Welcome to the Bluefire blog! This blog publishes the creative writing of students from grades 5-12. Select blog entries are chosen for publication in our journal, Bluefire. If you are a young author interested in having your work published, please click the link below for the submission guidelines and to enter a piece. Comments must be approved, but please feel free to provide your thoughts on what you read here. Copies of the Bluefire journal are available for a contribution to the Foundation. Please visit our
11th Grade
11th Grade Jenna B. She screams, sobs, shatters. All he can do is stand there. She asks him what he was thinking, how he could do this to her, to their family. She tells him that he should've at least Read More ...
11th Grade
11th Grade Grand Prize Elena D.B. I peel back the left corner of the linen tablecloth and peer at the cheap wooden table, scratched and worn, hidden underneath. I am happy, at least, to be in public. Sometimes when I Read More ...
12th Grade
12th Grade Sara A. It was 1:37 AM and contrary to what she had called down the stairs to her mother approximately four hours prior, Francesca was not asleep. She hadn't meant to stay up so late, but the rabbit Read More ...
9th Grade
9th Grade Grade Winner Pranav M. 2:00 Death is knocking from the trapdoor above us. My skin gags at the taste of sweat and grime. Twelve feeble bodies, pressed tightly in the darkness. Such silence hangs in the underground burrow, Read More ...
table of contents
Table of Contents for Bluefire 2017
Table of Contents for Bluefire 2017 Gone Under by Elena D.B. The Novelty Story by Sophia D.G. The Bucket List by Shelby G. Fireproof by Sol K. The Battle Knot by Pranav M. When the Trees Walked by Anushka G. Read More ...
8th Grade
8th Grade Grade Winner Anushka G One morning while I was sitting beside Grandfather on the courtyard steps, I noticed the tendril of a creeping vine trailing nearby. As we sat there in the soft sunshine of a North-Indian winter, Read More ...
12th Grade
12th grade Ashley H. I recently watched a documentary that said we all are one-third dandelions. It said some of our DNA is shared, or something, but mostly I just like the idea of weeds climbing through my veins. And Read More ...
11th Grade
11th grade Justin S-L. Alexandra stepped back from the painting she had been studying and glanced down at the description. Trapped Boy, generated by the Nova 5. Nova five, it came alive, Alexandra involuntarily recited the snippet of nursery rhymes. Read More ...
10th Grade
10th Grade Honorable Mention Hana T. There’s lipstick on the edge of her water bottle. It’s a red wound slashed on the white plane of the lip of the bottle. It’s raspberry juice spilled on cream colored marble, it’s fresh Read More ...