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“But their ships flew like eagles,” I pro- test, “and ours... ours... “ “Look like clumsy turtles?” My face burns, but the admir ...

debris, muskets blazing, but our thick hulls hold strong. In despera- tion, it rams a Korean ship. The Japanese ship splinters. ...

Once was a fiddler. Play could he Sweet as a bird in an almond tree; Fingers and strings—they seemed to be Matched, in a secret ...

THEY SAY IN the East that a crane lives a thousand years, a turtle ten thousand. Makiko’s grandfather, too, had lived a long lif ...

Someday, she thought, will I have a life like that to look back on? Grandfather had spent his younger days traveling throughout ...

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After supper her mother took her out onto the narrow balcony of their apartment, many stories above the buzzing city. An enormou ...

THE NEXT WEEK Makiko found the man with the instrument in the same place every day. As Makiko passed, he invariably raised his h ...

IT WAS A few months later, after the bustle of the funeral was over, and Makiko and her mother were going through Grandfather’s ...

WHAT DRAMA! WHAT TALENT! WAITFOR ME! WINNERS FEBRUARY 2019 POETRY CONTEST Magic Spell First prize 10 and under Katarina Antonise ...

Second prize 11 and up Annabel Zhou, age 12 Riverside, CT The Magic-Weaver The magic-weaver sits quietly In a secluded glade. St ...

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ONCE THERE WAS the son of a poor village shoemaker. What an awkward, ungainly boy he was! Yet he dreamed of being an actor, a si ...

Crazy creatures roam the earth... FIJI MERMAID Mermaids aren’t real. But there is a grain of truth behind the myth. In 1842, the ...