This is the last one. I can’t find original words to describe this experience.  Nor can I find original words to describe my inability to describe this experience. Both experiences remain un-unique...

Chemistry teachers David VonEhr and Russell Chudy are proud survivors of the Swine Flu epidemic. They endured a time when the halls were emptier than they are now without the seniors. It was a time...

I met a little weed on the side of the road yesterday.  I was walking home from the bus stop, and there it stood like a lighthouse in the immaculate sea of green on my neighbor’s lawn. A rebellious...

For some inexplicable reason, the music of our friendship is a bland monotone bleeding of silence to the surrounding, ever-crescendoing crash of sounds. We sit upon the bare afternoon as the hours roll...

With the seniors gone, freshman Frey Wu is missing a key part of his usual AP Physics C: Mechanics class: his friend senior Sammy Yin, who is his pillow. “I very much miss the seniors,” Frey said....

Could I not merely drink up the sky as it burns into a dusty amber? A sure luminous expanse remains. Nothing to be seen beyond all that I have taken. Perhaps I had consumed far more than the stability...

One of the first stories that senior Lauren Brace wrote featured the adventure of a block of cheese. From there, her love for writing—and words in general—grew.  Currently, senior Lauren Brace...

It was the laziest Nothing I had ever seen. It had sat at its wood stool so long that the poor thing wilted under the grand weight of the Nothing’s sedentary resolve. It shriveled before my eyes—its...

A bridge that I stood on for several moments before deciding to venture on

The sun only sings for a few. She'll whisper gently in their ears, and even the most vacant hearts will warm. For them, bliss cascades upon them faster than the rain, and childish abandon quickstarts...

I am detached, in the in-between. Floating so ever carelessly. I have no tangible obligations, for there isn’t anything tangible in this vastness space of the in-between, full of everything and nothing....

After seeing rock videos online when he was younger, junior Will Hoffmann knew he wanted to learn the guitar. Soon after, he started lessons at the Academy of Music, which he did for four years, starting...

From voice recognition to self-driving cars to chatbots, artificial intelligence has grown at an exponential rate. And now, the concern is that it’s overstepping in the field of art, too. Many point...

There’s a new moon coming, and she’s terrified of its light. She wants to stay in the shadows, the warmth of the night. It’s soft and calming, tired yet endearing. Its lethargic sways, steady and...

My 10-year-old cousin is very talkative, and she loves singing and acting. She’s a very happy kid, and she’s very young. A couple of weeks ago, at the middle school she will go to next year, a student...

In senior Jenan Hammad’s mixed media art, there’s a scene depicting her and her friends, some crafted traditionally and some printed from digital drawings, signifying their now-online relationship. It’s...

She is the glimpse of apricity, the awakening into a world alight with every bliss imaginable. She chases each shimmering notion through the fields. Her little braided pigtails rebelliously stray into...

Senior John Horky watched a two-hour video on the ranking of Disney movies, fascinated by the analysis. In the video, the YouTuber broke down the aspects of the characters, delving into the details...

After enjoying a few sips of my strawberry banana smoothie, all I could taste was the unpleasant flakey paper of the straw. It had not only bent but had also folded in on itself, blocking any drink...

Across four ceiling tiles, seniors Grant Griffioen, Julian Hayes, Liam Manders, and Michael Boughton painted a guy holding a massive orange, peeling it, and looking pleased as if ready to eat it.  Michael...

Time didn’t listen to me.  Despite all that it had seen, it watched my plans fall to ruin. The magnificent towers of happenings that I wanted to live in. Scattered to dust, my hopes are hushed...

I am but a pawn floating in a checkered pool. The night taunts me, and I can’t castle to safety.  For, there it lurks, just beneath me, a menace with daring teeth and sickly eyes. It follows me,...

Since I don’t yet have a driver’s license, my ears are subject to the music of the friends who give me rides. For two of my chauffeurs, that music is K-pop. To my surprise, one of the songs they played...

Right now, there are three phones torn apart on sophomore Kareem Avdic’s desk at home. Because his family has contracts to transfer to the newest iPhone release, Kareem has accumulated a collection...

Gray thoughts are the nastiest wardens. It’s too easy to cower from them and crawl away in humiliation. My sentence seems unending, elongated by the minute. I gloom on and on until my release is made,...

I’ve heard all the glamor: Apple phones run faster, have better cameras, and are simply better quality. Yes, some of these statements may hold some extent of veracity. However, Apple phones have one...

Freshman James Walker’s favorite chess piece is the knight. Its unique L-shaped movement allows it to jump over other pieces and pin attacks on multiple other pieces at the same time. He even finds this...

For one whole summer in middle school, all I listened to was The Click. It was the only AJR album available on Amazon Music for non-premium users, and I loved it.  My passionate admiration for the...

It’s December.  It’s time for family get-togethers. It’s time for hot chocolate and snow gear. But mostly, it’s time for Christmas, and with that comes the movies. Fatman is yet another...

At Goodwillie Environmental School, freshman Ryan Brom found more to the curriculum than simply nature. During 5th and 6th grade, Ryan and his classmates would craft paintings each time they learned...

I am a collector, not a hoarder. I have an abundance of unnecessary items brimmed with sentimental value. No, it's not stamps or Pokémon or baseball cards. It is not something one would typically...

Amidst a pandemic that makes filming difficult, finding a new movie to review—or even simply watch—on Prime Video is a near-impossible task, but after much persistence, I hit the jackpot. Black Box,...

By third hour, sophomore Katelyn Romijn needs a break. Luckily, within her busy schedule, she finds one: yoga. Katie was first introduced to yoga through the school’s class, which she started this...

Ellory, Ashley, and Lucy - for being such supportive mangoes It seems like just yesterday we were in Mrs. Hall’s class gluing googly eyes onto Jefferson and taking over the room with Weville and over...

Of all the many science fiction novels I’ve read, themes of advanced technology, mazes, robots, dystopian societies, virtual or real-life games, and diseases have emerged quite frequently. They repeat...

Sophomore Lucy McLean found herself precariously dangling from a halted chair lift. She and her family were on a ski trip in Colorado, but it didn’t quite go as planned. “We were going up the hill,...

I have a chain that rattles in my pocket. With every step, it is a reminder that slaps against my leg inside the pocket of my jeans. I cannot forget why I am taking that step. The keys help serve that...