Category: Portfolio

The Dudley Curse

Dudley. Remember the name and don’t forget it. Tonight I will tell you all a tale that occurred almost exactly 40 years ago in my quaint East Coast college campus. I will not be revealing the name of the college in fear that I will be reprimanded for telling my story; for finally revealing the […]

Holli Hay ’27

Mr. Hobart

Tonight I agreed to meet a psychic with Maude, my best friend from college. She described it as a secret society for people obsessed with knowing secrets. Five people would be selected at random to go into Mr. Hobart’s Library, where he would tell you anything you wanted to know. The whole thing was a […]

Taylor Maguire '24

DEADLINES

We’re told that we have time to make these things, so stress is light, and we relax for hours. Through days and weeks, procrastination brings a struggle that we not yet know is ours. Far off those deadlines did seem for awhile, but swiftly they approached our aimless plans and soon we realize and no […]

Claire Crowther '27

Bittersweet Sea

Night descends on the chiseled shadows of a disappearing dusk, And envelopes them into a backdrop of vast darkness Still, she finds solace in nightfall’s mysterious, ethereal, essence She fixates on the glimmers of starlight watching them wink at an ever changing moon She stands at the edge of a moonlit shore Admiring the inseparable […]

Meg Brodeur '24

A Life of Collection

He shoved metal debris in his eye at ninety-seven.  Bacteria, mold curls his upper forehead like a pumping heart,  The sin man has four eyes, seven blood types; went blind at forty.  Alloy oculi and a strange syringe for an arm. The first thing he enjoyed was  bawls, the gurgling cries of animals called children, […]

Max Gilman '25

A Flash of Blonde

When I was smiling with my friends, a flash of blonde caught my eyes, Flying through the wind of the boardwalk, Weaving in and out of nameless figures with fierce determination. I hardly caught a glimpse of a face, Yet my heart began to race Mourning a lover it never had, A body it never […]

Taylor Rogers '24

Hometown eyes 

She loves the color purple and can’t wait for Halloween, because that means she’ll get to dress up as something that she will never be. The air will dance on by gifting hints of nostalgia, the kind you can’t quite explain but it makes you really miss your mama.  The changing leaves are imprinted towards […]

Holli Hay ’27

Writer’s Block

Each day when I think about what to create, to write and hopefully make something great, sometimes thoughts won’t come to the brain, and I realize my nemesis has struck again. A familiar fiend which restrains me so, impeding ideas, obstructing their flow. In my mind it continues to linger and stalk, this wretched and […]

Claire Crowther '27

BLAME

i gambled my guns away, fittingly, i get shot in the back constantly, never willing to turn the head to see who, or where or why. Ugly is the capitalization of the third eye, and people expect me to have an answer, why you or they cannot get close, i gambled my guns away like […]

Max Gilman '25

An Ode to the Soil

Tonight, I raise a glass to the one who supports me more than anyone else in my life. I’ve been supported through struggles and hunger and ills. I’ve been supported through many a strife. I’m far from alone in my burdens being borne by this familiar stranger; why, you’re all supported too! It’s the reason […]

Claire Crowther ’27