TickTok TickTok Tick I feel it running after me Its breath on my neck. —Jessica Polanco ’20 I can’t feel myself. No one hears me talk to them Is this death for me? —Connor Zimmerman ’20 I hear a shuffle And a chill goes down my back All I see are eyes —Sam […]
by Gabriela Baron ’20 October is the month of possibility. Our creativity develops and deepens like the crimson and cinnamon fall foliage. Each gust of crisp air propels our thoughts to the future. What do you want to be? The answer used to change every year: Dorothy, Snow White, a ladybug, Eeyore. On Halloween, I […]
by Sam Ward ’21 It’s okay. You can look away. Still fixated at the heap of feathers and blood at our feet: I’ve seen dozens of dead birds and have had perfectly splendid days. Perfectly. Splendid. Perhaps if I knew our correspondence would be, Stockholm / Lima, I would have chosen my words more carefully, […]
The Carson Killer He didn’t want to get caught. The day he was suspected the shadows scratched across the hardwood floors of 29 Carson Avenue, as though the sun were trying to drag them to the basement. Day or night the sun succeeded; a cellar filled with more dark than light said as much. That’s […]
by Sarah Kirchner ’21 The man has been following me for months now. He’s everywhere I go, and I don’t know if I should be getting more One morning, I tried to yell at him to leave me alone. I told him that I can’t fix what has happened, and he knows that. Of course […]
Discussion on Inspiration and Research for Recent Novel by: Sara Conway ’21 A&E Staff History repeats itself. R.F. Kuang and her debut novel, The Poppy War alerts a more American- and European-centric audience to the little known histories of modern China and Japan. Through The Poppy War, Kuang writes of a past that should […]
by: Brigid Walshe ’19 A&E Staff Most kids grew up watching “classic” animated Disney movies, and many of us can consider these films a huge part of our childhood. Well, Disney is now taking these classics and bringing them to life, literally (with the help of some CGI). Starting with their remake of the 1951 […]
by: William Burleigh ’19 A&E Staff In October 2017, a GQ Magazine article asked the question of “how we ended up in the ‘Golden Age of Horror Movies.’” Freshness and originality have brought on a renaissance in the genre of horror, propelled by innovative films such as Get Out, It, and, more recently, A Quiet […]
The Return of Jessica Lange, Evan Peters, and Other Show Staples by: Julia Vaccarella ’20 A&E Staff At the peak of its eighth season, FX’s anthology series American Horror Story is still running strong. The show, which aired its first episode back in 2011, takes on a different sub-theme each season with a unique time […]
How Individual Projects Can Impact the Band Dynamic by: Peter Keough ’20 A&E Staff By definition, a band is a group of individuals who come together to make music as a cohesive unit. Often, these individual members have their own personal ambitions and ideas. While many of these ideas can contribute to the group dynamic […]