Dear Tiff and Earl, It’s me again. My COVID-19 lover and I don’t know what to wear for Halloween—we want a good couple’s costume idea. Thoughts? Sincerely, Caught Feelings (and COVID) Dear Heartswab, Darling, I am positively bursting with couples costume ideas. Two halves of a Kit Kat. Dean Sears and his lollipop. Beef and […]
by Toni Rendon ’24 1946 “AGH, WHAT’S HAPPENING TO ME?” Helen’s howls bounced off the walls of Packard Manor, causing Howard, the head of staff, to rush to the master bedroom in concern. What happened next could only be described as unearthly. Helen, the mistress of the house, was laying on her back in bed […]
Photo courtesy of pixabay.com by Kate Ward ’23 It was another October; she had lost track of how many Octobers had come and gone. Her friends and her lovers came and went with it. Victoria was tired. Not just tired—exhausted, drained, defeated. She had been experimenting for years on how to turn her […]
Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood’s Chilling Dystopian Vision Tully Mahoney ’23 Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is a chilling exposé of a dystopian reality in which an extreme regime overtakes the US government and creates an ultra-patriarchal, religious state known as the Republic of Gilead. The novel is told from the point of […]
I dipped my spoon into the Jell-O in front of me and lifted it to my mouth. I had never seen white Jell-O with little red spider veins before, and it was unexpectedly chewy. Kate Ward ’23 Laughter can be such a pleasant noise. That is, unless you live alone and hear it all […]
Worst Candy to Get in Your Trick-or-Treat Basket Milk Duds Candy corn with the chocolate on the bottom Granola bars Apples Green Kit Kats Black licorice Toothpaste 100 Grand bars Laffy Taffy Dots Anything grape flavored (tastes like cough medicine) Bit-O-Honey Circus peanuts PayDays Lemonheads Hard grandma candies Scorpion candy Tootsie Rolls (especially the fruit-flavored […]
by Sarah McLaughlin ’23 It all started with one simple question: Should you eat mac and cheese with a fork or with a spoon? “A spoon, obviously,” Genevieve says. “It provides the utility for maximum scoopage.” Britney rolls her eyes. “A fork can scoop, too, idiot. And you can stab the noodles. It gives […]
by Max Gilman ’25 What came first, The rope, Or the knot, The knife, Or the cut, The murder, Or the disdain? Nonetheless, One leads to the other, In an endless cycle of circling disparity. Before all these, though, Came the child, With a free mind, To fill with ideas. There he was, […]
Ways to de-stress during Midterms Count your ceiling tiles Count the squares in the wall Talk to your cinderblocks Take a walk down Chad Brown Smell markers Go Halloween decoration shopping and get scared by some of the ones in Target that jump out at you Start manifesting Start knitting Sleep on top of your […]
by Taylor Maguire ’24 The walls of the wooden cabin shuttered as if the ghost of Halloween’s past drifted through it. Everyone else inhibiting the lodge fell into a deep hushed tone out of fear that any loudly exchanged words would cause us all to be consumed by snow. The wall by the kitchen […]