1001 Lives

Telling peoples' unheard stories...

“Introduction"

“Do you actually think reading changes people?” Matt looked up from his phone. “What?” “Like actually changes them.” We were sitting after school, both of us not really doing anything. Matt had been scrolling for the past few minutes, and I had a book open in front of me that I had stopped reading. He looked at the cover. “You’re asking this while reading?” “That’s why I’m asking.” He laughed. “Okay. What do you mean by change?” “I don’t know. Actually change. People always s

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“Introduction"

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Chasing Beauty

Dress, Photo Credit: Allison Pan Why do people care so much about a dress? It is only cloth. It cannot speak, think, or remember. Still, people spend months searching for the right one, especially for a wedding. They want to be beautiful, of course, but perhaps they also want something more. They want to be seen in a certain way. For Cassat, this question did not first appear as a philosophical question. It appeared as a wedding dress. Cassat grew up in Utah. When she was

Ben Xin

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My Grandma's Hands

Competition Writer: Xichen Wang My Grandma's Hands, Artist: Allison Pan The first thing I see when I think of my grandma is her hands. They are not the soft, smooth hands of a young woman. They are wrinkled, dotted with faint age spots, and the skin is thin, like the pages of an old book that has been read too many times. But to me, those hands are the safest place in the world. They have held me through every storm, guided me through every uncertainty, and woven the quiet