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 […]
by Aidan Lerner ’22 “There’s poison in your glass.” You want a glass of water. You go get a glass, right? You go to the cabinet and you select a glass. Then, you inspect it carefully. You are looking for poison. You may ask yourself why you are doing that. Well, because your thoughts […]
by Mariela Flores ’23 It’s as if someone cut you out of a magazine and glued you under my eyes. You are the accessory that I have been given, even in my well-rested times. I’ll always know when I’m tired but I won’t ever need an eyeshadow base, and even if I don’t like […]
by Kate Ward ’23 The painting had been sitting across from the Greek statue for the past 50 or so years, and she had never grown tired of looking at him. His body was strong but not in the ways women liked now; he was strong like a field hand or someone with a […]