Lucy is a senior entering her first year writing for The Central Trend. She has been entertained and positively in love with writing and reading for as long as she can remember and cannot wait to expand and improve her writing further. Lucy runs varsity track for her school and has been involved with club track over the years as well. As senior year starts and concludes all too quickly, Lucy strives to create millions of memories, all comprised of her favorite things: friends, sunshine, running, and her adorable puppy, Jackie.
First of all, above anything, it is still a city of dreamers.
Many old American towns have relinquished their yearning crowns, that faint spark that promised to preserve, treasure, and cherish the ambitions...
Senior Parker Ludwig has had difficulties in the past with driving in the winter.
The event went something like this: the neighborhood roads were slightly slick with ice, and his car turned too quickly...
I What a Dog by Kevin Yoder
~ Bursley School ~ 1978
~ Mrs. McKellar ~ 1st Grade
“I’d like a dog,” said Tim.
“No,” said mom.
Dad came home.
“What’s wrong Tim?”
“I what a...
My family- the best team
I love every moment and gathering together. Our Fourth of July trips, getting absolutely demolished while tubing, playing left-right-center with our baby Jesus—all of...
Ever since the 2022 World Cup, I have become a passionate soccer fan.
Once I started to understand the gravity behind the sport and the sense of unity that soccer provided for fans, players, and teams,...
Junior Chloe Flowers-Stiles establishes a happy lifestyle by simply doing what she loves most: eating food.
Apart from indulging in her typical three meals a day, Chloe also explores her cultivated...
The object is a once-shattered scrap of white ceramic adorned with bulbous flower decals. A fluffy pink pom-pom is smushed between the bird’s tapered face and the rest of its broken body: a filler for...
My dad has recounted his experience in Guadalajara, Mexico, countless times.
As a part of the study abroad program at Grand Valley State University, he flocked to the heart of Jalisco for an entire...
Senior year is a year of finalities.
It is a year of decisions, an era of scattered jubilation and strain, and, most importantly, it is an age of bittersweet memories.
Capturing the essence of...
I was hunched in the corner of the girl’s locker room, tears flowing freely down my face as I sobbed into my phone.
I should have been outside on the track, warming up before one...
Reading slump is real.
Arguably, it is one of the most hopeless feelings in the creative world, contending only with the devastating spell of writer’s block. Writer’s block is controllable, something...
My friends say that I spontaneously combust.
Spontaneous combustion is when a piece of organic matter—damp hay, coal, lawn clippings—bursts into flames with no apparent cause. It's instant combustion....
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