The People’s Beach
Another flying alcapurria clears the windowsill and is caught by an
outstretched hand. The peddler has adorned his truck with lovely little posies sprouting from old tires, and an American...
Frankly, I don’t remember much
About what happened in the past.
All I know was that it was Thursday,
The day before the last.
Everyone was sharing joy, for
Friday was nearly here.
But what we didn’t kno...
Let’s be honest. We have been through a lot.
We went through a lot of sleepy mornings dragging ourselves out of bed to wake up at an impossibly early hour, and to walk through the low hum of the crowd of fellow zombies ...
To be frank, Its hard to remember much about my entire senior year. So much has happened outside of school I sort of lost track, and everything went by In a flash I hardly could keep up. But I do remember In the first semester,...
“Did you hear Jenny Ma wants to join the Army?” “What? She’s a GIRL. And she’s Asian. Why doesn’t she want to be a doctor or something NORMAL for her?”
Conversations like this swarmed the halls of my high school once...
I’ve looked forward to this year since the moment I came into high school as a freshman. I was full of excitement and anxiety as each year of high school passed. Seniors that graduate before you always say “the four years go...
Silence. Of the purest and wildest nature, so impalpable a concept, that its occurrence leaves me breathless—the speech and thought stunned out of me. I am no more than an oval body and a pair of warp-less, white wings, gliding...
My Spanish teacher is at the front of the classroom when I hear a boy with dark skin being taunted, "How was your trip to Paris? Blow up anything?" My hands quiver, realizing that the comment is alluding to the bombing at Pari...
At Shaker High School, ice hockey is a winter sport that has always lacked the amount of kids needed for a full hockey team. Even though hockey is a very popular sport in other parts of the country. It is mainly Basketball that ha...
