
Family Writing Contest Winner
By Theresa KopperJohnson County Library is pleased to announce that Theresa Kopper has won our short story contest on the theme Family with her piece "Unyielding."
Theresa lives in Olathe. By day she designs water & wastewater treatment systems. At night, she writes stories for her children and sisters. Sometimes they read them.
For the little creatures who keep us resilient
My name is Will. I am nine years old and tall for my age. Once, I ate so many mandarins I got scurvy.
My mother is an artist who works odd hours and disappears for days. Most of our exchanges happen while she looms in a doorway with one foot