“Above the Clouds,” by Juniper Franks, 14, of Fairfield 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 youngwriterspro ject.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 [email protected]; (802) 324-9538. The brave Marga Camarinta, 15, Manchester Center I am 4, and a self-proclaimed  hero of bravery. The plane whirs in my ears, loud and incessant and monstrous, but I sit as calmly as I can. Solemn and stoic is this sugar-stuffed knight. In this dark, blue light, in this hollow, titanium titan, I am illuminated by wonder. Questions… questions about a foreign land, one shrouded in mystery, with unfamiliar faces. Like a faraway fantasy, but tangible to the tips of my small, sticky fingers. The United States of America: the land of the free, and apparently,  the home of the brave. Yet so unlike the home I am accustomed to, and so far away from the ones I love. But just as this hero feels herself falter and fall into the mouth of the monster that is her fears, she is swept up by a warm, wooly embrace, rescued by her own hero of bravery: her dazzling, fearless Mom. Read the story on VTDigger here: Young Writers Project: ‘The Brave’. ...read more read less