Category: Portfolio

Smoking is a Bourgeois Concept 

by Taylor Maguire ’24   Snow wrapped Manhattan in a thick blanket of white. Floating flakes latched onto my brown coat as I walked across the street to Fifth Avenue. The coat belonged to my Aunt Esma whose unique eye color I inherited. Walker, a ghost from my past, once described my eyes as the […]

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Llenita 

by Mariela Flores ’23 Content Warning: this piece contains content that could be triggering regarding eating disorders and body image.  She called me llenita.   Those words poked at my round belly,   her eyes threw daggers into the soft flesh of my cheeks,  her hands pinched my sides,   as if she were trying to rip off […]

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Mammoth

by Kate Ward ’23   The ice creaked and groaned, my pickaxe clanking dully against the ice. I could barely make out the animal we were meant to be digging out from the ice. The museum needed it by morning, an impossible deadline. I looked at my coworkers who were shivering and trying to coax […]

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Be Patient

by Grace O’Connor ’22   Being patient makes her head spin and her nausea take over.  Being patient makes her feel like she is locked in a small space,  With the walls closing in on her, darkness preparing to give her a suffocating hug.    Being patient leaves marks on her skin of irritation and […]

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Listomania: Most interesting stickers I’ve seen on campus

Most interesting stickers I’ve seen on campus Bo Burnham quotes Stickers from bananas  Father Shanley’s face Huxley The “Berries and Cream” guy The ones they gave out during orientation week B.O.P. stickers on people’s laptops who aren’t in B.O.P. A singular wooden spoon Apple logo stickers on MacBooks  Stickers from hometowns/states Faded involvement fair stickers  […]

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The Sims

by Toni Rendon ’24   Why can’t life be more like The Sims Where no matter what day it is, we can always win Strangers come over to celebrate your birthday And people can empathize with you on your worst days   Let’s build our home from the ground up A place where happiness can […]

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a highway is no place for a deer

by AJ Worsley ’22   happier when i’m away, i do my best to keep a distance.  all i hope for is that while i’m away you forget my existence.   if that were to happen, i’d have no reason to return,  you don’t know what you have until it’s gone, a lesson you’ve yet […]

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Tiff and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, It’s that time of the year—the squirrels are starting to gain awareness again and have begun pummelling our heads with acorns. How should we wage war against them? I think we might want to get the pigeon involved. Sincerely,  Fallen Soldier Dear Fallen Soldier, You are right to revolt. We must […]

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Golf Party: Civil War

by Aidan Lerner ’22   This past week, the Providence College senior class was torn asunder by a significant conflict centered around the bi-annual event, Golf Party. Sources confirmed that a portion of the class would have preferred to host the Eaton Street bash this past Saturday, while the other group fought to have it […]

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Timeline

by Kate Ward ’23 Halfway through my freshman year of college, we were sent home on an extended spring break because of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. Not long before we were sent home, my friends had been complaining of some sickness yet tested negative for strep and the flu. The school soon started telling […]

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