Category: Portfolio

King Slayer

Toni Rendon ’24   Here I am standing on a hill  Not at the top  Just here on the hill   Made up of the bodies of the kings I’ve killed    Their blood trickles onto the ground  Barely making a sound and washing my past in red  Their crowns’ weight bowing my head  Suffocating the […]

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Wish!

Marelle Hipolito ’22 There is wet sand stuck in my wet hair.  There is wet sand stuck in my sweatshirt, and in between my toes,    but I don’t care. I’m busy looking up at the night sky with you, rooting for a shooting star.   Not many things have been going our way. Life […]

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Book Review: One Second After

Book Review: One Second After The Power of History in the Absence of Electrical Power Madison Palmieri ’22 While some apocalyptic fiction novels are set in a near, nightmarish future or one even more remote, oftentimes, the most frightening and therefore impactful works in this genre take place in the present day. William Forstchen’s One […]

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Listomania

Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert Pitbull  The Rock  Will Smith (ft. Chris Rock)  Machine Gun Kelly  Frank Sinatra (hologram version) Macklemore  Doja Cat  Kanye West (featuring Skeet) Travis Scott  Dr. Taylor Swift  Shawn Mendes (post breakup tour?) Rihanna (post hiatus tour?)  Ed Sheeren  My Chemical Romance  Big Time Rush (without Dixie D’Amelio) (sans […]

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Family Loyalty and Medical Ethics

Family Loyalty and Medical Ethics A Review of My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Tully Mahoney ’23 My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, is an all-consuming, heart-wrenching novel about Kate, a girl diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at two years old, and her sister Anna, who was born to be Kate’s organ donor. […]

John Downey '23

Tiff and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, I caught my crush and best friend making out in the broom closet at Black and White Ball this weekend. How do I emotionally recover? Insincerely,  Heartbroken :( Dear Heartbroken,  I must confess that your story, like a middle-aged man with Santa at the mall, does not sit right with me. […]

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Listomania: Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert

Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert Pitbull  The Rock  Will Smith (ft. Chris Rock)  Machine Gun Kelly  Frank Sinatra (hologram version) Macklemore  Doja Cat  Kanye West (featuring Skeet) Travis Scott  Dr. Taylor Swift  Shawn Mendes (post breakup tour?) Rihanna (post hiatus tour?)  Ed Sheeran  My Chemical Romance  Big Time Rush (without Dixie D’Amelio) (sans […]

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A World Drawn in Pencil

by Caitlin Bartley ’24 I like to imagine that the world was drawn in pencil, my body an illustration on a canvas. Just think of all the things I could fix, stretch marks on my thighs erased like crooked lines on geometry homework, coffee stains on my teeth erased like dirty smudges on clean parchment. […]

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Help! It’s My Eye! It’s Gone!

by Max Gilman ’25 How do you fix a broken eye? There must be some way to mend the deteriorating oculi, In the time we live, there must be a way. There must be a way to fix my broken eye. Without an eye, it’s easy to spite and spit with no direction. With an […]

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Songs the Lonely Sing

by Madison Palmieri ’22 They are the ruffled wings of a little bird in flight, The muffled songs the lonely sing as day turns to night. The gentle tides ebb and, in turn, flow, The crashing of the waves, with which their secrets go. They are the aches and pains, The jealousies and vanities, They […]

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