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Crazy Little Deer (Eco Hacuhvkuce)

By Candice Joy Craig Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Crazy Little Deer (Eco Hacuhvkuce)

Crazy Little Deer went to the Muscogee fairgrounds with his friends and family. He wanted to run… jump… laugh and play stickball. He wanted to sing and dance. He wanted to eat all the blue dumplings and sweet corn drink. …

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The Drum

By Kamella Bird-Romero Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
The Drum
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/502602

Tambeh-sedo craves to be heard. Drums live off the tediously ground prayers that are cornmeal. They should soak in fresh air and sunlight daily, given the chance to absorb the happenings of the world. That is how they feed their …

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Does It Hurt?

By Brandon Scott Bombardier Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2022, Writing Contest Winners
Does It Hurt?

When I was a kid, I thought that losing your toes was a natural part of aging, like losing baby teeth. Every summer I stayed with my Grandmother Mary in Oklahoma, I would see her missing toes, healed, smooth, and …

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The Rise of Persistence

By Amanda Crosby Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, Student 2022
The Rise of Persistence

In the earliest of times when the lands stayed shaded in the black of night, there lived a rare species of bird with feathers the color of the brightest fires. This was a bird with many wonderous qualities, some of …

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Turkey Buzzard

By Edwin Dale Harris Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, Student 2022, Writing Contest Honorable Mentions
Turkey Buzzard

I am going to tell you a story, a story told to me by my grandfather. I am Dineh, the people of the Southwestern United States. I was told about the animals and their roles or how they became the …

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You Scream, I Scream

By Tashina Emery Posted on August 29, 2022 Posted in Fiction, Student 2022
You Scream, I Scream

I zoomed in on the phone screen, the app’s map clear as day said, “Frostie Freeze.” Eric’s tiny character, his bitmoji, was his exact match, a virtual representation of self. Every snap chatter had one, and we spent way too …

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The Earth and Wind

By Rebel James Denny Posted on February 19, 2022 Posted in Fiction

“Wind wanted the Sky all to herself and would go to any lengths to make it so…”

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Scattered Threads on Dancing Winds

By Brianna G. Reed Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Scattered Threads on Dancing Winds

In the few months before cancer took hold of my grandmother, she’d flown down the coast from New York to visit us for one last Virginia summer together. I was about ten at the time and old enough to know …

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Lessons in Motion

By Craig Poitra Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Lessons in Motion
Untitled by Courtney Grammentz of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College

The sound of the stream flowing behind him was comforting. The water always represented both a means of refuge and a means of transportation, so he always found himself relaxing along the shores and banks during his journeys. Things were …

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Walking Through Ice Alaska

By Brittany Lea Hebert Posted on August 21, 2021 Posted in Fiction, In Print, Student 2021, Writing Contest Winners
Walking Through Ice Alaska
Refraction by Tyson Killsontop of Chief Dull Knife College

It started as soon as I left the warm cozy embrace of the cab of my white pickup truck that was parked in the crowded parking lot. The first thing I noticed was the cold—the absolute bitterness of the cold …

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