The Memory Manager

by VICTORIA WOO

Imagine a slim, tall woman with her hair slicked back and her navy blue pencil skirt perfectly hugging her legs. When she walks, her 3-inch heels clack and echo, and her very presence radiates like an ember. This, my friends, is the memory manager.

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Three Ways to Preserve Flowers

by CHELSEA GUO

She liked to save objects: The marbles in her kindergarten teacher’s shelf of games. The pretty napkins her classmates’ fathers lovingly packed into lunch boxes. The flowers in her foster mom's garden.

Especially the flowers.

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Family Tree

by SOPHIA DU

In the dawn of the fall season, my family and I set our offspring free to nestle in the dirt. Our seeds slept in pine cones; the heat of a fire would allow the cones to dry out, open up, and release the seeds.

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