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Little Star

First Place — Your earliest memory is your mother showing you the stars. She held you in her arms and pointed out constellations...

Second Place — When Icarus was little, he never got tired of trees. Leaves changed color, fell off, crunched...

Third Place — It was raining, that one fateful evening when Odysseus and his crew of men happened upon my cave in the mountains

First Place — One evening, a teenage girl was biking home on the streets of Tokyo. The sun had gone down an hour earlier

Second Place — They made their way across the ocean, concrete in the spray of the sea mist. They met their new lives as foreigners...

Third Place — “Hey, Ariana, what’s this?” James Gilbert-Kelley—Ariana Zhou’s boyfriend—asks...

Honorable Mention — i remember this time when i was a little smaller than 10, going out shopping, and getting tired as nine...

First Place — Being Asian never really bothered me, until the 2nd grade. From the crayon box, sharp and unused, I picked out a peach color

Second Place — Lydia had noticed that her bruises were shaped in the form of butterflies. When her husband beat her, they flew...

Third Place — In a town along the ocean, full of people as beaten and weary as its shore, is a girl born from the sea