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They clung onto her body and wouldn’t let go. They tore her down except she had already given up struggling.

TOP CREATIVE WORK OF THE MONTH: Travel stories: Exploring Korea, one delicious piece of fried food at a time.

FIRST PLACE CONTEST WINNER: Lise Meitner observed a tremendous, double-edged energy source capable of destroying the planet, while boosting the development of human industry.

An underrated 20th-century hero, Vasili Arkhipov harnessed brave determination to save the world from the Cuban Missile Crisis.

SECOND PLACE CONTEST WINNER: Hedy Lamarr has helped the world in battle, and was one of the key contributors for the human race to become an online, interconnected society.

SECOND PLACE CONTEST WINNER: A leader of the civil rights movement, Bayard Rustin organized the march on Washington, changing America forever. Why did he disappear from the history books?

FIRST PLACE CONTEST WINNER: The power of an unsung hero who steers with endless purpose and passion.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, one of the greatest astronomers of all time, and an unsung hero.

Elon Musk, a rogue rocket, and the future of the Earth: a new episode of The Twilight Zone.

We saw a gigantic black wolf slowly walking out of the path. When it stepped on the sand on the beach, the shadows around it smoothly faded into the sunset, and I did not want to imagine who was behind the dark shadow.

The sky is not quite blue today. No, today it is frosted gray: hints of a pale, pale blue slipping through the glassy, cold sky. It makes me want to fly, fall back into the clouds and never-ending gray. Instead, I am here, sitting at the old coffee shop, my fingers numb and my face frozen.