Donna Tartt’s The Secret History (1992) is a gripping novel that explores the lives of a group of elite college students who become entangled in a web of secrets, deception, and murder. The story is narrated by Richard Papen, a young man from a humble background who is fascinated by the idea of studying at […]
Most people you talk to will probably tell you that radio is a dead medium. However, Providence College students would tell you otherwise. The school’s radio station, WDOM 91.3 FM, has been steadily gaining a reputation as a club to be a part of. This year, the club hit a milestone: every single time slot […]
‘“She wanted to warm herself,’ the people said. No one imagined what beautiful things she had seen, and how happily she had gone…” —Hans Christian Andersen On a cold winter’s evening, the last of the year, she finds herself wandering about the city barefoot, penniless. Only a handful of matches to sell. No one […]
“So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.” (Paradise Lost, Book IX, Lines 780-785) I’m blamed for the demise of my sex: the sex […]
Heat screams with no place to hide, Spewing, steaming, pushing, stewing— Stirring beneath stretching ceiling tiles, I listen because I am willing, Whining through ear holes Like exhalation, smoke travels thoughts linger fogging. I used to tell her I would be unbreakable when I got older. And I’ll never again comprehend what the hell that […]
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It is as if water and leaves were muddling at the storm drain, And I have come to realize That everything is not enough. Even here it is all both having and wanting, And it is as if each bow drawn across the strings were sawing across the heart, Making a new course through which […]
There exists a place unseen from normal eyes. A place not known to those who don’t already know it. A place filled with wonder and excitement, monsters and adventure. This place is known as the other side. No one knows how it came to be nor why its laws are what they are, but what […]
This morning I took a stroll on the beach With my Papa. It was around 8 A.M., And the sun and the waves Had finally fallen into a perfect harmony. The air was still, amid the sounds of waves crashing, And everything was settling into place before The chaos of the day. We walked for […]
The one thing everyone says you need to do when visiting Atlanta is go to the Georgia Aquarium. When it first opened in 2005, it was the biggest aquarium in the world. Years later, it is the third largest in the world, and the largest in the United States. It contains 11 million gallons of […]