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  Writer Alyssa B. Sheinmel

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  First-time novelist and Hemingway fanatic Alyssa Sheinmel made her debut in young adult fiction last month with the novel The Beautiful Between, in which average girl Connelly Sternin develops a friendship with the “prince” of her New York high school, Jeremy Cole. And through sharing family sec...
• Fiction > Fan Fiction
  Neverland

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  He fiddled with his tie, running his palms across the green silk and playing with the knot, examining the size and shape in the dark parts of a painting at the far end of the room. He then began to work on the buttons of his blazer, unbuttoning and re-buttoning each one before pulling at the cuffs, ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Top

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  My eyes strain to reach the end of that big open sky and as they start to hurt from all the looking I just rub my eyes and continue staring, watching it as it just keeps going and going and going. There is so much of it out above me that I can’t bear to look away, not for a minute, because its siz...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Just Mork

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  I found out what love was when I was seven. It was hot: June, I think. I was sitting in the back of the bus, on top of the world, playing games like Truth or Dare and Bloody Knuckles with Tom and Doug and Shannon. They were my friends – handpicked by our mothers, thrown together in playgroups and ...
• Fiction > Historical Fiction
  The Parlor

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  All of us was sick with it. Sick as dogs, my brother said. I didn’t know what we was sick with, but whatever it was, we was sick with it, and watching the city broil wasn’t helping no one. The sun, white, almost, made the heat rise in unforgiving waves from the pavement. The world shimmere...
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  Spargel

  

  By Julia_H, Merrimac, MA

  There is only one word that I know how to say in German. Mappenklemmplatte. Binder clip. Why my father took this as a sign to pick up everything I knew – from my bed to my dog to my favorite pen to the “Our Happy Home” mat by the door – and move me to Germany with him is a mystery. ...