Category: Issue 4
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The Dream Catchers- Kathnie Fabre
My Mother has always told me I was a dream catcher.Now my dream is far from reach, it’s in my head and not my hand. Do you know how long it took me to get here?! I can barely fucking breathe without some spineless jerk telling me I am not good enough. I am so…
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Are You Gone? – Kelsey Donnelly
Gentle, blushing white petals fall from a blossoming tree. A trick of the light. Shadows flash like a light switch flicked on and off, and the low hum of a bumble bee rumbles. Of hundreds of bumble bees. Or thunder. Tires on the road above. Electricity that whirs through the power lines. The Washing machine,…
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Space Rescue – Haocheng Yu
Several months ago, the Ares 14 manned rocket completed a 192-day journey and experienced 13 hours of radio silence. Finally, astronauts Charles Milan, Nemo Wilson, and Michael William James successfully landed in the A14 landing zone of the Utopia Planitia on Mars. During their 38-day mission, the three astronauts conducted 37 geological and sample collection…
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“Full Moon Fear” – Padraig Monahan
In the basement, shadows loom, I wait, Against the wall, in silence, contemplate. The moon hides, veiled by clouds so vast, But fortune fades, the shade won’t last. Chained by fate for my transformation, Lost control, brought devastation. Pain surges, as the moonlight cascades, Bones snap, as the wolf invades. Feet elongate, fur begins to…
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“Confessions of a Teenage Girl” – Sophia Leintz
Forgive me Father, for I have sinned. It’s been a lifetime since my last confession. Before you, My knees skinned, My tongue skinned, but unchained, My eyes, hollow, yet holding the runes of Rome. ~ Forgive me Father, as I can feel the soil raining down. Each layer increases like pennies thrown in a wishing…
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My Transition and Transformation to High School – Eli Ziegler
The transition from middle school to high school is something that worries many pre-teens. Trust me, it is scary, but I found my place. I am a freshman at a high school that is 30 minutes away from my house. The name of the school is Notre Dame Prep. Even though I was excited to…
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A Name, Two Dates, and a Sentence – Gemma Rowe
I gaze upon the vastness of rock, cut with clean corners in orderly rows, dotting the fields. Bright fake flowers blow in the cool wind, and a quietness has descended upon the field. This quietness has grabbed onto the rushing river of my thoughts and like a strict mother blows a “shhhhhh” over these waters,…
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“A Mourning Run”- Mary Margaret Nugent
To visit a placeWith memories of youIs to run in the morningIn grass covered in dewIt’s good for meTo take it all inExposure therapyTo feel the prick on my overly sensitive skin It may hurt nowAs I jog and try to keep paceMy heart and lungsThe red in my faceIt had to be done sometimeTo…
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“Until We Meet Again”- Katie Haig
After Solmaz Sharif A red slashacross a poet’s first draft. You alwaystold the truth, my friend, and for that, I am grateful until the end. A paper airplanethat stays afloat a moment more than you hoped.A shout of joy, a laughfor fun. I thought our lifehad only just begun. A thin scarlike a pencil’s sketch,down…
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“The Blooming Dilemma”-Broderick Cole Prendergas
Spend sunny days growing as a blemish in the grassDancing day by day with each delicate and dynamic passMany people gander only to see the flower’s beauty as a weed Commonwealth hasten its life to have wishes dispersed through seed The flower’s abundant parachutes are carried along by the breeze Following the flow of all…
