By Gracie Phillips

Grace E. Phillips is a nineteen year old student at Hanover College. She is an editor for the student newspaper and contributing editor to the student literary magazine. This is her first publication.


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Cardinals

  When I write about my mother, my pen likes to compare her to birds without my permission. I write her voice like sparrows, high and tittering when she laughs. As an angst-ridden teen, my word of choice for her was ‘crow’, pecking away at me bit by bit. She became a character composed of…