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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Blessings and Amends

  By Aliza G., Woodbridge, CT

  It was the November of second grade, and strep throat had been spreading like the plague through my class. Two girls and I were absent toward the end of the outbreak, experiencing scarlet-striped throats and aching bones. We missed an entire week of work on our rainforest project, so my second-grade...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Thread

  By Aliza G., Woodbridge, CT

  The knitting club meets at the women’s center every ­Friday. Today they are working on ­pastel-colored baby socks. The women clink metal needles and grumble about their husbands, ex-husbands, and rheumatic pets. “Charlie forgot to take out the recycling yesterday. The trash man had to c...
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  Kosher Salt

  By Aliza G., Woodbridge, CT

  Jed shook me up at 9 a.m. The air was tart with sleep breath, and the light streamed through the window like rhinestones. Jed said we had a snow day. When we staggered into the hallway, it smelled savory and warm. Gramps was making his biscuits and gravy. “Hey! If it isn’t attack of the clone...
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  On the Top

  By Aliza G., Woodbridge, CT

  The man with the raisined face and a blue glass eye straps us into the seats and we’re off, circling around the flashing spokes of the Ferris wheel. It’s early September, and it feels like what Howie calls “naked weather” – you can take all your clothes off and feel just fine. It’s sp...