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Young Writers Project: My First Car

Jessica Austin, a junior at Essex High School, says of her writing: “I write all the time, forming little half-stories or even just one-liners in my head. Usually they don’t make it to paper. With this piece, I had just driven my little standard transmission Honda Civic successfully for the first time, so I got on the computer and let my inner monologue run. I guess good things come to those who write.”
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We Sit in the Middle of a Soul Pond

This poem is based on a the meshing of a few memories, mostly regarding love and the peculiar places I’ve found myself this summer, but also of specific pinpoints of this season. I wrote this while watching fireworks at the edges of an enormous field.