By Lillian DeLeon   It was 3 am and I still couldn’t sleep. I’d been laying down since 9 pm, I was tossing and turning trying to get comfortable but I just couldn’t. In the blink of an eye, I automatically got goosebumps when I turned around for the thousandth time and immediately felt someone…

by Ana Gonzalez Paneque Every day I wake up and I count the birds.  The birds are my friends so it’s the least I could do. If you squint through the bars you can see their shadowy figures perched on the powerlines next to my room. Their angular faces peering in through my windows, they…

  By Aaliyah Fletcher The first day of school today, I look around and see, Everyone else’s faces, Looking back at me.   The first day of school today, I found a table just for me, I’ll keep my pencils and books as neatly as can be.   The first day of school today, I’m…