Nicholas Meadows - California State University, Monterey Bay

Let’s talk about the smell.

Zia Bella Blair - Chapman University

My best friend pointed at the Wintergreen pack of gum that had fallen from the plastic stand that held the rest of the gum. I looked at her and she raised her eyebrows expectantly.

“What?” I whispered.

Sage Hinkleman - Presbyterian College

Nobody will tell me my birth story. I’ve heard bits & pieces from grandma—mom’s water broke in her bedroom upstairs. Mom yelled for her own mother who rushed up the stairs & drove her oldest daughter to the hospital. Dad was a little bit late; I think.