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• Hot Topics > Pride & Prejudice
  It's a...Girl?: Gender Variance and the Sims

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH

  The creator of The Sims PC game, Will Wright, once said, “The human imagination is this amazing thing. We’re able to build models of the world around us, test out hypothetical scenarios, and in some sense, simulate the world.” With The Sims games, players can indeed simulate the world. Players...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  Almost

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH

  She stares like you have all the answers. “What happened?” his mother cries, her nails digging into your shoulders. [i]She hates me[/i], you think, gazing into her burning eyes. Her family—his family— tries to unlatch her hands from your body, but instead, they morph into fists as she scre...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  supergirl

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH

  if i wrote, i could be supergirl, and weave words, paint worlds of black ink. i could cure bigotry, save the earth ten times. i could do anything if i wrote....
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  dear god

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH

  dear god: are you crying? do you cry all the time, seeing what’s become of your world? war. famine. disease. these things had yet to corrupt the world when you first crafted it with your hands. now, they mar our imperfect lives. after you had finished creating our everything, did you cradle...
• Opinion > Social Issues / Civics
  barbie girls

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH

  i never wanted to be like barbie. it wasn't a conscious decision for me. it just made sense. why would i want to be like someone who could only smile, whose life was perfect? i didn't want a perfectly chiseled body, nails that never needed manicures, hair in which a strand never fell out ...
• Art /
  Photo > Photo Illustrations
  

  Beautiful World

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH
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  Photo > Photographs
  

  The Face of Money

  

  By Shinjitsu-san, Beavercreek, OH