Read the winning piece of our 2025 Nonfiction Contest “Through the Mirror” by Jessie Cato selected by Lucy Ives.

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Fall 2010 |

I Take Back the Sponge Cake

Page 15

SEES: does see

SEIZE: to lay hands on

She ________________ herself in the mirror.

If you choose sees, go to page 33.

If you choose seize, go to page 35.

GLUMMY

Envelopes

are something to remember by.

I see you behind the plastic window,

not nearly breathless yet.

Lean in real

close to my

share of

this lick.

Go back to page 7.

Go back to title page.