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  Whose expectations?

  

  By weeksend, Carlsbad, CA

  I've always been a straight-A student, and I'd never questioned the value of that. Now with college apps looming, I'd started to wonder why grades matter so much. Why is getting into a “good” college so important? For the first time I'm questioning material success and realizing that the only re...
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  Love at First Sight

  

  By weeksend, Carlsbad, CA

  You see that guy sitting by the coffee shop window, third table from the left, the one with the endearingly messy hair, the faded jeans, and the strong, graceful hands curled around his coffee cup? You know the utter certainty that he's The One, Mr. Right, your own Prince Charming, the one and only ...
• Fiction > Thriller/Mystery
  Victory

  

  By weeksend, Carlsbad, CA

  Rod and I sprawl across a wooden park bench, celebrating our eleventh consecutive defeat. The night’s a filmy grey, riddled with spots of grainy white, and we stare into its musty depths, uncomprehending and content. We’re done with searching, finished with trying. The air swims with day-old piz...