Category: Portfolio

Tough Decisions

Trigger Warning: This poem includes references to sexual assault and rape. by Anna Pomeroy ’23 Since the moment our voices make that tremendous cry, we’ve been thrown onto a path. The doctor’s palms whisk us away into the comforting arms of a mother, a mother given to us merely by fate. Born into a family […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Tiff and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, What is this “darty” everyone keeps talking about? I can’t find it on Urban Dictionary. Is it some obscure class? A fun hat? A spelling mistake? A party where darts are thrown? Sincerely, I Was Homeschooled   Dear Homie, Your innocence is refreshing during these beer-saturated times. I’m not sure whether […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Pinocchio Wisdom

by Sam Ward ’21 Doubt clears the brain, let the stains come, And let the words fabricate themselves. The slippery slope between hope and certainty, Muddled by the inbetween. We get a glimpse of a panoramic view, What you see says more about the flaws in you Then it does about reality, Strength to those […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Roots

by Mariela Flores ’23 I want to grow and for that I will need sunlight.        But I do not know Kinich Ahau, Mayan god of sun.      I do not know the gold hidden in the skin of my ancestors,      I do not know what it is like to feel […]

Elizabeth McGinn

always yours

by Marelle Hipolito ’22 i hate the way the rush came all at once and you felt like air when i couldn’t breathe i hate the way i feel so loved when you look at me i hate the way you make all my worries and anxieties go away i hate that i’ve revolved around […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Hands

by Kate Ward ’23 You can tell a lot by the way people hold hands A loose grip, white knuckled, palms touching Life line Heart line Head line The line of fates running along a pair of palms connecting two people Yet everyone finds their differences and intimacies in something so simple as hand-holding A […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Listomania: Petition for a New Mascot

The koi fish The Flame Paul Rudd  Dean Sears A White Claw A pong ball A positive COVID-19 test An image of Dean Sears’s email The green check mark A white square Jesus Adidas slides Lululemon leggings A missing AirPods case A singular AirPod A missing PC ID Dot and Fran, but as one person

Elizabeth McGinn

Sniff Anything

by Fiona ’23 The next time someone asks me what I do for fun, I’m going to say that I keep an olfactory scrapbook. My hope is to put an end to that line of questioning right then and there, and slink away in a cloud of enigma, but in the event that my dogged […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Scrape

by Ellie Forster ’24 I haven’t had a scrape in a bit Haven’t fallen to the pavement and torn my knee Or slid my elbow across the driveway I haven’t had a scrape in some time Felt the burn of the sun on a cut Or the sting of it being cleaned I haven’t had […]

Elizabeth McGinn

Former Associate Editor-in-Chief Katie Torok ’20

The Intersection of Storytelling, Publishing, and Sales by Sara Conway ’21 A&E Co-Editor “I’ve loved stories my entire life.” Katie Torok ’20 sits in a comfortable armchair, books on floating shelves peeking into the video frame behind her. Regardless of the medium or format of these stories, part of that love came from being an […]

Sara Conway