Amongst the Stars
BY JENNY CHEN The girl who gave me the universe In pale hands splattered with speckles of orange Her eyes mirrored the blue painted into the sky at 7 pm … Continue reading
The Mirror
BY ELISE BALDEMORE The mirror So prim and proper, Held the ghastly reflection Of a young girl Within its very glass. Captivating her She stared long and hard, Not able … Continue reading
Maybe I Hate Your Poetry
BY LILLY SABELLA Maybe I hate your poetry and maybe I hope you drown in your metaphors if you’d step away from your word of black microphones and spotlights dressed … Continue reading
A Little Girl Made of Mirrors
BY HALEY HIBSMAN She struts shamelessly Why shouldn’t she She is flawless Every person’s dream But like us all she has a flaw She is made of mirrors She reflects … Continue reading
A Place With You
BY: GRACE FEELEY “Happiness is only real when shared.” -Christopher McCandless Dear You, I went to the place we used to love today. I let myself relax in the cool … Continue reading
Untitled
BY LIYA FOUCHE To you I’m only a body, something to temporarily hold your interest, you can make me feel so nonexistent. The way you distance yourself when things become … Continue reading
Requiem XII
BY RACHEL DAI we trade stories into the night often on this swing set, like a pendulum. yesterday it was biff loman. today it is atlas: it began the day … Continue reading
An Ode to You
BY MICAELA FRANCIS The smell of your cologne, The sound of your voice, The smile that graced your face, It’s all I truly want. Your presence made everything make sense. … Continue reading
I Am a Woman
BY STEPHANIE CHRISTIE You complimented my kindness, my ambition, And left me hopeful for this romantic ignition. I was infatuated with your heart, your mind and your soul, You made … Continue reading
Love
BY MALIYA BROOKS SIGHT – Love looks the way a bare bush decorated in winter frost looks. It looks like a twig engulfed in an icy coating. It looks like … Continue reading
Insatiable Pacific
BY GREGORY HIRSCH The love between Angelina and George was never to abate. George was not new to the feeling of love but ignorant when he felt it for another … Continue reading
What I Learned
BY ALLY I didn’t know what I wanted before I heard it. I didn’t know it was something I was capable of wanting until then. When I was told that … Continue reading
Red is My Favorite Color
BY ELLA SHACKELFORD I honestly didn’t realize how hard it would be to get blood out of overalls until I was doing it myself. Especially white overalls. Charlie once told me … Continue reading
Deaf-ying the Odds
BY KRISHALI KUMAR What the hell is in this coffee? It tastes like dirt steeped in gasoline. I knew I shouldn’t have ventured from the safe embrace of the Starbucks … Continue reading
The Day I Didn’t Die
BY SOPHIE KOSIBA Every time anything touched my skin, the searing pain reverberated across my entire body. It would always cause me to wince or sometimes scream and even more … Continue reading
The Storm of the Heart + three more
BY CECILY LOWE The Storm of the Heart The darkness That masks these crystal skies Is the shadow Of he who is devine. Relentless tears fall, As lonely … Continue reading
blue…
BY LAURA CUNNINGHAM one, i love you, two i cannot help this hope, the geese spill the season from the river, you don’t look up you just stay squinting and … Continue reading
11:25
BY KATELYNN KARNER The bell still rang at 11:25. Lying there in front of the east wing, Ansley could see her old freshmen year locker from the distance and, for … Continue reading
Nights and Days Without You, Brother + One More
BY TAYLOR BURGIN Nights and days without you, brother I must learn to be careful— and what I mean is it’s the absence of you that matters, … Continue reading
Pancake Batter Lips
BY ZOE NELMS It’s not easy loving a loser like Johnny His goatee looks like coffee stains on stubbly skin and he talks funny, walks funny, acts funny when … Continue reading
65 m.y.a. + Three More
BY ISABELLA TURCINOVIC 65 m.y.a. Light comes to catch wing arthritic ends hardened similar to Pachycephalosaur. Crown for the reptile a head ever-changing, no three species. Ditto for Triceratops. … Continue reading
Hypertext High School Writers Contest, Honorable Mention: Miya Bruce
Garden By Miya Bruce Sitting in the dewy grass on a still Saturday morning, I breathe in the fresh, cold air allowing it to tickle the hairs in my nose. … Continue reading
Hypertext High School Writers Contest, Honorable Mention: Angel Lopez
Time Seems to Slow By Angel Lopez There were six crosswalks: four to connect the streets and two that ran diagonally from one street corner to the other to make … Continue reading
Hypertext High School Writers Contest, Honorable Mention: Jayy Prather
Dreamscape By Jayy Prather The Moon The girl with the moon kissed purple hair and the sun caressed pale, white skin. She’s been thrown in the loony bin for unspeakable … Continue reading
3rd Place Fiction, Hypertext High School Writers Contest: Dahlia Marcia
Five Feet from the Door by Dahlia Marcia There was a little house in the middle of nowhere. It was two stories high and made of lovely red bricks with … Continue reading
Skin
by Jay Cruz Writer’s Statement: I created this piece when I began to address my dysphoria; it was my way of laying it all out on the table and realize … Continue reading
About Me and You
BY CHEYA WASHINGTON The streets were tucked into bed with a blanket of white snow, but that didn’t stop the anxiety from pumping through your veins. You were walking down … Continue reading
Druggie Love
BY KIMBERLY FLORES Dear Lord, I’m on my knees, can you hear my prayers? Don’t leave me this time… I lost who I was and became a part of him. … Continue reading
The Painting
BY MICHAEL GLENN Smashing into the dorm room flinging the calendar and all its notes across the perfectly clean carpet, I threw my bags towards the desk and collapsed upon … Continue reading
Five Poems
BY DAKOTA SHOEMAKER Forever Your Vassal I am tired of being tired. You have stressed me to the extent of resentment. Helped pick my skin raw, searching for … Continue reading
