Category: Prose
Growing Pains
Sasha Olander I’m 6 feet in the air, not looking down, a smile plastered on my face. I hear the cheer music blasting clashing with my coach screaming, “You’re hitting!!! Stay up!” Suddenly, I feel my foot start to turn and my body becomes… Continue Reading “Growing Pains”
Forgotten to Remembered
Laurel Carter Laughter and joy once filled the space. It had no clue where this joy came from, why He was always laughing, or why the one that made him smile would always come dancing into the room. The beast would run around on… Continue Reading “Forgotten to Remembered”
Just Keep Scrolling, Just Keep Scrolling, Just Keep Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling: Analysis on the Possibly Declining Attention Span
Grey Davidian Working on yet another essay, you sit with your back propped comfortably in the homey nook of your chair. The screen illuminates the room with a soft white hue as the clickity clacks of your keyboard fill the otherwise unbroken silence. Finally,… Continue Reading “Just Keep Scrolling, Just Keep Scrolling, Just Keep Scrolling, Scrolling, Scrolling: Analysis on the Possibly Declining Attention Span”
A is for Academia, Acceptance, Accomplishment, ACTs, and Ambitious Addiction
Sofia Herbert The letter A is primarily known as an article in the English language, but it is also a variable in math equations, a vowel, a piano key, a blood type, and the third most likely answer choice on the 2022 SAT. Fitting… Continue Reading “A is for Academia, Acceptance, Accomplishment, ACTs, and Ambitious Addiction”
Home Away From Home
Annalise Heimel “Everyone come downstairs and sit on the couch, please. I have some big news to tell you,” my mom yelled from the small, dim-lighted kitchen. During the summer of 2017, my mom gathered my siblings and me into our big, sunny living… Continue Reading “Home Away From Home”
The Dynamic Duo
Katherine Griffin The dynamic duo. Ever since the very beginning. Gifted to me by my late grandmother, they were bright pink and blue, with fluffy wool all over them. Now they’re both gray and no longer covered in that comforting cloth. They symbolized youth,… Continue Reading “The Dynamic Duo”
Cocacolus billboardia
Sophia Hopper Just as oceans unfailingly rise every year, Coca-Cola continues its ongoing reign as the world’s largest plastic polluter, responsible for three million metric tons of plastic packaging in 2019 (Tigue). Meanwhile, Coca-Cola convinces consumers that the company cares about the environment, using… Continue Reading “Cocacolus billboardia”
The Tragedy of Aryan Stanislavski
The first step in this journey of self-discovery is for the actor to ask themselves the self-defining question, “Who are you?”
