Reflective

Static

By Carolyn Zheng

This is a zuihitsu that reflects how overwhelming life is and uses the different meanings of the word “static.”

Unspoken Things

By Olivia Beaton and Yao Liu

“Unspoken Things” is about being in a gray area with someone and not knowing where you stand with them.

“Did you hear her Spanish?”

By Izabell Mendez

A short story about my relationship with language and Puerto Rican identity.

Una breve historia sobre mi relación con el lenguaje y mi identidad Puertorriqueña. Izabell estaba muy emocionada de tener la oportunidad de trabajar con Fellow de Girls Write Now, Sally Familia, en la traducción de su historia del Inglés al Español.

getting older

By Julia Wysokinska

Maybe our photos will fill the gaps my memory won’t.

Check

By Anne Christelle Chery

This poem is about my complicated, love-hate relationship with worry.

to my past and present

By Demarie Hao

To myself, who could never find the words about me.
To my dad, who made me doubt myself; thank you for trying.

Love’s Sacrifice

By Jana Elsayed

Most people know their boundaries when it comes to love. I’m still trying to figure out mine.

Nostalgic Smells

By Jasmine Ilyas

My grandmother was diagnosed with dementia in 2020, I remember her through memories we shared years ago, and I wrote about these memories, by continuing to remember her as she would want me to.

Mom Pants

By Maryam Oguntola

I have always been perceived to be younger than I actually was; at first, I was not too fond of it, but it eventually grew on me.

A New World

By Nishat Raihana

This is the story of a young girl, uprooted from her familiar, comfortable home in New York City and placed in what was to her an unbearable new world.

I Once Thought I Knew Myself

By Fiona Hernandez

This piece offers a discussion on how 2020 was a year that gave me time to reflect on myself.

Kill Them with Laughter, Kill Me with Peanuts

By Jillian Daneshwar

Allergies make you vulnerable. In my case, more mentally than physically, despite the physical severity a peanut poses. The piece below takes the reader inside my mind as I fear for my life.

Oma’s Hands

By Alina Mertens-Schill

“Oma” is the German word for grandma. These two short memoirs are the beginning of a larger collection centering around my Oma and how my perception of her has changed over time.