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School: Dawson School

"My throat is swollen and achy. My body is telling me not to breathe. I try to stop myself. But it’s the same, it happens every time..."

Growing pains. A funny phrase. I stand at 161.5 centimeters tall. If you don’t know what those numbers mean, it means short. I haven’t experienced the growing pains that come along with the change in height most people go through. For me, the growth of a few centimeters is enough, even when my friends are a head taller than me...

Warm

Aya

Kaneko

Boulder, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"He never really showed emotion or even smiled, and he always wore the same black suit with his red tie and his white shirt..."

There is a historic mansion in Detroit on the east side of town. It's located in a city named Abandoned. The reason why this mansion is so memorable is that the entire town was deserted, except for one house with a little boy and two grandparents. The little boy's name is Brahms...

The Boy

Elijah

Chernoff

Boulder, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"Somehow her smile grew even bigger, and her eyes sparkled as the sunlight faded into the night."

I was studying, as usual, for whatever my next assignment was at school. Dragging myself through school week by week trying to avoid the virus.

2020: Rocky Roadtrip

William

H.

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"The two friends slowly entered the house. Hand in hand. Sam could feel Anna shaking with fear..."

Sam, Timmy, and Anna always did dumb stuff. They were just regular teenagers messing around and letting their curiosity take them places. They loved to get together and play games, stay out late, and go on adventures. One of their favorite games was truth or dare...

Truth Or Dare

Brandon

Day

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

12th Grade

"The moonlight slowly morphed into a glowing woman who wore a white dress that spanned the ocean breadth..."

She thought that when people died, they were gone, forever. Her mom and grammy turned into dust at the cremation center. She poured their dust into the ocean off the coast of California, the same place where they had lived for so long and died so young...

Freedom

Estasia

McGlothlin

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

12th Grade

"He never really showed emotion or even smiled, and he always wore the same black suit with his red tie and his white shirt..."

There is a historic mansion in Detroit on the east side of town. It's located in a city named Abandoned. The reason why this mansion is so memorable is that the entire town was deserted, except for one house with a little boy and two grandparents. The little boy's name is Brahms...

The Boy

Elijah

Chernoff

Boulder, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"My throat is swollen and achy. My body is telling me not to breathe. I try to stop myself. But it’s the same, it happens every time..."

Growing pains. A funny phrase. I stand at 161.5 centimeters tall. If you don’t know what those numbers mean, it means short. I haven’t experienced the growing pains that come along with the change in height most people go through. For me, the growth of a few centimeters is enough, even when my friends are a head taller than me...

Warm

Aya

Kaneko

Boulder, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"Somehow her smile grew even bigger, and her eyes sparkled as the sunlight faded into the night."

I was studying, as usual, for whatever my next assignment was at school. Dragging myself through school week by week trying to avoid the virus.

2020: Rocky Roadtrip

William

H.

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

11th Grade

"The moonlight slowly morphed into a glowing woman who wore a white dress that spanned the ocean breadth..."

She thought that when people died, they were gone, forever. Her mom and grammy turned into dust at the cremation center. She poured their dust into the ocean off the coast of California, the same place where they had lived for so long and died so young...

Freedom

Estasia

McGlothlin

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

12th Grade

"The two friends slowly entered the house. Hand in hand. Sam could feel Anna shaking with fear..."

Sam, Timmy, and Anna always did dumb stuff. They were just regular teenagers messing around and letting their curiosity take them places. They loved to get together and play games, stay out late, and go on adventures. One of their favorite games was truth or dare...

Truth Or Dare

Brandon

Day

Longmont, Colorado

Dawson School

12th Grade