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Dear Cora, Where are you, my dear? Where have they taken you? I write this letter hunkered down in a trench preparing for battle. If I knew where I was, I would certainly tell you, but I’m afraid I do not. All I know now is the sound of incessant shellfire and the beating of my heart. All I know ... - Opinion > Points of View“Oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties, above the fruited plain…” In 1893, Katharine Lee Bates captured America for the natural, unscathed magnificence that lies beneath the hustle and bustle of daily life in this wonderful nation. From her vi...
- Poetry > Free VerseI see a crystal dusk And cows gathering their young A gravel drive—worn by time With stories, silent stories That the world will never know I hear the forlorn low of a bull Calling in the thunder The night The rain And baby birds beckon their mothers With dependent songs I smell t...
- Fiction > Historical FictionThe moon was clear and pristine, fully luminescent, on the night of my party. Its gold cast set my eyes to dancing. The jewels of my tiny tiara twinkled daintily atop my head. I turned from my mirror and lifted my skirts gently with my white satin gloves to begin my descent. I was a delicate chi...
- Fiction > Historical FictionCurfew, Kentucky 1924 You can learn two things from the name of our town. One, we don’t stay up very late into the night, and two, there aren’t very many of us (hints the “few” part). Momma says that’s nothing to be ashamed of, but then again, Momma ain’t ashamed of much… The...
- Nonfiction > All NonfictionWho exactly is Nancy Drew? To some, she was the escape from poverty during the Great Depression. To others she became an imaginative way to get away from the war times of the 1940s. Or she might have been the center of a 1950’s book club with dozens of chatty girls. In recent times, people see...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsDid you know that in Spanish, Esperanza means hope? I guess it's kind of ironic, since hope is the moral of the story. Esperanza Ortega, who lives on El Rancho de las Rosas in Aguascalientes, Mexico in the 1920s, thought that nothing could possibly go wrong in her life. She was surrounded by ser...
- Poetry > Free VerseI am from filthy bare feet And a '94 Chevy truck Ponytails and Rolled-down windows Luscious green cornfields The cleansing smell after it rains I am from the fragrant aroma Of warm chess pie So fresh I taste Grandmother's slanted cursive recipe From their rolling farmland, I...
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