Almost There

By Anastasia Kolesnikova ’18

They told her she could rule her life. So she walked roads she wanted to walk in clothes she wanted to wear, but they kept on building barricades on the streets of her city. Yet everyone was "very surprised" to find her corpse two blocks away from the town gates.

The Next in Line

By Jessica Landa ’18

"Was it everything you ever wanted?" wide-eyed.
"No," matter-of-factly.
"Will you go again?" in dismay.
He turned.
"Listen: when you come back from that--" finger pointed, "you'll know why I won't answer. It's rocky. The others are rude. Nothing makes sense until you've just about finished. Are you prepared?"
"Fine."

Is That A?

By Jessica Landa ’18

"A dragon."
"I'm going insane. That's not a-"
"Draaggon."
"Is it-?"
"He."
"-he yours?"
"I don't own him."
"I think he hates me."
"Not true." A snarl. "Maybe."
"..."
"What?"
"Does he breathe fire?"
"Pretty sure it's oxygen."
"..."
Do you want to come with us?"
"Where?"
"Vet. He needs his shots."

A Conversation between James Daniel and his Son

By Alex Secilmis ’19

“I fought with my father all the time. He owned a thriving brewery in Tennessee, and was always drunk, there was neither a grain nor a drop of kindness in that cruel man.”

“Did you not like your dad at all?” the man’s son asked.

“No Jack, not one bit.”

The Girl and the Sun

By Laura Tepedino ’20

It rained for years. One morning, the sun shined through her window. It was finally warm. But the light was too strong and too kind and she was too small and too blind.

So she ran away.

The sun shined somewhere else, never as bright. And she missed him everyday.