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Grain of Rice

by STEPHANIE VON BULOW - January 12, 2021 It seems as if I am a grain of rice. Such a simple little thing. Dropped. Forgotten. One day to...

Laws of the Forest and Other Endeavors

by GABE MINICHIELLO - January 12, 2020 - A fictional story of the effects of the logging industry on animals. It was in a cool April...

The Emancipation of our Imagination

by GABE ANDERSON - January 11, 2020 As hobbits hide and mandalorians fly, marionettes disguise, and the tattooed man cries. Science and...

The Neighborly Thing

by ANNA FISCHER - December 18, 2020 Seb trudged through the ice and the snow, nose nipped raw by the blistering winds which tore...

The Second Coming of Your New Year’s Resolution

by ANISSA WEBER - December 4, 2020 It’s the second coming of your New Year’s Resolution. This time you really don’t have a reason not to...

Grandma's House

by STEPHANIE VON BULOW - November 21, 2020 Unlike many kids, I never got to visit Grandma’s house. She lived too far away, 8,500 miles to...

swear jar.

by SYDNEY CHURCH - November 21, 2020 my family never kept a swear jar, but everytime a word was thrown in the air, an imaginary quarter...

Bleach

by STEVIE KILGORE - November 8, 2020 The first installment in the Fox Hollow Chronicles Liz McQuoid was an unintimidating woman in the...

Knife

by PAIGE KUPER - November 8, 2020 The second installment in the Fox Hollow Chronicles Johannes Brown prided himself on being a composed...

Dent

by SYDNEY CHURCH - November 8, 2020 The third installment in the Fox Hollow Chronicles Aylah Johns had lived in her quaint house, sitting...

Salt in the Air

by STEVIE KILGORE - October 15, 2020 She is but a rustling leaf gathered in an oak tree planted in the ground during a hurricane. Her...

Seclusion

by LARISSA KRAKORA - October 15, 2020 Oh, what a tranquil sea it is, this seclusion. But wait until we tell them it’s an illusion....

Sandcastle

by CECILIA ODENBAUGH - September 27, 2020 A sandcastle Built by the unsteady hands of a child Adorned with cracks and accented by falling...

The Disciple

by JOSEPH HARRIS - September 27, 2020 White wisps of clouds dot the ocean blue sky, and towering evergreens spread as far as the eye can...

Empty; Alive

by CHRISTIAN SHERRICK - September 27, 2020 With empty streets and silent stores The birds all strum their somber chords The world...

Just Memories Now

by MACKENZIE PARTAIN - September 20, 2020 The recollection of her sweet, caring voice, telling me she loves me asking me to visit again....

The Rabbit

by EMILY HAMADE - April 27, 2020 A rabbit, brown fur with a pink delicate nose, sat in the middle of a dirt road, surrounded by trees who...

Home Run

by JOSEPH WOLFE - April 27, 2020 A warm bright day in mid-July A quilt of blue across the sky What a day for baseball I thought Getting...

Bittersweet Green

by CECILIA ODENBAUGH - April 27, 2020 There was a time when I’d come home to read in the living room alone. Maybe I’d sit on the dark...

Sorting Hat of Talent

by REAGAN MOTSINGER - April 27, 2020 “What are you best at?” Nothing, he thought. There’s nothing. Try again. Think harder. Um… I’m a...