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  She Has Cancer

  By Jane D., Palatine, IL

  She has cancer. It’s weird to write that down. My mother has cancer. She found out last week but couldn’t bring herself to tell my brothers and me until today. I knew it was bad news when my father called us down to our living room. I knew it was bad news when I saw the box of tissues co...
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  A Letter to my Grandmother

  By Jane D., Palatine, IL

  Dear Grandma, She has cancer. It’s weird to write that down. My mother has cancer. She found out last week, but couldn’t bring herself to tell my brothers and me until today. On Tuesday, I found out my mother has bone cancer. I knew it was bad news when my father called my brothers and me do...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Garden

  By Jane D., Palatine, IL

  This is a story I’ve never told anyone. I grew up in a very nice neighborhood, a neighborhood exploding with good old fashioned American values, and a neighborhood that valued its neighborhood watch program. My neighborhood was filled with children, and married couples, and pregnancies, and bake...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  The Nesting Dolls

  By Jane D., Palatine, IL

  She belonged to a quiet world. Encased in wooden replicas of her tiny frame, sound did not travel easily to her. Through her countless number of painted exoskeletons she could hear very little of the world. She had once been a tree, standing tall in a forest in a place she could not name. She was ...