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Challenge of the Month XVI: July

World Stage. You have the entire world's attention and can say no more than 1,500 words. What say you? Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.

Ended July 31, 2020 • 247 Entries • Created by Prose

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Challenge of the Month XVI: July

Nanda2007

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Do Not Reopen Schools This Fall

There’s a reason we are called “marginalized”.

We are not the words, we are not the lines, we ain’t even the goddam footnotes.

We are pushed aside to the outskirts of the page so that the story can continue without our pesky needs being met or addressed.

Black, brown, southeast Asian, low income, lgbtq+, immigrant and undocumented students: We are fed up with our school systems not taking our needs and our safety seriously.

We are fed up with having to demand for things because we know that simply asking will get us nowhere.

And we are fed up with being seen as dollar signs on one hand and statistics on the other.

The educational system has never chosen to side with the narrative of the marginalized, and so today, we beg, we plead, we demand, that now, in this life or death situation, the story does not continue without us.

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