You are ten and your gender is fat.
How You Become a Girl by Lauren L. Cisneros
Category: Creative Nonfiction
She is Crying by Allya Yourish
I am trying to speak sense into a seven-year-old.
Say the Word by Annamaria Formichella
Two neighborhood girls arrive. A few years older than me, they’re here to smoke and look cool…
Greed by Tori Walters
I want the shorts, the sweatshirts, the hairbands, the half empty packets of gum…
Ghouls by Hillary Wentworth
That earthy smell, cotton starched stiff by the sun. A sheet on the line.
Three Envelopes by Carrie Mac
This guy has had his paramedic license less than a month, yet he swaggers around the station like he’s about to retire.
Clear Cut by Jen Gilman Porat
I’m not good at cutting cake. I never pick the right knife.
The Ones Who Walk Away by Erica Peterson
I’m sleeping on the blow-up mattress tonight; it’s my little brother’s turn to sleep on the uncomfortable, but still preferred, Murphy bed.
Lessons in Meditative Thinking by Laura Waldrop
When my mom takes her cancer to chemotherapy, I bring my anxiety to yoga class.
Lifesavers by Victoria Morsell Hemingson
He’s not exactly handsome, more like a rugged pair of work boots than shiny new oxfords.
