So we were all at Kaia’s house dressed up like Alice in Wonderland: I was Alice (of course), Kaia was the Cheshire Cat, Bella was the White Rabbit, and Carly was the Queen of Hearts.
We had just finished...
The gym smelled like hairspray and cheap perfume.
I coughed, momentarily overcome by the thick scent. I looked around: silver balloons shaped like crowns floated near the stage, and the lights hit...
Noah Wright, Special Contributor
• October 31, 2025
There was no time for anyone to prepare.
In fact, it seemed like all of it happened all at once.
In a split second, one third of the world’s population was gone.
How could 2.6 billion...
There is something inside my house.
It was late winter night. It was dark far too early this time of year, making me sleepy earlier, my brain thinking that it was closer to 9 p.m. at 7 p.m. It didn’t...
I can’t talk to my owner Ashley. She’s my best friend. She has pretty long blonde hair, pale skin, and brown eyes. But I can't talk to her -- all I can do is wag my tail and give her my puppy eyes...
Amelie Baca, Fiction Contributor
• October 31, 2023
I walk slowly down the street watching the house numbers get smaller and smaller until I can no longer see what they say. Each house is the same beige building with a large tree growing out front, its...
Who else sat here? What did they talk about?
“Anton…”
What was so screwed up about them, that they too had to sit here for over an hour?
“Antonyo.”
Ugh…how much longer is this?
I...
The streets of Brazil with many tourists (people cutouts) where DONNA, a cop, watches the tourists and REGGY, a young adult wearing a coat hiding a stuff animal monkey and bananas, enters.
REGGY: Okay,...
At opening, we see Clark behind the counter of the new Circle K. Clark is energetic and enthusiastic, in many ways seeming larger than life because of his huge animations. Enter a tired Munamis, trudging...
“Hey, are you ready to go?”
“Yeah, let me just grab my keys. Everything is in the car, right?”
“Yes, I put everything in there, don't worry.”
We jumped in the car and started driving off.
“This...
“SOS” Zoe sketched in the stand with a stick that had fallen from the trees. Valerie rolled her eyes at her sister. The two were stuck at their grandma’s house on the coast of Rhode Island for the...
I sat and watched in horror as the exterior of my home and the temple collapsed on itself. The air surrounding it was foggy with dust and ash, the bright orange flames of the fire consuming the buildings...
