Stories Teens Love

The nature of writing, and the nature of being young. When I think of young people writing, I return often to the movie “The...

Hollowness fills. Absence exudes a prominent presence. How is it possible to feel so alone when you are told you are loved? The ear listens, but the heart does not feel. The body stands, but the mind rather be elsewhere. Expectations are a crime; a system of ties collapsing on each other. Standards are a given; they exist subconsciously. They are not the same. Love can exist without nourishment like happiness without success. Suddenly the grass seems grey. A simple fact of ex

Hi, Buddha. Recently, I’ve been trying to be a good person, and I have taken almost every step to make my life a fulfilling one: I have attempted to approach life with compassion to abet the lives of others in hopes of finding benefits for myself. Today, I ask you to provide me with a meal of prosperity to help me with the upcoming challenges I am to face. I will take the next few minutes to reflect.  …  Today, I did not want to eat the fried chicken Dad brought home. Dad loo

When we think of dialogue, the first thing that comes to mind is most likely a form of verbal communication. Two or more people talking to one another, engaging in conversation. In other words, external dialogue. However, there is another type of dialogue that is often overlooked. Like introverted listeners getting overshadowed by extroverted speakers in our daily lives, internal dialogue is often lost to its loud counterpart: external dialogue. The truth is that you need bot

The juxtaposition of characters in this story is what I found interesting here, on a first read. A generational conflict, for one: here is a man acting like a boy, and a boy trying to act like a man. The internal conflict within Sturgeon juxtaposed with the conflicts he undergoes throughout the narrative with his father. The starkness of these two moral battlefronts that the men find themselves on. Against the backdrop of the Million Man March- a gathering for Black men to pr