Poetry Collection

by Nora Claire Miller
there is a thing
inside of this thing.
a sparrow swelling
beneath my air conditioner.
brick seizure spelled out in dull light,
the construction of a chord.

Love Stories

by Rachel Berger

Ten minutes
after my first kiss,
All I want
is to stay on this train

Skipping Stones

by Ana Henry
I promised my father
(when I was twelve, on
the cusp of something
unknown to both of us)
that I would learn how.

Not Finding Words

by Rebecca Shubert

No one had ever before suspected that emotions had flavors—I mean, that you could literally taste them on your taste buds. The scientists responsible didn’t like to admit it, but the earth-shattering discovery was kind of an accident.

My Mistress First

by Olivia August
Oh God, here she comes again. She just slides in next to me with that stupid grin on her face. I can’t stand that grin. It makes me want to scream because I know what it means.

And Let There Be Sprite

by Annie Rosenthal

Life is a complicated thing. I should know. I created it.

The first person I made was a woman named Adeva. Over the years, people twisted her name to become Adam and Eve.

Senior Portfolio

by Grace McNamee
That summer, the summer I turned eight, the public pool was never off my mind. If I closed my eyes, I saw the shimmering water, heard the lifeguard’s whistle for kids’ swim, smelled the chlorine. All I needed that summer was the money to go and swim back and forth, back and forth, beside the lap lanes.

Senior Portfolio

by Katherine Mitchell

Sweet eagerly newborn, I / reached for my mother’s pearls

Motherhater

by Rachel Kim
Mother, I have learned to hate you / like the scorching sun hates upon the fertile ground.

Poetry Collection

by Ruthie Prillaman
He looked like a workman / Or maybe a beggar, hat pressed low

More Than a War Game: Why Violence on the Korean Peninsula Should Matter to Us

by Isaac Stanley-Becker

On the eve of Thanksgiving, as we were fast asleep, dreaming of turkey and pumpkin pie, North Korea fired more than 170 artillery rounds…