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The Fourth by C. Adán Cabrera

The Fourth by C. Adán Cabrera

It all went down just before the Fourth of July the year I turned ten. All week long my siblings and I had been too scared to ask Mamá and Papá whether we would have as many fireworks as we did the year before.

This Is My Body by April Vázquez (Nonfiction Winner)

This Is My Body by April Vázquez (Nonfiction Winner)

During my junior year of college, I was thumbing through a women’s magazine at the dentist’s office when I came across a love quiz containing the following question: “You know you’re in love with him because…”