San Marino Stories
This Zine will be the amalgamation of many high school students' work, using skills learned and developed during a creative writing course. We hope to encourage creativity through writing, help each other improve through repeated friendly critique, trial and error. Creative writing is different from regular academic writing since there aren't as many checks and boxes, so we're learning how to write without solid requirements.
-Naomi Chen, on behalf of the contributing teen writers
Chi Ro
by
Hannah Loose
“Everything. That was all I could think. Everything and everything and everything from here to infinity was happening and I could feel it all."
An Unsolved Case
by Adanna Azinge
Imagine a world split into two. The underground city and the main world. The underground city, a place where people grow up on average smarter than the people inhabiting the main world. The place where murderers and psychopaths linger. Would you like to live in a world like that?
My life is normal like any other 12 year old girl. I go to school, play sports, travel, and I have a mom. We lost dad to an accident a year ago. And my mom and I still haven't recovered from the depression that came with is death.
Except Me
by
Priscilla Yan
Summer Story
by
Amelia Lin and Linda Xu
I looked behind me and saw Abby and Jayden whispering about something, and I wondered if it was about me or Alex. I turned around and gave Alex a death glare. Next thing I knew, Alex started tying Jayden’s shoelace for her. The more I looked at them, the more pissed I felt. However, I decided to act like I didn’t care, so I just walked past them without saying a single word.
After Life
by
Quinn Batten
They say right before you die you see your life flash before your own very eyes, a collage of all your moments. I can say first hand, that's not true. The only thing I saw was white, and now I'm here.
Midsummer Mountain City
by Sirui Zhang
The mountain city at night in summer is extremely quiet, with only the slight sound of the Jialing River wind blowing, the whole city seems to have entered a deep sleep dream. Only one room in the building by the river is still there, and it becomes the brightest place in the mountain city at night.
The Files
by Colin Tesanart
“I now feel the weight of a thousand lives on my back. This isn’t the first time, but it is a nasty feeling to have.”
Yang and Yin
by Naomi Chen
For as long as I could remember, you had always been yang.
Almost like an inevitability, Mom’s throwaway comment that day, that together, “You girls look like yang and yin!” secured our fates. Yang and yin. It’s supposed to be yin and yang. Yin first, yang second.
Romero Kids
by Hannah Loose
Dear Mom,
I’m sorry things went so badly. That’s the only thing I can think to say right now. I’m sorry I thought you were nice and I’m sorry I expected you to be something more.
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