by Connor Christuk ’21 – Creative Writing Contest Honorable Mention How important is a moment? It all depends on if it’s your last A moment among many is not much, For a moment can only be so fast. But if that moment were happy, Would it mean so much more? Do we exist to be […]
by Emma McLaughlin ’20 – Creative Writing Contest Winner Your stare menaces from across the bed as I strain, choking on my words, to answer your questions. In my silence, you make me feel disbanded, shapeless without a label. Some construction of letters, he/she/they, for others to define me, ‘correctly’ discuss me. I grip the bedsheets […]
by Nicole Patano ’22 – I’m an advocate of nonviolence, so I don’t want to keep beating the dead horse. Because the more we hear, the less we feel, the same we act. And we forget to react and retract. It’s a fact that our actions speak louder than our words. The silence is deafening. If […]
by Sam Ward ’21 How do we propel ourselves into the unknown? Without fear. Without doubt. How, without shaking in our skin at the thought of what could go wrong, or plucking heartstrings to play hopeful songs? How do we plunge into strange waters, when the thoughts are white noise? How do we pursue ambition’s […]
by Elizabeth McGinn ’21 Flashes whirling past, face pressed against the glass, eyes adjust to a moving landscape from a train. A glimpse at strange moments as we pass, waving adieu to the lonely buildings that remain. Littered with flecks of dust and drops of rain, the plexiglass portal offers rare sights to me, the […]
by Sarah Heavren ’21 It’s always darkest Before the dawn Darkness is still there Before it’s gone. There’s always the hope Of a new day. But there’s still the wait While the night fades. Good things are to come. There’s still the fight To get to the day, Escape the night. Darkness has become Like […]
by Grace O’Connor ’22 She looked in the mirror and took a deep breath Today was the day her life would change She looked down at her newly polished nails as her heart drummed in her chest Time was going by painfully slow but too fast She stood up slowly and walked down the stairs […]
by Sarah Heavren ’21 I remember, Thinking of days gone by, That this started With the blink of an eye. Before I was ready, Somehow I knew By some way at some time I’d be with you. You were the first to listen And the first to enjoy The witty and clever Humor that […]
by Sean Tobin ’20 Here, November, warmth retires— Rush to start the Winter fires! Yet the Sun has not retreated And left him for whom It’s needed Without the glow which inspires. And on the dead for which It’s whitest; Yes, brighter, nay, the brightest; Now on them shall It remain, Now, on them, who […]
Does Fear Disappear? By Sean Tobin ’20 Does fear disappear If Stephen King writes it down And Hitchcock films it? Or does fear instead Creep, crawl, and hide deeper down Where you cannot reach? The Wind Sarah Heavren ’21 The wind whips and wails Shaking the walls Rattling the trees Making leaves fall. It […]