by Meg Pokrass Nada Gamal 1. Eleanor Rigby stands in the hallway wearing her mother’s wedding gown. Once a year, she puts it on to admire the flow. She is solitary dreamer who belongs here because she doesn’t belong anywhere else. A secret janitor perpetually sweeping up rice in a church where a wedding has been. 2. She is the most famous lonely person in Liverpool. Or maybe she never lived in Liverpool, and she is lonely while listening to the Beatles’ song. She is a late-mi

by Aimee Parkison and Meg Pokrass Isabel Galvez 1. Blue Whale Babies Weigh up to 7 Tonnes at Birth Her baby was born with hunger. Could never get enough milk. The doctors said nothing. They watched and weighed him and gawked. They took photos. “He is so hungry,” the mother said. The doctors agreed. When the baby could not stop sucking, would suckle all day and night, she cried. The baby grew as big and as a small Blue Whale. Had four chins. The only people who could bear to l