n 2021, the Taliban returned to power In Afghanistan. School doors closed for girls Above grade 6. Dreams frozen. Afghan girls told to step away, That shaped their way. I was just a 12-year-old girl. I was just in Grade 8. Not my Dreams, but Millions of dreams and futures stolen, From girls in...

S torage windows painted blue, to keep the sunlight from ruining the food stored there E xtra occupants like Fritz Pfeffer and the Van pels family C ollect more ration coupons, to store for later R ooms for sleeping are shared, not enough for individual bedrooms E xtra helpers, four in total, they helped supply the Secret Annex T wo times as many expected people, the Frank family, Fritz Pfeffer & Van pels family A nne Frank’s diary, well, her writing of course N o running water during the...

The day after you said goodbye
 to life,
 the sun rose, spreading across your open blinds,
 waiting to see the brightness
 that once came from you. But all it found
 was empty space,
 an unmade bed,
 all your little trinkets in their place,
 all the things that made you, you. Yet there was a looming sadness. Confused, the sun searched for you… throughout your house, only finding your mom, pale and blue,
 and your dad
 reading and rereading over and over again a letter
signed: “Sorry I...