When I was in the eighth grade, I wanted my yellow skin to turn white. I wished for my coarse black hair to change into long golden locks and my slanted brown eyes to turn round and blue. I yearned to become an all- American girl with freckles on her cheeks and a last name [...]
The Color of Me
by Caroline Tung Richmond
Contest Honorees, Poetry, Summer 2008
(nervous), happily
by Karen McKnight
Honorable Mention, Poetry Contest she was (young) driving safely home after work and realized (strange) that she was going (instead of East) West, and slowed the car into a parking (unused)-lot to turn around. Finding (somehow) herself on the wrong (the passenger) side of the car and starting to move back she, hearing mother’s voice, [...]
Last but Not Least
by Julie Rowse
I’VE ALWAYS DONE EVERYTHING LATER than my friends. I was the last girl in my Beehive class to wear makeup. I didn’t decide on a career until I was twenty-two. I left for my mission when I was twenty-three—nearly two years after most girls leave—and it took me nine years to finish my bachelor’s degree. And [...]