The Weight of Quiet

“Pages fanned out like a white flag. She had given up before she had started.” Layla attempts to convince her mother, Monique, about her plans for the future.

Nicole Stanton is a Journalism minor student at Columbia College Chicago. Her nonfiction piece, "The Weight of Quiet," explores the trials and tribulations of a young woman entering college and the uncertainty of her future.

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