion about my weight and eating habits. My desire to be skinny is overpowered by my love of good food, including chocolate. Now, I'm not obese or fat. I'm just not skinny. Maybe you could call me pudgy or plump. I'm the girl people say would look really goo...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Come After Me

  

  By zozoe, jerusalem, Israel

  Why don’t you ever see it from where I stand? Why don’t you get what I’m telling you? Why do you make it so hard just to be me? I just want to feel at home and feel alive inside Haven’t you ever been little girl? Don’t you remember what its like to feel hurt? Doesn’t something de...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Shadow

  

  By zozoe, jerusalem, Israel

  A shadow Not one that creeps up behind you But one that is inside you My shadow is me Or what used to be me It haunts me day and night When I wake up It’s already there I can’t get rid of it But not for lack of trying It stays above me Darkening my path It won’t leave me alon...