Category: General Content
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Here, He Is
Written By: Hannah HuGraphic By: Anya Verma There is smoke curling out the bathroom door. Outside, the din of the party crackles like static and I fall into it, tingles spreading across my neck and fingers as I approach– there is a man here. His bespectacled eyes gleam in the light. His face glows like…
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Perhaps Tomorrow
Written By: Ella OberleGraphic By: Anya Verma …fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty. I smile at the flowers in my hand–yellows, pinks, purples, and reds. I tuck them into the woven basket just like Mama showed me, careful to not bend their fragile petals. She has taught me a lot, like how to tell…
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Hersilia
Written By: Peyton HaysGraphic By: Audrey Pomeroy [Non Roma sumus. Nos, silentia affectae, sumus mulieres quae id aedificamus.] Apollo’s sun burned at noon, casting away all shadows from the heart of the city. There was not even a sliver of darkness that stained the white marble that paved the way to the city gates. It…
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Impending Clash
Written By: Sridevi HariharanGraphic By: Izzy GavinA disintegrating nation A woman who had sworn to protect it once, rebelled against its flourishThe war she saw over, her cape flowing like moving waterThe cavalry leapt across the river bankThe moon vanished into the great abyss of cloud, and on the ground remained a lack of chatter…
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A Yearner’s Guide to the Rom-Com
Written By: Aashka ShroffGraphic By: Jessye Fan I’ve been on a huge rom-com kick lately. I’m no expert, but I can say with confidence that there’s always a set of tropes that sews together the classic rom-com. Obviously, they have their own distinctive factors that separate them—otherwise, we’d be in nasty intellectual property law violation…
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Many Thanks
Written By: Izzy GavinGraphic By: Aruna Muthupillai To my Books: Thank you. Thank you for learning to love my tears, for enduring each frantic dog ear and scribbled remark. I grip at your pages, so gentle, so fragile, as if they will let go and blow away, lost to the wind like a whisper of…
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Memento Mori
Written By: Audrey PomeroyGraphic By: Jessye Fan Any other 9-5, (albeit with different hours). You wake up, dig the crust from the corners of your eyes, pour a cup of coffee, and drag yourself to work. You clock in, you clock out. Some of us love our job, some of us hate it, none of…
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Echoes in the Halls: Testimonies from a Haunted Home
Written By: Iliana TangarovaGraphic By: Aruna Muthupillai Part 1: Whispers from the Past SPIRIT 1: I wasn’t always a whisper, you know,Once a breath and a heartbeat,Now I linger in sighs.This house, it kept my secrets,Each creaking floorboard a confidant.And when I fell—body cold, breath done—It held me tighter than anyone else ever had.Now I drift…
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A Story of Gods and Documents: Metamorphosis of Text
Written By: Alexander Green Graphic By: Ariadne Danae Chavez Salinas Chapter 1: Imperial Decree The Pale Moon above bears witness to the crimes of its mostdevoted follower, a God forced to punish man: A God, fallen from allgrace. Alone shuffles a hunched creature, shifting along the steps to agreat monument. Humans pass by him, quickly…
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How to Cure a Writing Block
by: Temi Idowu Graphics by: Temi Idowu Alas, the inevitable has come. It is time to write a creative, profound, and amazing piece that will be declared by many as “the next best thing since Shakespeare!” It’s your time to walk on that Nobel Prize stage and accept your reward for creating the most outstanding…
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