Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538.
Alive
Astrid Longstreth, 16, West Bolton
The stars are reflected in the glimmer of the headlamps’ light on the snow,
and the air is frozen – it feels like the sensation of holding your hand under water so burning-hot that it begins to feel cold,
somehow.
Nothing could be more perfect than feeling air rush in and out of your lungs, feeling alive when all is still.
I am alive.
